What’s available in the Microsoft Purview governance portal?

Microsoft Purview’s solutions in the governance portal provide a unified data governance service that helps you manage your on-premises, multi-cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) data. The Microsoft Purview governance portal allows you to:

• Create a holistic, up-to-date map of your data landscape with automated data discovery, sensitive data classification, and end-to-end data lineage.
• Enable data curators to manage and secure your data estate.
• Empower data consumers to find valuable, trustworthy data.

Microsoft Purview automates data discovery by providing data scanning and classification as a service for assets across your data estate. Metadata and descriptions of discovered data assets are integrated into a holistic map of your data estate. Atop this map, there are purpose-built apps that create environments for data discovery, access management, and insights about your data landscape.

App	Description
Data Map	Makes your data meaningful by graphing your data assets, and their relationships, across your data estate. The data map used to discover data and manage access to that data.
Data Catalog	Finds trusted data sources by browsing and searching your data assets. The data catalog aligns your assets with friendly business terms and data classification to identify data sources.
Data Estate Insights	Gives you an overview of your data estate to help you discover what kinds of data you have and where.
Data Sharing	Allows you to securely share data internally or cross organizations with business partners and customers.

Microsoft Purview advantages

The catalog makes data sources easily discoverable and understandable by the users who manage the data.

Microsoft Purview provides a cloud-based service into which you can register data sources. During registration, the data remains in its existing location, but a copy of its metadata is added to Microsoft Purview, along with a reference to the data source location. The metadata is also indexed to make each data source easily discoverable via search and understandable to the users who discover it.