Solidatus & Microsoft Purview: Elevating Data Governance in the AI Era
Solidatus Data Lineage Partners with Microsoft Purview to Help Enterprises Understand, Trust and Govern the Data at the Foundation of their Business Decisions and Opportunities in the Era of AI
Solidatus, a world-leading data lineage provider for the largest and most complex companies, is excited to be selected as the preferred partner for Microsoft Purview Data Governance solution and be part of its general availability from September 2024. Solidatus’ fine-grain data lineage and best in class visualizations, including the two-way integration into Microsoft Purview, is available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace to coincide with the general availability date for Microsoft Purview Data Governance and Microsoft Fabric. Solidatus’ connectivity and integration with Microsoft Purview offers businesses an extension of Microsoft’s oversight and governance of data capabilities. Using the integration with Solidatus, companies can connect to, understand, trust and govern data – in both a full view and detailed granular basis. This data is the foundation of their business decisions, governance, transformation projects, AI and more.
They can do this through a visual map of their data’s complete journey through all systems in their organization. This extends from a high-level macro view of every system – not just a subset and not only from Azure – right into drilling deep down to a column in a table, to visually being shown errors in data quality, that need fixing. And to be able to look back to how it was in the past, to show regulators it has been fixed, as well as forward to how it might be once new systems are put in.
In an era where data is at the source of most things in business – from sensitive customer information stored in CRM systems, to the data at the basis of AI and board level critical business decisions – understanding, trusting and proving the source and journey of data from start to finish – from both a detailed and high-level macro view of every system, is fundamental. Not only is it crucial for data governance and compliance, but in making the right decisions, founded on trusted data. And the only way to ensure it is trusted, is through advanced data lineage – to be able to see a map and flow of it on a macro and granular level, from start to finish, see any gaps or issues, and correct them. Solidatus’ connectivity and integration with Microsoft Purview enables this insight for businesses.
This is an example of the kind of view you might have – where you see the flows between different systems and any issues in the data are highlighted in red. Once you know where the issues are, you can drill down, resolve them and drill back up to see a new, corrected view.
When is Data “AI-Ready” and Ready to Create Business Opportunity?
The challenge that data leaders face in adopting and succeeding in AI projects is the immensity and complexity of data being collected. As AI is becoming more commonplace amongst all departments within an organization, instead of being the remit of technology departments, the ability to understand and govern data flowing into – and decisions being made by – AI becomes the bottleneck in launching and maintaining AI projects and tools. Data leaders and the data governance office become key partners in the success of AI by providing understanding, security, and ensuring quality and access to data and data sets. Without the right data, AI – as well as many other critical business projects – will not be reliable.
AI-ready data, at its very basic level, requires data estates to be:
- Well governed
- Secure
- Accurate
- High quality
- Available
- Fit for purpose
- Monitored
- Enriched
- Ethical/Free of bias
Solidatus’ fine-grain data lineage captures and ensures that data throughout the data estate can be evaluated as AI-ready from a macro entire view, down to the individual data element level, supporting Microsoft Purview Data Governance solution as a unified and business user-friendly interface to interrogate and interact with the data estate.
Securing and Activating Data for AI
The increase in AI adoption and requirement for more and more AI-ready data puts increasing pressure on data leaders AND business leaders to ensure governance practices are thoughtfully designed and well-executed. Enterprises are increasingly embracing the need for a unified approach to data governance, to enable data throughout their organization to be easily evaluated for use in AI. The implementation of a unified approach requires not just the right technology, but the right people and processes to be updated as well. Realistically a completely centralized operating model will not work in most organizations, requiring partnership from individuals across the organization operating in a federated manner to create and maintain a view of the entire data estate and evaluate whether data is AI-ready – and continually can be used for AI – through any changes and manipulations it may produce.
Solidatus’ data lineage solution enables subject matter experts (SMEs) to scan and map the data estates within their own domain of knowledge AND provide critical business context to enrich data and data flows. Solidatus’s connectors automatically harvest fine-grain metadata, transformations, and most importantly lineage across a large ecosystem of technologies, including legacy mainframe applications. This reduces the manual work to map data estates and for the first time allows companies to truly access data flows details down to the column or data element level, with the context of how this data is actually used in the business.
Solidatus bridges the gap between IT and business, to bring understanding not just of the technical data estate, but of the business usage and context, to enable governance and oversight on the most critical business processes and AI models.
This federated model of capturing the data estate closest to the SMEs can be aggregated into a centralized view to support a unified governance approach. The data office can access and visualize data lineage across an entire organization’s data estate enabling full visibility into security, quality, accuracy, and more to evaluate AI-readiness in every step of the data flows
Key Benefits for Solidatus in an AI-driven Organization:
Solidatus’ leading data lineage solution provides 6 key benefits for organizations transforming from reactive AI adoption to embracing AI as a core business strategy:
- Fine-grain detail to understand data and data flows down to the data element – required to understand and evaluate each individual data element within a data set used to train or power AI
- Flexibility to discover and capture the “truth” of a data estate as it is now, without having to pre-define structures or concepts ahead of time within the platform
- Visual and API interaction with the data estate, enabling easy point and click interrogation of data, including impact analysis, ownership, access rules, etc. for each data element AND each data element that contributes to or results from the original element
- End-to-end visualization and capture of data as it flows through an entire data estate, enabling evaluation of AI-readiness at any point in the data flow
- Bi-temporal version control which snapshots quality, logic, policies, and flows for every change in the data estate over time, allowing users to monitor changes and look back and forwards to any point in time with the macro context of the data estate.
Solidatus and Microsoft Purview Data Governance
Solidatus is proud to be selected as a partner for Microsoft Purview’s AI-powered, unified, and business-user friendly data governance solution and be available on Azure Marketplace.
Explore the future of data governance by booking a demo now.
Written by: Philip Dutton
Co-Founder & CEO at Solidatus
Philip is a Senior System Architect and Project Manager with over 20 years’ experience within Financial Services.
