The difference between the two Microsoft Purviews

Question

Hi,

Can you please tell me the difference between the two Microsoft Purviews:

1) Microsoft Purview compliance portal from Office 365 Portal https://compliance.microsoft.com/homepage
2) Microsoft Purview from the Azure Portal https://web.purview.azure.com/

Many thanks,
Colin

Answer 1

Hello @CSunny789,

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As you are aware that on April 19, 2022 Azure Purview is now called as Microsoft Purview.

Microsoft Purview combines the former Azure Purview and Microsoft 365 compliance solutions and services together into a single brand. Together, these solutions help your organization to:

• Gain visibility into data assets across your organization
• Enable access to your data, security, and risk solutions
• Safeguard and manage sensitive data across clouds, apps, and endpoints
• Manage end-to-end data risks and regulatory compliance
• Empower your organization to govern, protect, and manage data in new, comprehensive ways

Coming to the actual question: what is the difference between the two Microsoft Purviews:

1) Microsoft Purview compliance portal from Office 365 Portal https://compliance.microsoft.com/homepage

Microsoft Purview includes risk and compliance solutions that support services included in Microsoft 365. These services include Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, and others. These compliance and risk solutions help your organization to:

• Protect sensitive data across clouds, apps, and devices
• Identify data risks and manage regulatory compliance requirements
• Get started with regulatory compliance

2) Microsoft Purview from the Azure Portal https://web.purview.azure.com/

Microsoft Purview includes unified data governance solutions that help you manage data services across your on-premises, multi-cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) estate. That includes Azure storage services, Power BI, databases like SQL or Hive, file services like Amazon S3, and many more.

These governance solutions are accessible through the Microsoft Purview governance portal, which provides tools to enable your organization to:

• Create an up-to-date map of your entire data estate that includes data classification and end-to-end lineage
• Identify where sensitive data is stored in your estate
• Create a secure environment for data consumers to find valuable data
• Generate insights about how your data is stored and used

For more details, refer to What is Microsoft Purview?.

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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