The Insider's Guide to Next-Generation BPM
By Ravi Shankar, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Siperian Inc. , 07/07/2008
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In large organizations, data governance and its practice typically germinates either from a top-down approach led by a key executive -- say, a Chief Financial Officer -- or from a bottom-up approach, driven by business unit stakeholders who understand the importance of data ownership and data management to their success. Yet, either approach can readily stall, run into a political logjam, or fail if critical questions have not been raised and addressed in advance of embarking upon a solid data governance initiative. In a report entitled "A Data Governance Manifesto: Designing and Deploying Sustainable Data Governance," Jill Dyche, co-founder of Baseline Consulting and author of the report, warned: "Without a sound description of the problems being solved, as well as clear communications around key decisions and the authority to make them, data governance can fail before it really begins."
Master Data Governance, defined
While data is certainly ubiquitous across an organization, the practice of data governance is commonly limited to the most important types of data -- the data necessary for efficiently managing business operations and regulatory compliance. Today, this important class of data, called master data, is emerging as a critical and central component to a company's data governance efforts. More specifically, master data is a collection of common, core business data entities such as customer, product, and organization and their associated attributes and values that are considered to be core to a company's business. Master data governance (MDM), on the other hand, is the overall management of these data entities and consists of the policies, processes, controls, and audit functions required to manage and safeguard these critical corporate data assets. As a result, data governance also includes oversight of the related domains of data availability, usability, integrity and security.
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