Do I really need Purview?
Before you read any further in this blog, ask yourself the following Questions:
- Do you have a centralised inventory of all your data assets?
- Do you track data throughout the organisation?
- Do you identify unused or duplicate data assets?
- Do you classify sensitive data (e.g. PII, financial, health data)?
- Is this across multiple sources?
- Do you tag and label data?
- Do you monitor your data for regulatory compliance?
- Do you know who is accessing your data and why?
- Do you know that your data is of an acceptable Quality?
- Do you know who has taken copies of your data?
If the answer to any of these questions is no, then Purview will be able to help.
We all know data is one of an organisation’s most valuable assets, but only if you understand it. We speak to lots of businesses that have data scattered across Database Servers, Azure Services, Amazon S3, Hadoop, Salesforce, and beyond. They know it’s there, but they don’t always know what’s in it, who owns it, or what risks it might pose.
This is also the case for those customers looking to adopt AI or Copilot, whilst wanting to ensure that their data remains secure and inside the company. That’s where starting your Data Governance journey with Microsoft Purview makes such a difference. At Coeo, we help customers get the most from Purview from implementation through to ongoing support.
Implementing Purview
Our Consulting team help customers get Purview Data Governance set up and delivering value quickly from Proof of Concept through to a full production deployment.
That means:
- Helping to define roles and responsibilities for a Purview deployment
- Onboarding data sources
- Scanning your data estate so you can see what you have
- Classifying and tagging data to highlight what’s sensitive or high risk
- Building a business glossary so your data terms mean the same thing to everyone
- Laying the groundwork for compliance, governance and data loss prevention
It’s amazing how much clarity that first scan can bring. You start to see where your data lives, what’s been overlooked, and where potential risks sit.
Supporting Purview in Managed Services
Once Purview is in place, our Managed Services team keeps it running day-to-day. We schedule and monitor scans, onboard new data sources, and review results to make sure classification and lineage stay accurate. We also run jobs that identify gaps in classified data, which is incredibly useful for spotting risks early and staying ahead of regulatory needs like GDPR or ISO 27001.
In short, we keep your data governance engine healthy, current, and trusted.
Why Customers Find It Useful
Purview gives organisations visibility and confidence. You can finally answer questions like:
- Where does our sensitive data live?
- Who has access to it?
- Are we meeting our compliance requirements?
- Can we trust our data for reporting and analytics?
- As well as driving user adoption of certified data assets through self-service analytics
And because we manage it for you, you don’t need in-house experts to keep things running or spend time manually checking scans.
The Value It Drives
For many of our customers, Purview is about more than compliance; it’s a way to build trust in data. It helps reduce risk, improve decision-making, and enable people across the business to use data with confidence. It also saves time and cost by automating discovery and classification, so your teams can focus on insight, not admin.
At Coeo, we’ve seen how powerful this can be. If you’re getting started with data governance or already using Purview and want to get more value from it, our team can help you get there.
If you’d like to talk about how Purview could work for your organisation, feel free to reach out. We are always happy to share what’s worked well for others.