Purview Compliance Manager
Atlanta, USA (United States of America)
Last updated: 2026-07-27
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Compliance Manager helps you assess and manage compliance across a multicloud environment. It inventories risks, guides you through implementing controls, and tracks progress with a risk-based compliance score.
Source: Learn about the Microsoft Purview portal.
Why it matters
Meeting regulations means implementing and evidencing many controls. Compliance Manager centralizes assessments, improvement actions, and evidence so progress is measurable and auditable.
| Without Compliance Manager | With the solution |
|---|---|
| Control status is tracked in spreadsheets | Assessments track controls in one tool |
| Priorities are unclear | The compliance score weights actions by risk |
| Evidence is scattered | Improvement actions store evidence and status |
| Microsoft-managed controls are opaque | Microsoft controls show implementation and audit detail |
Value in one line: it turns regulatory requirements into prioritized, evidenced, and measurable improvement actions.
Key elements
- Controls: requirements you, Microsoft, or both are responsible for.
- Assessments: groupings of controls for a regulation or standard.
- Regulations: hundreds of templates, plus custom templates.
- Improvement actions: guided steps with owners, evidence, and status.
Use it well
- Select the assessments that match your regulatory obligations.
- Assign improvement actions to accountable owners with due dates.
- Implement, test, and store evidence within each action.
- Track the compliance score and prioritize high-impact actions.
- Review Microsoft-managed control details when reporting to auditors.
Verify and operate
- Keep assessments aligned to the regulations you are actually obligated to meet, and archive ones you no longer need.
- Track the compliance score over time and use it to prioritize, not as a target to game.
- Store implementation and test evidence inside each improvement action so audits are self-service.
- Reassign and re-test actions when owners, systems, or regulations change.
Business example
A compliance lead creates an assessment for a required standard, assigns customer-managed improvement actions to owners, and stores implementation evidence in each action. The compliance score highlights the highest-impact remaining work, which the team prioritizes before an external audit.