MetricStream vs Osano

About Osano

Osano sells a privacy platform for cookie consent, data subject requests and privacy assessments across 95+ laws. Osano adds subject rights, assessments and website checks on the same platform as consent. Osano addresses teams where privacy often lands on someone who handles marketing, IT or legal. Depending on the plan, Osano adds a certified privacy expert, an implementation expert and a customer success manager. Osano's privacy team monitors the law 365 days a year.^[1][5]

Osano shows the right banner for each visitor's location, honors opt-outs and Global Privacy Control, and keeps a record of every choice. Osano localizes cookie consent banners for 45+ languages and 95+ regulations across 50+ countries. Osano keeps detailed consent logs that make consent data visible, accessible and auditable. Osano processes and tracks do not sell and do not share across jurisdictions with a few toggles. Osano scans a site to discover and classify its pixels and cookies, and includes AI that recognizes cookies for classification. Osano is added with a single line of JavaScript and works with any website platform. Osano lets customers customize the cookie banner with an editor or custom CSS. Osano offers Cookie Consent together with Unified Consent & Preference Hub for privacy teams and other consent owners. Osano's consent and preference management collects, processes and implements user consent data. Osano consent management integrates with Vanta and other GRC solutions. Osano provides reporting at the state, province or country level.^{[1][5][6][8][9][10]}

Osano privacy request forms adjust rights and language based on the user's location. Osano automates simple workflows that spot duplicates and streamline simple processing tasks. Osano automates task assignments and packaging and offers preconfigured forms. Osano uses a secure messaging portal to communicate and transfer data, and packages data in a human-readable format. Osano integrates with over 100 common data store vendors out of the box.^[10][11][12]

Osano Data Mapping is a privacy-focused data mapping solution. Osano data mapping connects to a single sign-on provider, cloud database, CDP and other sources to discover stores of personal information and assign them priority scores. Osano provides a visual map of data stores and analyzes data store characteristics to identify data stores by risk and effort. Osano's centralized assessment tool offers standards-based, pre-built and customizable assessments and notifies stakeholders of pending tasks. Osano offers assessment templates built on standards such as NIST and ISO. Osano provides templates and workflows for privacy assessments such as Record of Processing Activity (RoPAs).^{[1][6][9][13]}

Osano Vendor Privacy Risk Management helps customers identify, assess, monitor and mitigate threats to their privacy compliance. Osano assesses vendors using a model with 163 privacy criteria and produces numeric scores. Osano provides a Vendor Score, alerts on vendor lawsuits and privacy policy changes, and pre-built vendor assessment templates. Osano provides an automated system for tracking changes in vendor risk scores, policy changes and legal histories. Osano collates privacy documents and reports on fourth-party vendors. When Osano Cookie Consent discovers site tags on a website, Osano searches for associated vendors and adds them to the vendor inventory. Data stores discovered by Osano Data Mapping with an associated vendor are added to the inventory. Osano provides privacy scores, lawsuit and policy alerts, sub-processor discovery and vendor assessment templates.^[1][6][14]

Osano asks customers to alert it within 24 hours of a notice from a data protection authority. Osano's internal teams align and loop in legal counsel, compliance experts and technical specialists. Osano will pay up to $500k of fines for violations resulting from the Osano platform. Osano automatically generates records for consent, data rights, assessments, vendors and SOC 2 frameworks. Osano serves as the required GDPR representative for its customers. Osano Compliance Services International, a subsidiary of Osano, is based in Dublin and staffed by privacy experts and attorneys.^[10][15]

Osano describes its platform as an all-in-one privacy compliance platform that automates critical processes for compliance in 50+ countries. Osano says it was built to help companies of all sizes achieve global compliance. Osano offers tech companies consent management across state and regional levels. Osano addresses enterprises where the volume of DSARs is too high for a manual process.^{[1][9][10][12][13][15][16]}