Microsoft Purview

Data Governance Roadmap

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Data Governance Roadmap Summary
Q3 2024 Q4 2024 Q1 2025
Shipped/High Confidence Good Confidence Directional

• Step-by-step guidance to get started on data • AI assisted and customizable content to assist all users of • Customizable overview page by linking to
governance journey the Data Catalog app navigate the data governance journey organization specific content
Admin and Overview
• Data Governance Admin settings moved to • DG Admin experiences to enable CDO office manage the • DG Admin experience to customize Catalog
Microsoft Purview Solution Settings settings federated data governance practice specific settings for the organization

• Elevated auditing for access management workflows and • Elevated auditing for access management
customizable workflows workflows and customizable workflows
• Enhanced Discovery through Business Concepts

Data Discovery and Access • Enhanced transparency into access status for
• Improved Unified Portal search experience • Improved Unified Portal search experience

consumer
• Easier data product discovery and understanding with • Easier data product discovery and understanding
Copilot-powered experiences with Copilot-powered experiences

• Extended support for custom types

• Enhanced Discovery through Business Concepts • Improved data curation processes and workflows
• Publicly available data catalog APIs
Data Curation • Enhanced tracking of access provisioning status • Apply standardized user-defined attributes to business
by approvers concepts • Enhance and simplify Data Curation processes for
better efficiencies with Copilot
• Multi-cloud and on-premises data sources support to • Multi-cloud and on-premises data sources support
increase data estate coverage and adoption. to increase data estate coverage and adoption
• Enabled customer to measure and monitor data
quality of their data in Databricks Unity Catalog, • Data Quality scoring to quantify the impact on OKR and • Data Quality scoring to quantify the impact on
Google Big Query, Snowflake, and Synapse to business scenarios. OKR and business scenarios
Health Management – Data Quality improve data health of their multi-cloud data
estate • Remediation of Data Quality issues • Remediation of Data Quality issues
• Data Quality scoring to quantify the impact on
OKR and business scenarios
• Data quality rules lifecycle management and reusability in • Data quality rules lifecycle management and
enterprise grade reusability in enterprise grade
• Self-serve insights from Purview OneLake for seamless data • Enhanced traceability to track access, value and
health insights retention of data to improve data estate health
Health Management – Controls, • Self-serve insights from Purview OneLake for
seamless data health insights
Actions, and Reports • Custom controls and reports with actions to derive highest • Custom controls and reports with actions to derive
impact from health actions highest impact from health actions

• Enhanced observability along with additional business

• Deeper understanding of governance practice concepts
Data Observability with richer context around Business Concepts
• Easier & insightful data estate exploration
Overview Page
Value Capability Impact Est. Release Release Type
Get started on data governance solution by
Step-by-step guidance to get started on Use the step-by-step guidance on the Overview page to understand the navigate the data Q3 2024
following step-by-step guidance on GA
data governance journey governance journey for all users Shipped
Overview page

Through chat-like user interaction, data stewards can get guidance from Copilot to set up
AI assisted and customizable content to
Learn data governance practice and logical data estate and related business concepts in a way that aligns to the data Q4 2024
assist all users of the Data Catalog app Public Preview
solution with Microsoft Copilot for Security governance best practices. Data consumers can learn about how to search and find data Good Confidence
navigate the data governance journey
products to meet their business needs.

Customizable overview page by linking Get started on data governance solution by Customizable overview page where admin users can link to their organization specific Q1 2025
GA
to organization specific content curating a custom Overview page content to help navigate their data governance journey Directional

Admin Experiences
Value Capability Impact Est. Release Release Type
Data Governance Admin settings moved to Microsoft Purview Solution Settings for admin Q3 2024
Data Governance Solution Settings GA
users Shipped
DG Admin experiences to enable CDO
office manage the settings federated Select data management SKUs for Data management, see SKU change history for admin GA
Data Governance SKU Selection
data governance practice users Q4 2024
Good Confidence
Visibility into the detailed consumption breakdown after meters are set up, for admin GA
Consumption Reporting Details
users
DG Admin experience to customize
Q1 2025
Catalog specific settings for the Data Catalog Themes Customize data catalog app themes for all users by the admin user GA
Directional
organization
Data Discovery & Access

