Little warning on the new Purview suite for M365BP

Microsoft introduced a highly needed and expected compliance suite add-on for Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Microsoft Purview Suite for Business Premium: $10/user/month

Microsoft 365 BP are unable to add Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance suite $12/user/month and forced to move to M365E3 to be able to add this product.

So as a Microsoft partner I was delighted to see that Microsoft introduced this new product and made it possible to give SMB customers the tools they need to comply with all kinds of regulations.

BUT: What a disappointment it is, this new product. It is a lame strip down version of the E5 Compliance suite and missing essential functionality that regulated SMB customers badly need. What the was going on in de mind of the product manager who is responsible for this product. Besides missing crucial functionality like Compliance Manager, Compliance Portal and Privilege Access Management it also misses in product features.

Some examples:

Data Loss Prevention: Great for protection your sensitive information leaking out of your organisation, but with a little more investigation, I found out that Administrative Units is not supported

Information Protection: Automatic Labels is not supported

Insider Risk management: No Adaptive Protection

Compliance Manager: No Policies, No Alerts

DSPM for AI: No Policies

So, Microsoft come on, you can do better than this and embrace SMB’s more seriously and make E5 compliance available like you did with E5 security for M365BP users and stop with this lame and incomplete product.
My recommendation to M365BP customers who need Compliance add-on, don’t buy this new suite, unless you don’t need the above functionality.