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Monday, 16 December 2024

Purview Data Governance GA pricing

The Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog general availability has a new pricing model associated with it. It will start from 6 January 2025. The pricing model should make it easier for customers to track and manage as well as help customers understand this.

The 2 pricing elements

Unified Catalog

This catalog enables data stewards to curate assets and data consumers to view and access the catalog.

The pricing example given

5,000 tables, views, stored procedures, resource sets, and AI models in their data map

1,000 unique governed assets in Unified Catalog

4,000 assets not linked to data products or critical data elements are not considered governed assets and therefore not counted

Cost: 30-days, would be $500 a month

Pay-as-you-go price in  East pricing for a standard SKU for Unified Catalog $0.0165 per asset per day or ~ $0.50 per month

Note: Assets that are collected in the Purview Data Map, but not linked to the governance concepts aren't counted as governed assets.

Data management

This part of the data catalog looks at data quality and data estate health management.

There is the concept of a Data Governance Processing Unit (DGPU) which is the amount of service performance consumed for 60 minutes. The basic SKU is the default and an example  Pay-as-you-go Price  is $15 per DGPU and there are 2 other levels standard ($60) and advanced ($240).  

Introducing Microsoft Purview Data Governance GA pricing


Wednesday, 4 December 2024

Microsoft Purview Ignite updates

During Microsoft Ignite there were a number of Microsoft Purview updates

Names changes in products were

  • Microsoft Purview Data Catalog is changing its name to Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog. The goal is to provide a platform for data governance and to drive business value creation in your organization.  Microsoft mentioned data governance isn't just a gatekeeping function but when practiced well it also accelerates data value creation. 
  • Microsoft Purview AI Hub was renamed to Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI) which is now GA. 

Data Security Posture Management for AI

Data assessments (in preview) to identify and fix potential oversharing risks in your organization.

Recommendations and policies to detect risky AI usage with insider risk management policy.

Extending support for other generative AI apps, including Copilot Studio, ChatGPT - Microsoft Purview integration with ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API



Microsoft Security Copilot in Purview is in activity explorer and it can help with data hunting and generation of filters from natural language prompts

Monday, 2 December 2024

Introducing the Model for Responsible Innovation

The Responsible Technology Adoption Unit have published a model for responsible innovation as part of DSIT It looks at the practicalities of ethical risks associated with AI or data driven projects. This model has been tested over many years originally being built in 2021 by the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation.  Trustworthiness is at its heart with eight fundamentals areas that teams should strive for to build trust: 

  • Transparency
  • Accountability
  • Human-centred value
  • Fairness
  • Privacy
  • Safety
  • Societal wellbeing

Read more here

Responsible Technology Adoption Unit Blog