Est.
Value Capability Impact Release Type
Release
Data catalog consumers can view a list of all published glossary terms, critical data elements
Enterprise glossary view for data catalog consumers Public Preview
• Enhanced Discovery through Business and OKRs in one single view
Concepts
Track and record asset level access provisioning status to create Data product request approver who is also the access provider can record status of access Q3 2024 GA
clarity to approvers and consumers of data product request status provisioned at data asset grain and provide instructions/comments to data consumer. Shipped
• Enhanced transparency into access
status for consumer Detailed data product request status to data consumer, including Inform data consumer of request status changes and detailed instructions to access each
GA
asset level access provisioning status data asset along with provisioning status.
Audit logging and self-service analytics for data product access Audit logging capability for data product access requests and access policies in the Purview
GA
requests and statuses Audit app and self-service analytics of data product access requests for data stewards.
• Elevated auditing for access
management workflows and Enable use of custom workflows authored in Power Automate for data product access
Customize workflows using PowerAutomate integrations Public Preview
customizable workflows management for data access approvers

Data consumers can discover relevant data products in addition to data assets in the Unified Q4 2024
• Improved Unified Portal search Data products in the unified portal search results GA
Portal search experience Good
experience
Confidence
Copilot-powered natural language data product search with Data catalog consumers can use Copilot-powered search with natural language to explain Public Preview
• Easier data product discovery and improved search relevance their intention and use cases to find the data product for their business purposes.
understanding with Copilot-powered
experiences Data consumers can ask Copilot questions about a data product, ask copilot to summarize
Copilot-powered data product understanding to assess fit for
various attributes of the data product to quickly assess if the data product is a good fit for Public Preview
purpose
their business needs.

Incremental notifications to asset level access provisioning status if Notify data consumer of access provisioning status, including consumer view of detailed
Public Preview
provisioned in phases request status

• Elevated auditing for access Revoke data product access by data product owners and corresponding tracking and
Revoke data product access by privileged users GA
management workflows and notification.
customizable workflows
Allow domain level configuration of privacy and compliance reviewer by data product
Configure in product workflows by configuring additional (privacy
• Improved Unified Portal search owners in addition to or replacement of data consumer providing their privacy and Q1 2025 GA
and other) reviewers
experience compliance reviewer details Directional

• Easier data product discovery and Blended search/browse experience for business concepts Single entry point for data catalog search and browse experiences for data consumers Public Preview
understanding with Copilot-powered
experiences
With the addition of chat-like experience, data consumers can interact with Copilot as a
Refine data product search results with feedback and additional
subject matter expert. Copilot will guide users to quickly find the data product for their Public Preview
contexts through Copilot-powered chat-like experience
business needs.
Data Curation
Value Capability Impact Est. Release Release Type
Both data stewards and catalog consumers can visualize business domain and glossary
Tree-view visualization for business domain and glossary term
term hierarchies as a tree-view within the data management and consumption GA
hierarchies
experiences.
Q3 2024
• Simpler and faster data curation Enable data stewards to delete business concepts that are unpublished and do not have Shipped
Basic deletes for business concepts GA
management associations with other concepts.
Data stewards can use this standalone bulk import/migration utility for business
Bulk import for business concepts (partner led) N/A
• Importing business concepts in bulk concepts
Q3 2024
Data stewards can use glossary terms to describe critical data elements, just like they do
Link glossary terms to CDEs High GA
data products today to aid with their discovery in the data catalog
Confidence

Governed asset inventory Data curators can view and manage the list of data assets being governed within Purview Public Preview
Give data stewards the visibility into any duplication that might exist as they go through
Duplication checks while creating business concepts GA
• Improved data curation processes and the various business concept creation experiences
workflows Governance domain owners can set up approvers for publishing data products and Q4 2024
Approval workflows to govern data product and glossary term
glossary terms to the catalog, so stewards are prompted to get the required approvals Good Public Preview
publishes
• Apply standardized user-defined before their changes are published Confidence
attributes to business concepts Custom attributes for basic data types
Admins can centrally define user-defined attributes for basic data types such as text,
numeric types, data, and Boolean, and uniformly apply them to business concept types Private Preview
across governance domains

