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Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview is Microsoft's unified data governance platform.

It enables organizations to discover, govern, catalog, and manage data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environments.

The Purview Unified SDK interacts with the Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog API, allowing Python applications to create, update, retrieve, and manage governance resources programmatically.

Core Resources

The SDK currently supports operations on the following Microsoft Purview resources:

  • Business Domains
  • Data Products
  • Glossary Terms
  • Critical Data Elements (CDEs)
  • Data Assets
  • Data Columns
  • Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
  • Policies
  • Relationships

Unified Catalog

Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog organizes governance resources into a hierarchy.

Business Domains provide the top-level organizational structure.

Within a Business Domain, organizations can create Data Products, associate Data Assets, define Glossary Terms, identify Critical Data Elements, and establish relationships between resources.

Next Steps

Continue with Resource Model to understand how these resources relate to one another.

➡️ Next: Resource Model