I’m sure you’ve heard that AI is now essential to modern businesses. But AI is only as good as the data that feeds it. To outpace the competition and deliver value with AI to your customers and workforce, you need quality data to act as the backbone of your AI projects.

You can’t deploy AI at scale without addressing data governance that delivers high-quality, trusted data that’s secure, compliant and easy for everyone to use.

You may already know Microsoft Purview for its comprehensive set of solutions that help organizations govern, protect and manage data, wherever it lives. But Microsoft has just reimagined and relaunched Purview, its flagship data governance solution, into a business-friendly, integrated SaaS solution for federated data governance. It’s designed to enable better data access, controls and quality that empower more of your teams to manage, discover and access data. And to help fast-track your organization’s journey to realizing these benefits, we’ve created a new Microsoft Purview accelerator – making it easy for you to unleash Purview’s full potential at speed – I’ll talk more about what it can accomplish in detail a bit later on.

Microsoft Purview’s reimagined data governance experience can help address key data governance and security concerns, including:

• Fragmentation: Too many tools affect data consistency, quality, security and compliance
• Resource drain: Repetitive manual processes fatigue teams and waste time
• Overly centralized governance: A restrictive approach causes bottlenecks, can limit data access and stifle innovation
• Technical interfaces: Business users can be shut out by tools designed for data specialists
• Dark data: With a huge amount of enterprise data “dark,” there’s a wealth of value that many teams cannot access or extract insights from

By combining your data with intuitive tools, embedded security and AI-powered automation, Microsoft Purview takes care of complex data governance tasks so you can concentrate on advancing your business strategies and reducing risk. Purview is the data catalog that’s built for Microsoft Fabric, which is the data platform our clients are using to leapfrog into the AI era.

Join us at the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
With this new Microsoft Purview launch, Avanade is poised and ready to showcase how we’re working closely with Microsoft to elevate your data governance for the AI era. That’s why it’s an exciting time to be at the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, taking place September 24–27th in Stockholm.

If you’re interested in diving deeper into Microsoft Purview’s capabilities and its integration with Microsoft Fabric, you’ll have several opportunities to engage with Avanade around these solutions at the upcoming conference, including our expo hall booth presence, live demos, presentations and expert speaking sessions.

Our speaking sessions:

• How to jumpstart data quality and governance with Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Fabric
  I’ll be joined by Microsoft's Chief Data Officer for Enterprise Data Governance, Damon Buono, for a panel discussion, demo and Q&A session aimed to help you accelerate your data transformation and achieve AI outcomes faster with Microsoft Purview.
• Data challenges, lessons learned, and the Microsoft Fabric opportunity
  Join our business leaders for a candid discussion on data challenges, myths and realities. Get inspired by lessons learned from the teams working with Microsoft Fabric to empower employees and define new experiences for customers.

Microsoft Purview is the data catalog for Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Purview’s integration with Microsoft Fabric enables new and powerful capabilities for data governance. Microsoft Purview enhances data governance and AI capabilities, ensuring that data is governed with sensitivity labels, data protection and a universal security model. While Microsoft Fabric’s ability to centralize data from multiple sources into a unified lake and combine it with Microsoft Purview’s governance tools ensures your data is well-managed and readily available for AI-driven analysis.

Our Microsoft Purview accelerator
Avanade is a Microsoft priority partner for Microsoft Purview and one of only a few official launch partners, meaning we hold unique insights that can help you maximize the solution’s potential.

Our expertise and ties with the Microsoft Purview data governance product engineering team mean we can understand your unique data challenges and footprint. And with our accelerators, developed in partnership with Microsoft, we’ll ensure you can seamlessly unify your intelligent data platform and analytics, with high-quality, well-governed data.

With our engagement approach you’ll be able to unlock your data’s full potential in as little as four to six weeks, gaining a clear overview of your data landscape, catalog and quality rules. Our expert team will help you streamline the initial setup of Microsoft Purview data catalog, reducing key steps from weeks and days to hours and minutes, with:

• Comprehensive data governance efficiency that enhances practices to keep data accessible, secure, scalable and easy to explore
• Automation-assisted data cataloging that speeds up the loading of business domains, data products assets and glossaries, aligning them with industry taxonomy models and organizational vocabularies – it also integrates business semantics into AI models, cutting the time needed for metadata management
• A comprehensive data governance framework for data product standards, models and attributes that let you move from federated to intentional data governance – we focus on high-value, high-risk data, so you can prioritize what matters while reducing costs
• Support for data management and marketplace integration to help keep things business friendly

If you want a more in-depth look at Microsoft Purview’s capabilities, download our Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview guide, which features a dedicated section on our Microsoft Purview accelerator.

And, if you’re planning on attending the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Stockholm this September, please find the Avanade and Accenture booth. We would love to show you what’s possible with stronger data governance in the AI era.