Data Governance Process

A Data Governance Process is a control management process for data resources.

• Context:
  • It can be enforced by Data Stewards / Data Custodians.
  • It can be associated with a Data Governance Policy composed of Data Governance Rules, such as:
    • PII must be encrypted.
    • Do not keep data longer than is necessary.
    • Sensitive information must be shared on a need-to-know basis.
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• Example(s)e:
  • Sony Interactive Entertainment's data governance process.
  • Google's data governance process.
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• Counter-Example(s)e:
  • Fiscal Governance.
• See: Quality Control, Control (Management), Organizational Data, Data Steward, Data Custodian.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/data_governance Retrieved:2021-11-17.
  • Data governance is a term used on both a macro and a micro level. The former is a political concept and forms part of international relations and Internet governance; the latter is a data management concept and forms part of corporate data governance.

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/data_governance Retrieved:2017-3-31.
  • Data governance is a control that ensures that the data entry by an operations team member or by automated processes meets precise standards, such as a business rule, a data definition and data integrity constraints in the data model. The data governor uses data quality monitoring against production data to communicate errors in data back to operational team members, or to the technical support team, for corrective action. Data governance is used by organizations to exercise control over processes and methods used by their data stewards and data custodians in order to improve data quality.

    Data governance is a set of processes that ensures that important data assets are formally managed throughout the enterprise. Data governance ensures that data can be trusted and that people can be made accountable for any adverse event that happens because of low data quality. It is about putting people in charge of fixing and preventing issues with data so that the enterprise can become more efficient. Data governance also describes an evolutionary process for a company, altering the company’s way of thinking and setting up the processes to handle information so that it may be utilized by the entire organization. It’s about using technology when necessary in many forms to help aid the process. When companies desire, or are required, to gain control of their data, they empower their people, set up processes and get help from technology to do it.

    According to one vendor, data governance is a quality control discipline for assessing, managing, using, improving, monitoring, maintaining, and protecting organizational information. It is a system of decision rights and accountabilities for information-related processes, executed according to agreed-upon models which describe who can take what actions with what information, and when, under what circumstances, using what methods.

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