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Benj R.
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What do you like best about Transcend?

The flexibility of their integrations is phenomenal.

It's allowed us to fully automate our entire DSR flow saving us hours of work per week

Their support team is quick to respond and extremely helpful in helping things run smoothly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Transcend?

The web UI is fairly slow. Occasionally taking 3 mins to load a single page.

Bulk actions are limited without utilizing Transcend's API

Initial implementation takes a long time. This is less on Transcend, and more on the variations between other tools API availability and ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Transcend solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's managing all our consent management, cookie tracking, data privacy, and dsar programs.

It has made helped our privacy stance mature way more quickly than it would have otherwise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Szuyin Leow of Transcend

Hi Benj - We are so proud to help enable your organization's privacy maturity journey! We are very passionate about delivering a streamlined and smooth customer experience, so I will follow-up with you directly to learn more about which UI you have experienced latency issues with and what types of bulk actions you ideally would like to see enabled via the admin dash. We are grateful for your partnership and feedback!

-Szuyin, VP of Customer Experience at Transcend

Transcend Overview

What is Transcend?

Transcend is the all-in-one privacy platform that makes it easy to encode privacy across your tech stack. From data discovery to universal opt-outs, we help leading brands easily handle today's privacy projects and rest easy for whatever lies ahead. Trusted by top brands like Groupon, Brex, Robinhood and Clubhouse, Transcend offers a variety of solutions for your privacy needs: Transcend Data Discovery & Classification offers silo discovery, data classification, and ROPA compliance reporting. It is the only solution that ensures the systems discovered in your data map are comprehensively included in user deletion, access or modification requests. Transcend DSR Automation is the easiest and most comprehensive way to delete, return, or modify a person's data or preferences across your tech stack. Transcend Consent Management is the only solution that governs both client-side and backend user consent for complete compliance, with custom consent experiences for any region, device, or domain. Transcend Assessments mitigates data processing risks with smarter, collaborative Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), Transfer Impact Assessment (TIAs) and AI Risk management, directly embedded into your data map.

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Transcend is the next-generation privacy and AI governance platform that transforms how enterprises understand and manage personal data, automate privacy tasks, assess risks, and oversee AI systems.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Transcend's solutions moves companies into the future of data privacy, with freed up resources, enhanced regulatory stances for the laws of today and tomorrow, and stronger relationships with their customers through respectful and compliant data transparency, consent, and control.

With Transcend's industry-leading software, companies go far beyond the patchwork compliance and manual offerings of today to an easy, efficient and seamless privacy program that flows across their tech stack, handling everything from the Global Privacy Control signal to unstructured data deletion and paving the way for the future of privacy.


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Transcend is a data privacy platform that helps organizations manage and automate their compliance with data privacy regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA. By providing tools for data subject requests, data mapping, and automated workflows, Transcend enables businesses to enhance their privacy practices and build trust with their customers. Their solutions are designed to streamline the complexities of data privacy management, making it easier for companies to protect personal data while ensuring regulatory compliance. For more information, visit their website at https://transcend.io.


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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Transcend?

It seems to me to be the most advanced technology for handling consent management since it interacts in a middle layer rather than browser. There is fairly good support via our consultant, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Transcend?

The documentation is somewhat lacking in details, specifics and entire concepts. The cookie and data flow triage process is much more involved, time consuming and difficult than we were led to believe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Transcend solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping up-to-date with newly arrising regional legal privacy requirements. Our previous platform couldn't manage regions (such as states and countries). Also, I feel more confident with this robust solution that we will not likely break any privacy policy laws/guidelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Augusto G.
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What do you like best about Transcend?

I love the platform and how easy is to integrate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Transcend?

The chance to loose campaing tracking, but this is the trade off to have this solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Transcend solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are complying with legal regulations regarding cookies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sung (Pete) N.
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What do you like best about Transcend?

Transcend has removed a complicated manual process that was being completed by agents and automated it. We have lessened our non-compliance risk due to privacy laws. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Transcend?

Implementation took longer than originally planned Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Transcend solving and how is that benefiting you?

Transcend was able to automate our organization's data privacy management. Prior to Transcend, this was a complicated manual process due to multiple external platforms that our organization used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Szuyin Leow of Transcend

Hi Pete! We are thrilled to be your partner in simplifying your team's processes and decreasing your organization's overall risk. We are constantly striving to find ways to deliver value to our customers faster and have been continuing to optimize our implementation approach to enable customers to launch as efficiently as possible. Thank you so much for your feedback!

- Szuyin, VP of Customer Experience at Transcend

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What do you like best about Transcend?

Trascend's support team made the implementation process very easy, and the ongoing support we've recieved has made it simple to stay on top of any updates that we've needed to make. Labeling our data sources is really easy to do within the UI, and it's made it very straightforward for us to stay on top of our consent management processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Transcend?

We haven't had any issues working with the platform so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Transcend solving and how is that benefiting you?

With the industry-wide focus on data privacy and consent, Transcend has been really helpful making sure our website is compliant with all rules and regulations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Mike Farrell of Transcend

Thanks so much for leaving a review—we’re thrilled the experience you’ve had so far has been so positive.

