Scoping Microsoft Purview: Five Key Questions for a Successful Implementation (Part 1)
Implementing Microsoft Purview is a critical step toward establishing robust data governance to enable better visibility and control over organizational data assets. However, due to the broad business areas and volume of stakeholders involved, many Purview projects are undersold in scope, leading to missed deadlines, unforeseen costs, and underwhelming adoption. Sullexis recommends a ‘start-small’ approach to implementing Purview, designed to help organizations accurately scope and deploy it from the start, building out domains one by one, eating this elephant one bite at a time!
In this blog series, we will cover five key questions that will help to enable a well-planned and successful Purview deployment.
Let’s jump into our first question:
1. What Are Your Corporate Objectives for Implementing Purview?
Before diving into Purview, it’s important to define what your corporate objectives are. For example, are you implementing Purview to support regulatory compliance, improved reporting, or streamlined data governance? Your objectives will dictate which Purview features to focus on.
If regulatory compliance (e.g., SOX, HIPAA, GDPR) is the goal, then you would want to make sure your implementation and team are going to prioritize Purview’s sensitive data classification, access policies, and audit trails. For data governance and cataloging, Purview’s data catalog should be developed to establish a single source of truth for enterprise data assets, ensuring proper classification, and metadata management. If focusing on data products and ownership, assign clear ownership of data assets within Purview to enable better data accessibility, accuracy, and usability across business functions. Bottom line, start with your end goals and work backwards.
With so many features available, it’s critical to align your Purview implementation planning with your corporate objectives to ensure that the implementation is focused, measurable, and valuable to your organization.
Stay tuned for our next blog in this series where we will discuss the importance of building governance strategies at the domain and subdomain levels.
Can’t wait for more? Read the full blog.