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Published on: March 2009
Type of content: WHITE PAPER
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 13 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:
Anytime data crosses an organizational boundary, it should be governed, whether you're sharing data among business units internally or publishing data to customers, partners, auditors, and regulatory bodies externally. Organizations are under renewed pressure to ensure that compliance and accountability requirements are met as the scope of data integration broadens. In response to this situation, many organizations are turning to data governance, which establishes policies and procedures for sharing data, as well as improving data's quality, structure, and auditability.

This report, sponsored by TDWI, clears the confusion of this often involved process by drilling into the business initiatives, technical implementations, and cross-functional organizational structures with which data governance intersects. It also quantifies the state of data governance adoption and describes some of the technologies and vendor products that can help automate data governance. All this information is tailored to assist business and technical managers in planning and implementing a sustainable data governance program.