Azure Purview Data Governance Extends Its Purview

• Customers will be able to use Azure’s data governance service, part of the Purview brand, to monitor more of their enterprise data estate.
• Claims of a unified governance portal fall short, as customers still need to work in both Microsoft 365 and Azure administrative portals.

Purview is an umbrella brand covering most of Microsoft’s legal and regulatory compliance services, including data governance. (See the sidebar “Data Governance Primer”.) The Azure-hosted Purview data governance service covers applications and data in Azure, other clouds, and on-premises. The service could be valuable for enterprise data architects and compliance, legal, and risk professionals who need to centrally discover, organize, and manage policies, contents, and flow of data across the enterprise data estate.

Recent improvements extend the reach of Azure Purview data governance to more types of data sources and make Azure Purview a more effective hub for access control. But the Azure Purview service is