The IBM Data Governance Unified Process

Product Description Look Inside the Book Author Bio Specifications Data Governance has become an industry buzzword, but it means different things to different people. The definition of Data Governance is similar to the tale of the blind men and the elephant. Depending on their background and business situation, practitioners tend to equate Data Governance with one or more of metadata, business glossaries, Master Data Governance, Analytics Governance, Security and Privacy, and Information Lifecycle Governance. All these definitions are correct, but they are incomplete. Data Governance is the discipline of treating data as an enterprise asset. It involves the exercise of decision rights to optimize, secure, and leverage data as an enterprise asset. Several Data Governance initiatives start and stop with a maturity assessment. So you have discovered that you are relatively immature; now what do you do next? What are the steps to implement a Data Governance program? This book describ