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Data Governance
— classified, protected, compliant

Governance that scales with the platform — automated classification, catalogue and lineage, policy enforcement and data lifecycle — with Microsoft Purview, Unity Catalog or your catalogue of choice.

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Data governanceMicrosoft PurviewData catalogueData lineageData classificationSensitivity labelsData Security Posture Management (DSPM)Data qualityMaster data managementData stewardshipData contractsPolicy enforcementAccess governanceData lifecycle & retentionAI data governanceData sovereignty
Status quo · late 2026

What has changed — and why it matters now

01

Governance became a design pillar

Without automated lineage, classification and access control, lakehouses become untrustworthy as they scale — and AI amplifies every quality problem.

02

DSPM joined the stack

Data security posture tools discover sensitive data across clouds and SaaS and feed both governance and the SOC.

03

AI needs governed inputs

Prompts, RAG indexes and model outputs are governed data; labels and access rules must travel with data into AI systems.

How we approach it

Our method for Data Governance

01Operating modelDomains, owners, stewards, councils — federated governance sized to you.
02Catalogue & classifyAutomated discovery, sensitivity labels, glossary, lineage across the estate.
03ProtectAccess policies, masking, encryption, DLP tied to classification.
04Quality & contractsRules, scores, data contracts and SLAs for data products.
05Lifecycle & complianceRetention, deletion, sovereignty, GDPR and AI Act evidence.
In depth

Governance capabilities

Discovery & catalogue

Purview Data Map, Unity Catalog, Dataplex, Glue, Collibra.

Classification & labelling

Auto-classification, sensitivity labels inherited into Fabric, Power BI and M365.

Lineage

Column-level lineage from source to dashboard to AI index.

Policy enforcement

Attribute-based access, row/column security, DLP, DSPM findings.

Data quality

Profiling, rules, scorecards, incident workflow.

What you get

Deliverables

Data cataloguesAccess controlsSensitivity labelsPolicy enforcementCompliance mappingSecure data lifecycle
Technology-agnostic

Platforms we work across

We design for the outcome first and choose the platform second — across Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud, and every major AI provider.

Microsoft PurviewDatabricks Unity CatalogGoogle DataplexAWS Glue Data Catalog & Lake FormationCollibraAlationMonte Carlo
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