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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO Business Intelligence

Data governance definition Data governance is a system for defining who within an organization has authority and control over data assets and how those data assets may be used. It encompasses the people, processes, and technologies required to manage and protect data assets.

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Alation and Salesforce partner on data governance for Data Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

It will do this, it said, with bidirectional integration between its platform and Salesforce’s to seamlessly delivers data governance and end-to-end lineage within Salesforce Data Cloud. Alation is a founding member, along with Collibra.

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Data governance in the age of generative AI

AWS Big Data

Data is your generative AI differentiator, and a successful generative AI implementation depends on a robust data strategy incorporating a comprehensive data governance approach. Data governance is a critical building block across all these approaches, and we see two emerging areas of focus.

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3 powerful lessons of using data governance frameworks

CIO Business Intelligence

The first published data governance framework was the work of Gwen Thomas, who founded the Data Governance Institute (DGI) and put her opus online in 2003. They already had a technical plan in place, and I helped them find the right size and structure of an accompanying data governance program.

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Security Reference Architecture Summary for Cloudera Data Platform

Cloudera

Auditing has been setup for data in the metastore. Ideally, the cluster has been setup so that lineage for any data object can be traced (data governance). The secure cluster is one in which all data, both data-at-rest and data-in-transit, is encrypted and the key management system is fault-tolerant.

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The Value of Catalog-Led Data Governance

Alation

The practitioner asked me to add something to a presentation for his organization: the value of data governance for things other than data compliance and data security. Now to be honest, I immediately jumped onto data quality. Data quality is a very typical use case for data governance.

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Organize content across business units with enterprise-wide data governance using Amazon DataZone domain units and authorization policies

AWS Big Data

Amazon DataZone has announced a set of new data governance capabilities—domain units and authorization policies—that enable you to create business unit-level or team-level organization and manage policies according to your business needs. Data domains form a foundational pillar in data governance frameworks.