Data Governance

Holistically manage data across your enterprise for enhanced visibility, searchability, and governance.

Inventory your data environment to create a single data map and catalog that includes structured and unstructured data from on-premise, cloud, and hybrid sources. Implement data governance policies and procedures with Microsoft Purview data governance tools to enhance visibility and searchability for Microsoft, non-Microsoft, and third-party cloud data sources.

Key Features

Create and implement a data governance strategy that meets the unique needs of legal, security, and IT stakeholders.
Balance the level of effort to implement data strategies with the legal risk associated with non-compliance working with a team that understands the real-world implications of security tradeoffs.

Understand your data landscape with a visual representation of data locations across your organization using a full data map, inclusive of Microsoft and non-Microsoft data sources.
Organize and describe data within its business context with a searchable data catalog.
Track data’s journey from its origin to its destination, including any transformations, with data lineage.
Find PII and sensitive data duplicated or leaked into other systems.

Define business terms and their meanings, such as annual contract value and annual recurring revenue, with a full business glossary.
Identify and label sensitive information within data repositories with automated scanning, classification, and labeling.
Simplify data management by packaging curated data into products for specific business units or purposes.

Meet regulatory requirements by applying policies and processes to protect data and ensure availability.
Improve data accuracy, cleanliness, and usability by implementing data quality controls.
Allow appropriate collaboration between data stewards, data owners, and data consumers with role-based access controls (RBAC).
Maintain and extend your data governance framework following expert-led training.