Microsoft Purview is a unified data governance solution that helps you understand all of your on-premises, multi cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) data and maintain control over its usage. With the Microsoft Purview solution, you can create a detailed, up-to-date map of your data landscape with sensitive data classification, automated data discovery, and end-to-end data lineage. Not only does it enable data curators to easily secure your data, but it also allows data consumers to find valuable, trustworthy data.
Microsoft Azure Purview is designed with:
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Data Map: Microsoft Purview Data Map provides the foundation for data discovery and effective data governance. Azure Purview Data Map is a cloud-native PaaS service that captures metadata about enterprise data present in analytics and operation systems on premises and in the cloud.
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Data Catalog: Microsoft Purview Data Catalog finds trusted data sources by browsing and searching your data assets. The data catalog aligns your assets with business terms and data classification to identify data sources.
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Data Insights: Microsoft Purview Data Insights gives you an overview of your data estate to help you discover what kinds of data you have and where.
Microsoft Purview Features
Microsoft Purview has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:
- Automated data discovery, lineage identification, and data classification
- Insights into the location and movement of sensitive data across your entire data estate
- Unified map of your data assets and their relationships for more effective data governance
- Glossary with business and technical search terms to aid data discovery
Microsoft Purview Benefits
Some of the benefits of using Microsoft Azure Purview include:
- Automate and manage metadata from hybrid sources.
- Classify data using built-in and custom classifiers and Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels.
- Label sensitive data consistently across SQL Server, Azure, Microsoft 365, and Power BI.
- Easily integrate all your data systems using Apache Atlas APIs.
- Search for data using technical or business terms.
- Easily understand data by browsing associated technical, business, semantic, and operational metadata.
- Quickly identify the sensitivity level of data.
- Scan your Power BI environment and Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces with a few clicks.
- Automatically publish all discovered assets and lineage to the Purview Data Map.
- Connect Microsoft Azure Purview to Azure Data Factory instances to automatically collect data integration lineage.
- Quickly determine which analytics and reports already exist without reinventing the wheel.
Reviews from Real Users
PeerSpot reviewer Kelly B., Solution Specialist at LobsterPot Solutions, says, “We're building a new system from scratch for our clients and wanted to include data governance. Their solution is hosted in Azure and it seemed logical to go with something that fits with that. Purview has a pretty good interface and I'm satisfied with what the solution does and the price it's being sold at. It integrates well with Azure technologies.” She also adds, “The initial setup was very easy, that's part of the appeal.”
