Purview Data Governance Readiness Assessment
Unlock the potential of Microsoft Purview for your organisation with Simpson Associates’ Purview Data Governance Readiness Assessment.
What is the Purview Data Governance Readiness Assessment?
Are you ready to unlock the full potential of Microsoft Purview? Many organisations dive into data governance tools without a clear plan and understanding of their current landscape, leading to misaligned goals, underused capabilities, and costly rework.
Our Purview Data Governance Readiness Assessment is specifically designed to help you overcome these challenges. It is an advisory engagement that will help you assess your current data governance landscape and prepare you for successful adoption of Microsoft Purview. We will guide you through a series of targeted workshops with key stakeholders, we will gather and validate requirements, understand business needs, and evaluate existing governance processes, data sources, and compliance needs.
The outcome is a tailored Microsoft Purview design for your organisation. You will have a clear roadmap that outlines the next steps for moving into implementation, including technical architecture, configuration recommendations, effort estimates, and customer resource requirements.
This readiness assessment gives you more clarity and control over your data. With a strong foundation for Purview, you will have less complexity around solution design ultimately allowing you to make smarter decisions for the future of your business.
Benefits of the Purview Data Governance Readiness Assessment :
Your business, IT, compliance, and governance teams will get a shared and validated set of requirements ensuring goals are defined across different teams.
Through a tailored solution design the assessment ensures all your governance needs are met and you have complete control over your data.
The feasibility and mapping work will help you understand how your business requirements connect to the technical features available in Purview.
With a documented design, project plan, and roadmap, your organisation can move into implementation knowing what’s needed and where to focus.
Readiness for Purview
On completion, your organisation will have the clarity needed to adopt Microsoft Purview with minimal rework.
Tailored Governance Solutions
Unlock a deeper understanding of purview, empowering your teams to map its tools to specific governance needs.
Expert Recommendations
Tap into our expertise in technology choices, and practical implementation guidance ensuring knowledge share across your business.
Transparent Cost and Resource Planning
Get visibility into licensing, effort, and roles allowing you to plan and execute according to your needs.
Who should use the Purview Data Governance Readiness Assessment?
The Simpson Associates Purview Data Governance Readiness Assessment service is ideal for organisations that:
Lack clarity on governance goals: Organisations often struggle to define what they want to achieve with data governance or how to prioritise use cases.
Lack data visibility: Purview can help you discover, catalogue, and classify data across cloud and on-premises sources.
Have inconsistent data policies and definitions: The assessment will help standardise governance policies, business glossaries, and classifications across the organisation.
Face fragmented governance across platforms: By the end of the assessment, you will have a centralised platform to manage governance across multiple data systems.
Have Difficulty tracking data lineage: It offers lineage tracking to help understand data flows and downstream impacts.
Purview Data Governance Readiness Assessment deliverables: What you get
Implementing Microsoft Purview Governance can be challenging for organisations because it requires more than just technical deployment, it demands clear alignment between business, governance, and technical teams. This assessment will give you a clear implementation roadmap along with a cost and effort estimation allowing you to utilise Purview without requiring any rework
Governance Requirements Tailored for You
The assessment will help your organisation underline clear governance objectives in order enabling focused and faster outcomes.
Capability Assessment
You will gain a complete understanding of feasibility and mapping of requirements preparing you to effectively deploy Microsoft Purview and Azure capabilities.
Solution Design Document
A Solution design document covering architecture, policies, workflows, and recommendations for data classification and management giving you a birds eye view of your data estate.
Implementation Roadmap
You will be equipped with a project plan and timeline outlining next steps for successful and timely implementation
Cost and Effort Estimation
Estimated costs, including licensing, consumption, and implementation effort ensuring you can plan and execute accordingly.
I'm genuinely proud of the work we did with a UK regulatory authority. We implemented a fully private Microsoft Purview deployment for them in a highly secure environment… What truly excites me is seeing their analysts now empowered with trusted, contextual data at their fingertips. By giving them a scalable platform for complete data cataloguing, lineage, and quality management – bringing clarity and confidence to their vital work.
Outcomes
The Purview Data Governance Readiness Assessment focuses on proving a clear roadmap with business aligned goals to help your organisations implement and deploy Microsoft Purview effectively.
Why Simpson Associates can help customers on their Data Governance journey
With over 30 years of dedicated experience in all things data, we’re the trusted partner for organisations seeking innovative solutions. We don’t just provide services; we combine our deep expertise and adherence to best practices to deliver scalable, tailored data governance solutions.
As a Microsoft Partner of the Year (2024 for Community Response), our commitment ensures your investments, like Microsoft Purview, are implemented effectively, meeting your specific needs and delivering measurable, real-world impact for your organisation.
Next Steps
To learn more about getting started with the Simpson Associates AI Assessment, contact us today!