Best practices for Purview and a federated way of working
Many organizations consult me about how I see Microsoft Purview in relation to data mesh or a federated way of working. They ask me about sharing best practices for establishing a domain-oriented architecture. Let’s explorer in this blogpost how Purview can support your data governance ambitions.
Introduction
Purview is Microsoft’s unified data governance service that enables organization to manage their data at scale. It uses names such as glossary, collections and assets for organizing metadata. Let’s find out what these mean by starting with the basics first. For this, I propose a high-level design that shows an overview of the different metadata areas that are managed within Purview.
Glossary
On the top you, see business metadata, which is about providing (business) context to users. For managing business metadata, Purview provides a Glossary: a vocabulary for business users. At first sight, a glossary is a list of business terms with definitions and relations to other items. The glossary is important for maintaining and organizing information about your data. It captures domain knowledge of information that is commonly used, communicated, and shared in organizations as they’re conducting business.
