The “Data Governance Act” will enable data-driven digital innovation by making more data available to businesses

Europe has been leading the way in recent years in data protection, data rights and data governance regulation. The General Data Protection Rights (“GDPR”) and its far-reaching implications is well known. GDPR is not a one-off though, the #europeancommission has continued to press onward with initiatives like the creation of “Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud”. Proposals like “The #open #data Directive” and “The #data Governance Act”, that was recently adopted and thus set to become national law in all #europeanunion member states soon, aims to enable #datadriven #digitalinnovation by making more data available to businesses, stimulate increased usage of APIs and facilitate cross-sector data use and sharing across sectors like #environment, health, manufacturing and energy while ensuring that companies and individuals creating the data remain in control.

The importance of managing and securing data is increasing, but many companies still have some way to go in data governance adoption. #microsoft #azure #purview is a new unified #datagovernance solution designed to help businesses and organizations managing their SaaS, on-premises and hybrid- and multicloud data. Based on the #apache Atlas API ecosystem, #purview indexes and classifies data using built-in and custom classifiers and Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels into Data Maps. I especially like the Data Catalog though, with its search engine-esque look, making it very easy to filter data using business glossary terms, classifications, #sensitivity labels etc., and get a visualized overview where the found data resides, how it got there and what data has been derived from it.

#purview pricing is based on Capacity Unit and vCore hours, so anyone used at optimizing performance and cost in e.g., #azuredatafactory will feel at home. As with some of the best services out there, #purview started its life as a tool for #microsoft to enhance its own data governance, and now it’s finally GA. I can recommend any DPO, data engineer, data analyst or fellow architect alike to have a look. More info below:

Azure Purview – Unified Data Governance Solution | Microsoft Azure

IIoT project highlighted

Great to see one of the premier news sites on everything #internetofthings related, enterpriseiotinsights.com, covering how we are leveraging industrial IoT and advanced digital technologies as an enabler for digital change and new value adding services at scale in recent workloads.

In the article I, and my colleague Tove Pettersson at Thomas Concrete Group AB, go into detail from both a technological and business perspective on how we tackled two distinctively different use cases using #CrateDB, a non-relational and open source time-series database designed for industrial IoT use cases and machine data, and #kubernetes, at the core of a #cloudnative scalable, resilient and performant data-driven architecture in #microsoft#azurecloud. I think one of the key takeaways for fellow industrial organizations when commencing IIoT projects is the importance of thorough investigation and in-depth understanding of the technical capabilities that a workload calls for and how they intersect with the business requirements early on, as the wrong choice can be fatal to the success of an #iot project.

For full article and insights on these IIoT use cases, check out the link below:

How Thomas Concrete mixed industrial IoT to set foundation for digital change (enterpriseiotinsights.com)