The wait is over the Cool Runnings 2022 Piste Maps are available. Not one but 2 piste maps, one for the Synapse room and one for the Analytics room . We have more then one slope that enables predictive analytics as we are running 2 tracks.
Register: https://bit.ly/DT-CR22Register Agenda: https://bit.ly/DTCR2022Agenda #azuresynapse @Azure_Synapse
For our Data Toboggan Cool Runnings 9 July event we continue to evolve our analytics.
Did you interactively want to see what is included in the sessions. Check out the bottom of agenda page.
Agenda: https://bit.ly/DTCR2022Agenda
Don't forget to Register at the same time: https://bit.ly/DT-CR22Register
There is some amazing content to be shared in our next conference so why not spend the day learning with 2 tracks of content to choose from.
Register: https://bit.ly/DT-CR22Register
Agenda: https://bit.ly/DTCR2022Agenda
Actionable insights with KPIs shows what percentage of the
data estate does not have assigned data owners and how many assets are fully, partially, and not
“curated”. This can help indicate if there is a significant return on
investment.
These metrics can be drilled into further in a tree map.
There is also the availability of trend analysis of key governance metrics. You
can export the data for offline tracking and follow ups.
Note: Insights generation is enabled at provisioning.
We are are really to announce our agenda for Data Toboggan Cool Runnings. Register now for 9 July.
Agenda: https://bit.ly/DTCR2022Agenda Register: https://bit.ly/DT-CR22Register
Great to see SQLBits post this.
We keep getting more and more from the team at @venturi_ltd with their Tech in 10 Podcast - Recorded at SQLBits!
Listen on any podcast platform
https://pod.co/tech-in-ten/ep-9-dr-victoria-holt-enterprise-data-architect-coeo
Helps respond to
security events, forensic investigations, internal investigations, and
compliance obligations. Microsoft Purview provides two auditing
solutions: Audit (Standard) and Audit (Premium).
Communication compliance helps with complying with internal policies and regulatory compliance requirements. It has focused policy templates and a flexible workflow, with actionable insights to quickly resolve detected compliance issues.
Microsoft
Purview Compliance Manager
This is a feature in the Microsoft Purview compliance
portal that helps with management of organizational compliance requirements. Compliance Manager covers the entire journey, from taking inventory of the data protection risks to
managing the complexities of implementing controls, staying current with
regulations and certifications, and reporting to auditors.
Microsoft
Purview Customer Lockbox
Customer Lockbox brings you into the approval workflow
process that Microsoft uses to ensure only authorized requests allow access to
your content. The audit record is logged in the audit log when a person
in your organization approves or denies a Customer Lockbox request.
Data Catalog is an enterprise-wide metadata catalogue that enables data asset discovery. It’s a fully-managed service that lets you register, enrich, discover, understand, and consume data sources.
Microsoft
Purview Data Connectors
Supported data sources , file types, and scanning concept
Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management
Manage information lifecycle and records intelligently through
Microsoft
Purview Records Management
To manage legal obligations to demonstrate compliance with regulations, increase efficiency with regular disposition of items that are no longer required to be retained, no longer of value, or no longer required for business purposes. The capabilities for Microsoft 365 services and apps:
The Microsoft Purview data map provides the foundation for data discovery and data governance. It captures metadata about data present in analytics, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and operation systems in hybrid, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments. The Microsoft Purview data map stays up to date with its built-in scanning and classification system.
Microsoft Purview Double Key Encryption
Double Key Encryption (DKE) uses two keys together to access protected content. Microsoft stores one key in Microsoft Azure, and you store the other key.
Microsoft
Purview eDiscovery (Standard and Premium)
Electronic discovery, or eDiscovery, is the process of identifying and delivering electronic information that can be used as evidence in legal cases. Microsoft Purview provides three eDiscovery solutions: Content search, eDiscovery (Standard), and eDiscovery (Premium).
Microsoft
Purview Information Barriers
A compliance solution that allows two-way communication to be restricted and collaboration between groups and users in Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business.
Microsoft Purview Information Protection
To enable discovery, classification, and protect sensitive information wherever it lives or travels.These information protection capabilities tools are to know your data, protect your data, and prevent data loss.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Identify and help prevent risky or inappropriate sharing,
transfer, or use of sensitive data on endpoints, apps, and services. 
A compliance
solution that enables detection,
investigation, and act on malicious and inadvertent activities in your
organization. Insider risk policies allow the types of risks to be defined to
identify and detect, including acting on cases and
escalating cases to Microsoft eDiscovery (Premium) if needed.
Microsoft Purview governance portal
Microsoft Purview is a unified data governance service that
enables a foundational understanding of on-premises, multi-cloud,
operational and SaaS data.
Microsoft Purview compliance portal
The Microsoft Purview compliance portal provides easy access
to the data and tools you need to manage to your organization's compliance
needs.
In Microsoft
Purview Data Estate Insights, you can get an overview of the assets that have
been scanned into the Data Map and view key gaps that can be closed by
governance stakeholders, for better governance of the data estate.
Microsoft
Purview Customer Key Customer Key only encrypts data at rest
in the cloud. It provides extra protection against viewing of
data by unauthorized systems or personnel, and complements. It helps meet regulatory or compliance obligations for controlling root keys.
Microsoft Priva is a new category of features in Microsoft Compliance Centre, providing solutions for data privacy compliance
Subject
Rights Requests, sometimes called data subject access requests (DSARs), or consumer rights requests, enquires are sorted with workflow, automation, and
collaboration capabilities for helping data search for subject data, reviewing findings, appropriate file collection, and reports.
