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JBNFM
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Feb 16, 2026

Future - Purview vs Fabric for governance

I was wondering if anyone else was struggling to determine where exactly the future of Purview is regarding Data Governance?  I see Microsoft pushing a ton of Data Governance functions into Fabric along with promoting the Catalog and Governance capabilities are in Fabric, but this doesn't cover the Enterprise.  We are working to build a more robust Enterprise Data Governance solution, but I'm struggling to find reasons to build out Purview with all of the direction in expanding Fabric more than I hear news around Purview.  Purview doesn't even ingest metadata on tables and columns from Fabric Lakehouse and Warehouse?  Hoping gather other's experience and view points.

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    milgo
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    Feb 18, 2026

    Hello and thanks for reaching out.
    Purview is the enterprise governance plane; Fabric is the analytics plane. I don't think Fabric will replace Purview as Purview remains the system of record for enterprise-wide governance. Fabric governance features are intentionally scoped to Fabric workloads, whereas Purview governs the entire data estate.
    I agree on the metadata concern which is valid. This has been submitted as feedback. There is quite a ton of work being done on Purview as evident on the roadmap here 

    https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/microsoft/final/en-us/microsoft-brand/documents/MS-Purview-Data-Governance-Roadmap-detailed.pdf
    I believe at end of the day, organizations should work to build enterprise governance in Purview (domains, glossary, policies, lineage, security) and let Fabric consume and honor that governance for analytics.