By 2025, the volume of data generated per year is expected to grow to 175 zettabytes (ZB). Yet, most organisations aren’t prepared to properly govern all this data. In fact, a 2019 report commissioned by Microsoft found that just 14 percent of C-level executives in the Middle East and Africa believe their company is highly competent with data management.
The number and types of data sources are also multiplying. Data may be stored on-premises, across different public clouds, and in a multitude of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Tracking all this data manually in Excel or in another spreadsheet will become increasingly difficult and cumbersome. In fact, one of the biggest obstacles companies face when it comes to using data is organisational siloes. Yet an organisation that does not have an automated and holistic understanding of its entire data estate across these different sources will find it increasingly challenging to adapt quickly to changing market and regulatory conditions.
Another one of the major hurdles companies face regarding data is governance, particularly who owns the data, how it is stored, how to access it, and who may access it. But data governance is essential to an organisation’s overall strategy for data management and also plays an essential role in regulatory compliance. In fact, it lays the foundation for a data-driven organisation.
Recognising that the need for a comprehensive data management and governance service has never been stronger, Microsoft built Azure Purview, a unified data governance solution that helps organisations achieve a complete understanding of their data regardless of whether it’s housed on-premises in services like SQL Server and Oracle, in different clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3, or in SaaS applications like Salesforce. You can easily create a unified map of your data assets and their relationships with automated data discovery and sensitive data classification, get insight into the location and movement of sensitive data across your hybrid landscape, and empower data consumers to find valuable data through a data catalogue.
Azure Purview further extends your existing Microsoft and Azure investments by allowing you to quickly and easily add data governance capabilities to your current workloads. Azure Purview captures the lineage relationships between data assets all the way from raw data to business insights. These relationships are captured automatically and kept up to date with turnkey integrations of Azure Purview with SQL Server, Microsoft Power BI, Azure SQL, and more.
It’s exciting to see customers rapidly adopting Azure Purview for their data management needs. Among early adopters is Petrofac, a leading service provider for the energy industry. Petrofac designs, builds, operates, and maintains energy assets worldwide and it offers highly specialised engineering expertise to the world’s leading integrated and independent energy companies.
“The most exciting thing we discovered about Azure Purview so far is a powerful mix of built-in features from Microsoft and extendibility, which native Atlas API provides. With such a combination it is possible not only getting first class support for the majority of commonly used components, but also customising the catalogue to reflect Data Platform architecture and company standards.”
– Siarhei Liashkevich, Data Platform Architect, Petrofac
We are excited to announce that Azure Purview is generally available in several data centres across the world. Every organisation can now build a unified data governance solution to maximise the value of their data in the cloud.
Get started today
- Watch the “Maximise the Value of Your Data in the Cloud” digital event on-demand for demos and deep dives on Azure Purview features.
- Get started quickly and easily with a new Azure Purview account to try the generally available features.
- Explore the “Introduction to Azure Purview” MS Learn module to familiarise yourself with our data governance solution.
- Check this blog for updates starting October 6, 2021, to learn how to use the latest Azure Purview features. We will be posting weekly blogs for a limited time on the Azure Purview Tech Community site and also including a link to the latest Tech Community blog here for quick reference.
