Azure Purview to Track the lineage of data in your Organization

In this article, we’ll look at Microsoft’s latest Data governance service called Azure Purview. It is a unified data governance service that helps Organizations manage and govern both on-premises and cloud data. Easily create a holistic, up-to-date map of an Organization's data landscape with automated data discovery, sensitive data classification, and end-to-end data lineage. Empower data consumers to find valuable, trustworthy data

Azure Purview consists of three main components:

• A data discovery, classification, and mapping component will automatically find all of an organization’s data on-premises or in the cloud and evaluate its characteristics and sensitivity.
• A data catalog component enabling users to search for trusted data using a simple web-based experience — the visual graphs let users quickly see if data of interest is from a trusted source.
• And a data governance component provides users a bird’s-eye view of a company’s data landscape, enabling data officers to efficiently govern data use. This view enables critical insights such as data distribution across environments, how data is moving, and where sensitive data is stored.

Now let's see how we can create a Purview account and register a database

Create an Azure Purview Account

Sign-in to Azure Portal and click on +Create Resource
Search for Azure Purview and Click…