Governance domain owners can set up approvers for publishing CDEs and OKRs to the
Approval workflows to govern critical data element and OKR
catalog, so stewards are prompted to get the required approvals before their changes are Public Preview
publishes
published
Custom attributes for all data types Admins can centrally define user-defined attributes for all data types including single and
multi-select, and uniformly apply them to business concept types across governance Public Preview
• Extended support for custom types domains
Admins can create custom governance domain types and data product types so they can
• Publicly available data catalog APIs Custom governance domain types and data product types Public Preview
be used across the organization Q1 2025
Enable data stewards to programmatically create, update and delete business concepts Directional
Publish APIs for programmatic access to business concepts Public Preview
• Enhance and simplify Data Curation via APIs
processes for better efficiencies with During the data product curation process, Copilot can take user inputs and leverage
Copilot existing materials to provide default values and recommendations to the data product
Copilot-powered data product curation and data asset selection Public Preview
owner on various attributes of the data product, starting with recommending descriptions
and a list of data assets.

Copilot-powered glossary term generator for governance Data stewards can use Copilot to automatically generate glossary terms for governance
Public Preview
domain domains
Health Management – Data Quality
Value Capability Impact Est. Release Release Type

Native connectors to Azure Databricks, Snowflake, Synapse, and Google Big Query, including open standard formats: Public
Multi-cloud data sources support - both open Q3 S2024
Delta, Iceberg and Parquet. And Integration with Fabric to support all mirrored and short cut data sources in Fabric Preview
standard file and table formats Shipped
Lakehouse.
Multi-cloud and on- Multi-cloud data sources support - both open Support all open standard files and tables for multi-cloud data sources including Delta, Iceberg, Parquet, Avro, and ORC.
premises data sources standard file and table formats Support Databricks UC for AWS, and GCS in addition to Azure and support AWS S3 and Dataverse via native connector. Q4 2024
Public
support to increase data Good Preview
estate coverage and Simplification of data source connection Enable data quality stewards to configure data source connection without requiring any elevated access to the container and Confidence
adoption. configuration folder level.
Self-hosted Integration Runtime (SHIR) to collect data
Increase adoption of Data Quality capability in the FSI and health care industries customers as bulk portion of their data are Q1 2025 Private
quality facts and dimensions to compute data quality
hosted in on-premises storage. Directional Preview
scores for on-premises data sources.
Customizable weight factor to calculate weighted Users will have the ability to add different weight factors in the rule level to calculate the weighted average of data quality Public
average of data quality score score for data asset and roll up weighted average to data product and business domain level. Q4 2024 Preview
Data Quality scoring to
Enable users to set thresholds for DQ rules for data assets, data products, and business domains. Configurable data quality Good
quantify the impact on Public
Configurable Data Quality threshold threshold provides the ability to users to customize the health status threshold at Business Domain, Data Product, and Rule Confidence
OKR and business Preview
level.
scenarios.
Quality score expansion to enable users to see what Users will be able to expand the quality score and its trend to see how each factor contributes to the overall score. This helps Q1 2025 Public
factors contributed to the score users to change the weight factors, rules, and pinpoints areas needing improvement. Directional Preview
Data quality steward will be able to browse data profiling history to compare current profiling results with historical results. This Q3 2024
Historical snapshot of data profiling results GA
enable users to run data profiling in multiple batches if they have more than 50 critical columns in one table or file. Shipped
Remediation of Data Publishing DQ error records to customers data lake to identify issues, perform root cause analysis, document remediation Public
Data Quality error remediation reporting
Quality issues activities, and track report on status. This enable customers to improve their data quality continuously. Q4 2024 Preview
Data Quality alerts will be sent to users email addresses or a group, because of a column-level rule failure that has occurred, Good
Confidence Public
Data Quality alerts for rule exception and/or when the data quality score did not meet predefined expectations. Users will be able to configure the group and alias
Preview
where the alert will be sent. This feature enable DQ stewards to manage DQ proactively.
Continuous monitoring to detect inconsistencies from historical trends and trigger remediation workflow to send notification
Q1 2025 Public
Anomaly detection and remediation workflow for ensuring quick and efficient error resolution. Usage feedback to adjust anomaly detection threshold or baseline, max
Directional Preview
tolerance level to avoid unnecessary notification.

