Data Management and Governance

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Governance
Policies
Security
Integrity
Management
Continuity

Data management is critical for any modern organisation and consists of collecting, storing, protecting and using data effectively and efficiently. This includes establishing policies, tools and procedures to maximise data usability while meeting applicable laws and regulations.

Data is considered a company’s most valuable resource, making data governance critical to its management, including policies and procedures so that an organisation can administer security, integrity and accountability across data use and establish a framework to ensure continuity of operations and technological evolution.

Data Management

Data management involves the collection, storage, protection and use of an organisation’s data. It includes all the policies, tools and procedures that improve data usability within legal and regulatory limits. All this in order to ensure the continuity of operations.

Data is considered a modern organisation’s most valuable resource.

Data Governance

Data governance includes the policies and procedures an organisation implements to manage security, integrity and responsible data use. It defines the data strategy and determines who can access which data. Governance functions typically include:

Implementation of the Maturity model: The current state of the area and the objectives to be achieved is established using DCAM as the DAMA-recommended model.
Monitoring development and implementation: Adoption of good practices, data cleaning and mapping.
Governance: Policy Implementation, Master Data Management, Data Catalogue and Data Lineage.
Data Quality: Implementation of overall data quality model, definition of compliance policies and rules, data QA cycle audit.
Domain implementation and development: Data flow mapping, general framework alignment, generation of RACI matrix by process, generation of full process documentation.