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Data Governance Handbook

By : Wendy S. Batchelder
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Data Governance Handbook

By: Wendy S. Batchelder

Overview of this book

2.5 quintillion bytes! This is the amount of data being generated every single day across the globe. As this number continues to grow, understanding and managing data becomes more complex. Data professionals know that it’s their responsibility to navigate this complexity and ensure effective governance, empowering businesses with the right data, at the right time, and with the right controls. If you are a data professional, this book will equip you with valuable guidance to conquer data governance complexities with ease. Written by a three-time chief data officer in global Fortune 500 companies, the Data Governance Handbook is an exhaustive guide to understanding data governance, its key components, and how to successfully position solutions in a way that translates into tangible business outcomes. By the end, you’ll be able to successfully pitch and gain support for your data governance program, demonstrating tangible outcomes that resonate with key stakeholders.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1:Designing the Path to Trusted Data
7
Part 2:Data Governance Capabilities Deep Dive
14
Part 3:Building Trust through Value-Based Delivery
20
Part 4:Case Study

Data Lineage

Data Lineage is the capability that tracks and documents the journey data takes through an organization’s systems. Data lineage shows how data flows through the systems, how it is changed or manipulated along the journey, and where it is stored and ultimately used. In short, data lineage provides transparency into the data. This is critical because transparency helps us drive trust in our data. When we know what the data is and where it comes from, we trust it more, and it is a key component in understanding the data and believing what it tells us.

The other key component of a data lineage capability is it tracks the flow of data over time. Unlike some of the other data capabilities in this book, data lineage provides information about the data life cycle. By providing a clearer understanding of where data originated, how it may have been changed, and where it ultimately resides, we are able to see all the transformations the data went through along its life...