Enabling authoring custom rules with SQL and Phyton, including regular expression language to create complex rules using Public
Authoring custom rule with SQL and Phyton
Phyton and SQL to measure and monitor data integrity related data quality issues of their data estate. Q4 2024 Preview
Good
Define and propagate DQ rules from CDEs to mapped Enable data quality stewards to add data quality rules to the critical data element (column) and run data quality scanning Confidence Public
Data quality rules
data assets. from CDE page. Preview
lifecycle management
and reusability in Tracking data quality rules created, updated, and applied to the columns/data asset and promoting DQ rules from Draft to Test Public
enterprise grade. Data Quality rule lifecycle management
to Production, and enabling audit trail data quality rules lifecycle reporting. Preview
Q1 2025
This feature enable data quality stewards to perform certain checks at almost every data asset and few columns per data
Directional Public
Reusability of data quality rules
asset. Users will be able to reuse the same custom rule to multiple data assets. Preview
Health Management – Controls, Actions, and Reports

Value Capability Impact Est. Release Release Type

Publishing Purview catalog metadata from Purview to OneLake to enable self-serve insights and
analytics to all users. Customers will be able to configure the storage location and other
Self-serve insights and analytics with BYOC (Bring Q3 2024
information in Purview UX to publish their tenant-specific data in their storage. Domain and Public Preview
Self-serve insights from Your Own Compute) High Confidence
dimension models will be published in the learn portal to help users to create semantic models for
Purview OneLake for Power BI reporting.
seamless data health
Ability to create insights from health actions, CDE
insights. Q4 2024
(Critical Data Element), OKR (Objectives and Key Publishing Purview catalog metadata from Purview to OneLake to enable self-serve insights and
Good Public Preview
Results), custom type and custom attributes from analytics to all users.
Confidence
Purview Data Governance metadata in OneLake.
Custom controls and reports Auto assign and close the actions through Q4 2024
with actions to derive Increase Data Stewards productivity through auto assigning the action and close the action
automation to improve overall action management Good Public Preview
highest impact from health automatically through continuous validation of the metadata estate. Confidence
process.
actions
Ability to add custom reports to the Data estate Enable data owners, stewards and leaders to publish custom PBI reports on the report page to
Public Preview
health reports list manage all data estate health report in one location.
Q1 2025
Directional
Integrating with ticketing systems like SNOW will help customers to manage, and close data health-
Integrate Data Estate Health actions with ticketing
related actions within the SLA, and this helps to maintain the health score of the data estate Public Preview
systems
continuously.

Enhanced traceability to Enable data estate owners and data stewards to track data access, data usage purpose, data
Ability to track data traceability, data value & cost Public Preview
track access, value and value & cost, data retention, OKR (Objectives and Key Results), and overall data traceability to
and retention of data.
retention of data to improve improve the health of their data estate.
data estate health Q1 2025
Ability to track access and use, estate curation, Enable data estate owners and data stewards to track access Request SLA, zero-trust default Directional
trustability and observability of data estate. access, critical data identification, critical data connection, business alignment, data health Public Preview
observability, and data security and compliance.

Enable users to browse data quality overview of their multi-cloud data estate and see how many
Q3 2024
Data Quality and data estate health report. records passed and failed against applied data quality rules the data assets level for a data product Public Preview
Shipped
of the governance domain.
 Observability

Value Capability Impact Est. Release Release Type

• Deeper understanding of Observability in business concepts: governed Data Curators and Data Stewards can better understand the governance metadata to help carry
domains, data products, data assets and out actions such as impact analysis, root cause analysis, and derive insights that can
Q3 2024 Private Preview
governance practice with richer
High Confidence
context around Business Concepts glossary terms help prioritize investments in data curation and management.

Data Curators and Data Stewards can derive observability-based insights for all the
Observability capability extended to additional metadata/business concepts, that will enable them to take data driven actions in curation and
business concepts such as - Glossary terms, management. Public Preview
• Enhanced observability along CDEs etc. Data Catalog consumers can get contextual view of observability across all published concepts and
with additional business relevant details.
concepts
Q4 2024
Good Confidence
• Easier & insightful data estate
exploration
A single-entry point for observability with visibility into the whole data estate enables users to derive
Global data estate observability cross-domain observability insights and add enhanced value to actions such as RCA/Impact analysis, Public Preview
analyze and act on right investments in data curation and management etc.