- Mike (CTO and Co-Founder, Transcend)

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What do you like best about Transcend?

GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA are regulations support, anonymization of user data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Transcend?

sometimes support is delayed so need to figure out solution which can impact business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Transcend solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its solving the above selected areas. different metric we are doing with this integrations are :

Measure cost for running transcend anonymization (all tasks)

# of requests in Skipped status and created > 2 weeks ago

Average time to respond to transcend for a request (this may be in transcend UI)

number processed each week

number skipped each week Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Szuyin Leow of Transcend

We are thrilled to hear that we have helped your organization address these important compliance areas! Thank you so much for taking the time to provide this feedback. Regarding our support turnaround times, our typical first response time for our Premier support customers is ~20 minutes or less during our business hours, and generally it is our support team's mission to be as timely and thorough as possible. If you are not satisfied with your current support experience, please do not hesitate to reach out to your Transcend account executive so we can explore potential options to ensure you're getting the support you need!

-Szuyin, VP of Customer Experience at Transcend

Verified User in Consumer Goods
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What do you like best about Transcend?

Transcend keeps everything privacy-related within the platform and saves my team hundreds of hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Transcend?

Things tend to break because Transcend integrates with so many external tools, but their support team is always quick to help support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Transcend solving and how is that benefiting you?

Transcend allows us to remove data from all platforms and keeps all privacy requests in one spot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Szuyin Leow of Transcend

YES to hundreds of hours saved! We love to hear when we can help make this sort of impact. While integration updates and reconnections will likely continue to be a reality of our highly-integrated solution, we are always thinking about how we can make this process even smoother and more efficient for our customers. Thank you for taking the time to share this review!

-Szuyin, VP of Customer Experience at Transcend

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What do you like best about Transcend?

Transcend's built in consent manager preferences as well as their DSAR tool made implementation simple. It also means that on an ongoing basis we are able to keep tabs on our processors and ensure they are appropriately categorized for consent purposes. Customer support was super responsive and helpful. Integrations are continously being added and updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Transcend?

Many of the "integrations" are just email notifications, which is frustrating. Hopefully these will mature with time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Transcend solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making some of our privacy processes user friendly and accessible to users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Szuyin Leow of Transcend

Thank you for this feedback! We strive to make it as easy as possible for our customers to meet their privacy compliance goals, and we are so happy to hear that Transcend has helped you make privacy more accessible for your users.

Regarding your integration feedback, there are a few different reasons why we are unfortunately not able to offer automated/programmatic integrations for some vendors: 1) the vendor does not currently have APIs available for certain DSR types, 2) the vendor requires emails to be sent in a specific template, or 3) the vendor requires DSRs to be submitted via a self-serve dashboard which requires someone from your team to login through their browser. That said, it is also our goal to mature as many of these integrations over time as possible, and we are continuously partnering with other vendors to help advise them on how to facilitate an API integration between Transcend and their platforms.

-Szuyin, VP of Customer Experience at Transcend

Petr H.
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What do you like best about Transcend?

Before Transcend, it took us a few hours to process and compile data privacy requests from our customers or perform data deletion requests from our systems. With Transcend, the processes are now all automated and the whole process requires a few minutes to complete by us, while Transcend does all the heavy lifting for us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Transcend?

Transcend is still a bit younger company and as such, the product may not be as polished as one would wish. Mostly in regards to some integrations or implementation to less known cloud providers. Transcend is constantly adding more integrations though and their support team was always there to help us to resolve any technical challenges, even on a shared Slack channel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Transcend solving and how is that benefiting you?

We mostly use Transcend to provide customers with information about what data we store about them in our internal systems or with our vendors as well as performing data deletion requests using Transcend. We are also currently exploring their Consent manager feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nat F.
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What do you like best about Transcend?

I just bought Transcend for the second time. At my previous company, it allowed us to automate thousands of privacy requests, which saved headcount and reduced time spent on manual tasks. The implementation was incredibly helpful, including custom engineering from one of the founders to solve a couple tricky integrations. We are in the process of implementing Transcend at my new company and expect similar excellent results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Transcend?

No dislikes to date. The team and the product have been great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Transcend solving and how is that benefiting you?

Transcend helps us address data privacy governance and administration in an efficient and compliant manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Szuyin Leow of Transcend

We absolutely LOVE when we get to partner with amazing customers like you at multiple orgs, Nat! We are excited to continue working with you to deliver more excellent results. Thanks so much for taking the time to provide us with your feedback!

- Szuyin, VP of Customer Experience at Transcend

KB
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What do you like best about Transcend?

Transperancy in the user's accounts when needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Transcend?

Multiple level of access being inititated with in the same tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Transcend solving and how is that benefiting you?

Transcend provides insight details of the user's account and helps us to take decisions based on the deletion requests made with in the accounts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Szuyin Leow of Transcend

We are proud to power your organization's deletion request process -- thank you so much for your review, Kamran!

-Szuyin, VP of Customer Experience at Transcend