Jan 30, 2022 Rahul Sharma

I. Introduction

Data Governance is the practice of implementing policies and procedures to guarantee enterprise data availability, usability, integrity, and security. It starts with the business users and involves several stakeholders in an enterprise.

A good data governance plan enables an enterprise to:

1. Break data silos; improve collaboration
2. Make business decisions with accurate information
3. Avoid errors and misuse of sensitive data
4. Stay compliant e.g., GDPR, CCPA
5. Optimize operations
6. Create new products and services
7. Improve profitability

The four pillars of data governance are:

1. Data stewardship
2. Data quality
3. MDM
4. Data governance use cases