Privacy Risk Management enables the set up of policies that identify privacy risks in the Microsoft 365 environment and enable easy remediation. Privacy Risk Management policies are meant to be internal guides to
Workflows - preview feature
Workflows are automated, repeatable business processes that users can create within Microsoft Purview to validate and orchestrate CUD (create, update, delete) operations on their data entities. Enabling these processes allow organizations to track changes, enforce policy compliance, and ensure quality data across their data landscape.
Policies - preview feature
Access policies in Microsoft Purview enable management access
to different data systems across the entire data estate.
Today, 25 May 2022, I was at the Microsoft Build regional spotlight event at Reading in the UK.
I had the amazing honour to speak at the event. I was a part of two very different sessions.
Where are all the cloud and data engineers? with Richard Conway and Dr Victoria Holt
Photo credit: Craig Porteous
The number of cloud and data engineers currently on the market are too few to satisfy the demand for the global digital transformation agenda. Where are they all? How do we entice new people into this exciting field and better prepare new graduate engineers to use cloud patterns and practices?
In the table topic we talked about the shortage of cloud and data engineers. The possible reasons for this and discussed actionable insights on how business and people can help increase the number engineers and how it is a continuous learning journey. We answered questions poised by the in person and online attendees. The session was recorded and will be posted for on demand viewing here.
Gain agility with an integrated data platform with Pragati Jain, Dr Victoria Holt, Richard Conway and Andy Cross
Photo credit: Andy Cutler
How you can accelerate innovation on your application with an integrated data platform that adapts to your needs with Hybrid and multi-cloud capabilities?
We started this ask the expert session discussing the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform that was announced yesterday and told a story of the apps from the core foundations of data governance, Microsoft Purview, moving through to Azure Synapse to digital twins and Power BI. We answered questions from the in person audience and online attendees on various topics.
The session was recorded and will be posted for on demand viewing here.
It was a very rewarding day with plenty of opportunity for learning and making new friends. I would like to thank the other speakers in my sessions for their amazing help, the amazing tech team, producers, other MVPs , and the audience for selecting our sessions to attend.
The Microsoft Build keynote announced a raft of new features. Satya took a whistle top of new features within 10 areas.
So many new features but these are the highlights of features i am looking forward to using
Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform is now generally available. This new, integrated platform unifies operational databases, analytics and data governance. Read about it hear.
The platform accelerates innovation, achieves agility and is built on a trusted platform.
Microsoft Purview, the unified data governance platform Satya said
It is Microsoft Build this week and this year there are regional spotlights in 5 countries France, Germany, Japan, Latin America and UK. For the UK tech community the agenda is packed full of different types of sessions.
I am involved in a Table Topic session with Richard Conway. This is a live interactive session inspired by community experts to learn best practices and discover helpful resources.
The session is
Where are all the cloud and data engineers?
Wednesday, May 25 | 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM British Summer Time
This session is hosted in a Microsoft Teams Meeting and will be recorded and posted for on demand viewing on the public event website. The number of cloud and data engineers currently on the market are too few to satisfy the demand for the global digital transformation agenda. Where are they all? How do we entice new people into this exciting field and better prepare new graduate engineers to use cloud patterns and practices?
There are also Ask the Expert sessions to enable attendees to connect with experts to directly have questions answered live. I am helping out as a moderator for a couple of sessions as well.
Making Data Visualisation simple with DevOps practices - Speaker: Ian Pike and Liping Huang
Wednesday, May 25 | 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM British Summer Time
Gain agility with an integrated data platform - Main Speaker: Pragati Jean, Dr Victoria Holt, Richard Conway and Andy Cross
Wednesday, May 25 | 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM British Summer Time
This session is hosted in a Microsoft Teams Meeting and will be recorded and posted for on demand viewing on the public event website. In this Q&A session, you can learn from our experts on how you can accelerate innovation on your application with an integrated data platform that adapts to your needs with Hybrid and multi-cloud capabilities.
I am looking forward to an exciting day tomorrow with some amazing speakers.
There is an exciting new program from Azure Synapse called influencers.
The Azure Synapse Influencer program recognizes Azure Synapse Analytics community members who actively support one another by sharing Synapse-related content, announcements, and product news via social media.
The benefits of the new program
Follow @Azure_Synapse on Twitter . Share Azure Synapse-related posts and content using the hashtag #SynapseInfluencers and don't forget #datatoboggan for community content
I was excited to be a part of the Tech in Ten podcast by Venturi discussing SQLBits, Data Governance and Data Toboggan. It has been released as Episode 9.
The Tech in Ten team went down to the SQLBits data platform conference held at ExCeL London. Ben sat down with some of the speakers and data professionals at the event to talk about all things data and the ever-changing industry.
Listen to the podcast on Spotify.
One of the sessions was about the EDM.
There were discussion about the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) 14 key controls and Automations. These should help build trust and confidence in the industry.
Learn more about the CDMC, and download with a free license for internal use, at: https://edmcouncil.org/page/CDMC
For those who have been very DAMA Book of Knowledge focused the DCAM (Data Management Capability Assessment Model) is closely aligned. CDMC took the DCAM framework and focused on managing data in Cloud. It contains a number of best practices specific to the challenges (and opportunities) of Cloud. The council has been in regular communication with global regulators about CDMC, on what controls may be needed in ensuring safe and effective Cloud environments.
Controls that will be used in Snowflake to satisfy the EDMC's CDMC framework can be found at the GIT link is: https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/EDMC-CDMC-v1-14-Control_Mapping . On the Microsoft side in Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager there are templates for CDMC key controls.
The keynote was interesting talking about how the CDMC - Cloud Data Management Capabilities Framework - will have a global impact as the best practice standard for cloud Data. The session labelled as global industry standard for accelerating trusted cloud adoption created through global industry workgroup between May 2020 to September 2021. There were 100+ companies and 300+ participants. The panel was made up of
