Microsoft Fabric Meets Purview Unified Catalog

Enterprises increasingly rely on data lakes, AI models, and real-time analytics to stay competitive. Microsoft’s solution positions itself at this intersection by combining Fabric’s unified data analytics stack with Purview’s enterprise-grade data governance via the Unified Catalog. The result: data discovery, lineage, access control, and analytics in one integrated experience.

Managing data silos, ensuring data quality, and supporting AI workflows are major challenges. By weaving governance into the analytics platform, organizations can accelerate insight delivery while maintaining trust, compliance, and responsible data use. This integration empowers developers, analysts and data leaders with stronger data foundations for AI-driven work.

• Fabric builds on a single data lake—OneLake—providing unified storage across analytic workloads.
• Purview’s Unified Catalog lets users explore, secure, and understand the data estate by organizing assets into governance domains, data products and providing AI-enhanced discovery.
• Fabric items (like lakehouses, dataflows and Power BI semantic models) register automatically in Purview, enabling immediate cataloging, lineage and access control.
• Purview provides data quality scoring, health controls and risk-based insights that feed into Fabric workflows and AI pipelines.
• Enterprises can support self-service access requests, business-user search and governance workflows all from within Unified Catalog, improving productivity and trust.

Industry context:
In 2025, analytics platforms are evolving from isolated components into unified ecosystems that integrate ingestion, transformation, insight, and governance. Traditional architectures separated governance tools from analytics systems, which slowed innovation and introduced risk. With this integration, Microsoft signals a shift: governance is now embedded, not bolt-on. As AI workflows proliferate across industries, trustworthy and compliant data has become a strategic asset — not just a technical concern.

If you’re building AI-driven analytics systems in 2025, the joint capabilities of Microsoft Fabric and Purview Unified Catalog offer a compelling foundation. They reduce friction between data preparation, modelling, insight and governance — enabling faster, trusted innovation at scale.