Microsoft’s Purview Data Governance is set to launch as a public release on September 1, 2024, and the company describes it as a new “Pureview experience” that should make it easier for organizations to assess their policy, compliance, risk, governance, and security solutions.
Purview Data Governance supports management of both structured and unstructured data serviced by Azure and Microsoft 365, other hybrid cloud architectures as well as plans for emerging SaaS solutions.
Starting September 1, 2024, users will be able to centralize their efforts of labeling, auditing, classifying data, managing lineage across multiple platforms as well as address what Microsoft describes as, four main issues with adopting most centralized governance tools that include:
- Fragmentation—Organizations find themselves using multiple tools to govern data. This can generate blind spots and lead to difficulties maintaining consistent data quality, security, and compliance.
- Labor-intensive tasks—Processes such as data classification, metadata management, and compliance reporting can be manual and time consuming.
- Centralized governance—A centralized approach stifles innovation and leads to shadow business intelligence where business units—often sales and marketing teams—resort to their own unauthorized tools.
- Technical interfaces—A poor user experience for business units can block their participation, leaving the practice of data governance centralized around IT.
Microsoft’s September release coincides with the company boasting that more than 1,500 organizations with an uptick in data governing activities in the first half of 2024.
Since the service launch in early April 2024, usage has skyrocketed by more than 400%, with more than 1,500 commercial entities actively participating in data governance activities.
Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security Platform, Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Priva
As with most things Microsoft, the company managed to stuff its Purview Data Governance with its Copilot LLM support for management of federated data.
Microsoft hopes its data governance solution should tackle four compliance principles that include adopting and imbuing solutions with AI, being business-friendly, and unified.
For those interested in taking Purview for spin, visit the Microsoft Pureview portal for all the details on this new release under the “Data Catalo.
