Azure Data Governance

Govern, protect, and manage your data estate while enabling data consumers to access valuable, trustworthy data management with Azure Purview.

Delivering Repeatable Trust and Control

Data governance is an ongoing program that ensures data and technology are treated as valuable assets. It is a framework for business units to work together to build confidence in and credibility of data and data assets. Data Governance provides an organizational home for data and asset–related issues and a means of imposing controls. Data Governance delivers repeatable trust and control of data and technology needed for successful business in the digital era. 

Why Embrace Data Governance with Azure Purview?

Address Common Data Pain Points for Organizations

Data governance can reduce large costs inefficiencies in report preparation and reconciliation. It acts as a trusted foundational layer for business intelligence, advanced analytics and AI/ML projects. It eliminates problems in interpreting data by ensuring that everyone across the company is speaking the same business vocabulary. With this single version of the truth companies can be confident that report definitions are aligned from the department level up to the C-suite. Otherwise, companies will need to contend with inefficient strategic decision making or siloed efforts and methodologies that can have conflicting outcomes.

Impose Controls on Data

Sometimes data needs an appropriate level of control placed on it. This is often for risk management or regulatory compliance. Sometimes the controls are imposed to maintain privacy such as personally identifiable information (PII) demanded by GDPR, PIPEDA and Bill 64. Another use is to provide security, such as payment card information (PCI), which places strict controls on access, permissions, storage and transmission of data.

Metadata Management

This is an effective way to jump-start the journey to a holistic data governance practice and ​gain immediate data transparency benefits. You gain a centralized view of your company’s data estate, enabling business users to know what is data available​. Companies understand what systems, applications, and databases contribute what data elements​ allowing faster access to data​, faster systems development​ with the added bonus of identification of sensitive and private PII information that needs safeguarding​. Metadata management is also a steppingstone to larger governance discussions.

Data Lineage

Data governance often attempts to classify and define data lineage. One of the platform features of Microsoft Purview is the ability to show the lineage between datasets created by data processes. Systems like Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Share, and Power BI capture the lineage of data as it moves. Custom lineage reporting is also supported via Apache Atlas hooks and REST API.​ Metadata collected in Microsoft Purview from enterprise data systems are stitched across to show an end-to-end data lineage.

Azure Data Governance Objectives

Data governance brings together a set of data management methodologies or disciplines that work together to ensure your data is:

Understood​

Mastered​

Trusted​

Accessible ​

Secure ​

Insightful

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How Does Azure Purview Help?

Azure Purview is a growing system of tools to encompass the entire data governance space. It is built on the Apache Atlas API and with native integrations to other parts of the intelligent data platform such as Azure Synapse, Power BI, and Azure SQL Server. Azure Purview gives users the ability to catalog on-premises assets, Azure and other cloud assets and even common SaaS applications.

With this effortless discovery of trusted data, a data map can be built up to help uncover data insights on assets across the organization. Azure Purview serves data producers and consumers through its catalog while enabling data engineers and SMEs to enforce data quality and master record management. Purview also appeals to data officers and stewards entrusted with ensuring data use governance is followed and that risk assessment and management procedures are followed.

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