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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO Business Intelligence

The Business Application Research Center (BARC) warns that data governance is a highly complex, ongoing program, not a “big bang initiative,” and it runs the risk of participants losing trust and interest over time. Data-related decisions, processes, and controls subject to data governance must be auditable.

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Top 6 Benefits of Automating End-to-End Data Lineage

erwin

For example, automatically importing mappings from developers’ Excel sheets, flat files, Access and ETL tools into a comprehensive mappings inventory, complete with auto generated and meaningful documentation of the mappings, is a powerful way to support overall data governance. Data quality is crucial to every organization.

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Create a modern data platform using the Data Build Tool (dbt) in the AWS Cloud

AWS Big Data

As part of their cloud modernization initiative, they sought to migrate and modernize their legacy data platform. This popular open-source tool for data warehouse transformations won out over other ETL tools for several reasons. The tool also offered desirable out-of-the-box features like data lineage, documentation, and unit testing.

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Using Strategic Data Governance to Manage GDPR/CCPA Complexity

erwin

Modern, strategic data governance , which involves both IT and the business, enables organizations to plan and document how they will discover and understand their data within context, track its physical existence and lineage, and maximize its security, quality and value.

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A step-by-step guide to setting up a data governance program

IBM Big Data Hub

Realize that a data governance program cannot exist on its own – it must solve business problems and deliver outcomes. Start by identifying business objectives, desired outcomes, key stakeholders, and the data needed to deliver these objectives. So where are you in your data governance journey?

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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None Shall Pass! Are Your Database Standards Too Rigid?

TDAN

Database standards are common practices and procedures that are documented and […]. Rigidly adhering to a standard, any standard, without being reasonable and using your ability to think through changing situations and circumstances is itself a bad standard.