Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog

The Unified Catalog provides business-friendly data discovery and governance on top of the Data Map: organising assets into governance domains and data products with glossary terms, ownership, and data quality. This skill is the catalog/business layer; the Data Map (purview-data-map) is the technical scanning layer underneath.

When to use

Use this skill when the user wants analysts and data consumers to find, trust, and request data - not when they want to scan sources (that is the Data Map's job).

Do not use this skill for:

• Scanning lakehouses, databases, SaaS sources (use purview-data-map)
• Sensitivity labels for security/compliance (use purview-data-classification)
• Lifecycle/retention rules (use purview-data-lifecycle)
• AI data discovery (use purview-dspm-ai)

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