Data governance and data quality action data are now available for self-service analytics

March 2025

Data Governance

• In preview: Data observability in Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog provides a single view of your data estate to help you understand lineage and data health, and identify improvements in metadata, ownership, data quality, or data architecture.
• General Availability (GA): Snowflake view support for data profiling and data quality scan is now generally available. Data quality stewards can profile and scan data in Snowflake view to measure and monitor the quality of data in Snowflake view.
• General Availability (GA): Table lookup data quality rule enhancement enables data quality steward to compare and confirm that a value in one table can be found in a specific column of another table.
• In preview: Data governance and data quality action data are now available for self-service analytics. Customers can use data governance action data alongside other Purview metadata for analytics and insights.
• General Availability (GA): Azure Dedicated SQL Pool (formarly SQL DW) is supported for measuBOLDring data quality. Users can profile their data, apply data quality rules, and schedule data quality jobs for their data in Azure Dedicated SQL Pool (SQL Data Warehouse). See connection setup instructions.
• Updated: The Data Quality Steward role is enhanced to allow for the setup of a data quality schedule to run a data quality scanning job hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly.

Data lifecycle management and records management

• New: How to apply retention labels in Loop and Copilot Pages

Data Security Posture Management for AI

• Updated: Added clarification to the Prerequisites documentation that the Microsoft Purview browser extension is required on Windows for the Insider Risk Management policy, and for endpoint DLP policies on Windows when you use Chrome.