{"id":3132,"date":"2021-07-08T18:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T01:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lightsondata.com\/?post_type=tva_lesson&#038;p=3132"},"modified":"2021-12-23T19:12:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:12:24","slug":"selecting-a-data-governance-tool","status":"publish","type":"tva_lesson","link":"https:\/\/www.lightsondata.com\/course\/selecting-a-data-governance-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Selecting a Data Governance Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following aspects of data governance can be managed, simplified, automated (sometimes) using tools:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Policy, standard, process development<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Document policies, standards, processes<\/li>\n<li>Lineage<\/li>\n<li>Relationship to guiding principles, regulations, data domains<\/li>\n<li>People responsible for their maintenance and enforcement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Operational support<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assign and manage roles and responsibilities<\/li>\n<li>Capture organizational framework<\/li>\n<li>Manage user permission level<\/li>\n<li>Configure workflows and change management processes<\/li>\n<li>Track metrics and issue resolution processes<\/li>\n<li>Document TOR, guidelines, meeting notes, other documents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Business metadata management<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maintain business semantics (i.e. Business Glossary)<\/li>\n<li>Relationship to data lineage, data element, data quality, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Data management elements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maintain data elements and technical metadata<\/li>\n<li>Manage reference data<\/li>\n<li>Track data lineage, data model, data classification<\/li>\n<li>Monitor and enforce data quality<\/li>\n<li>Check data profiling results, data quality metrics, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Data Governance Tools<\/h2>\n<p>There are numerous tools that can do some of the aspects above, but there is no perfect tool that could do it all very well. Please watch out for tools that just cover one or a couple of the aspects above. There are a bunch of vendors that just offer a data catalog, or data dictionary, or data lineage (for example) and they call themselves a &#8220;data governance tool&#8221;. While it does cover an aspect of data governance, there are many more that it does not cover.<\/p>\n<p>Example of vendors and tools, some with less and some with more capabilities (listed in alphabetical order)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/adaptive.com\/products\/adaptive-metadata-manager\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">Adaptive Metadata Manager<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alation.com\/product\/data-catalog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">Alation Data Catalog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ataccama.com\/focus\/data-governance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ataccama ONE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collibra.com\/data-governance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collibra<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dataedo.com\/pricing?coupon=LightsOnData1rx\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Dataedo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/analytics\/data-governance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">IBM Data Governance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.informatica.com\/ca\/products\/data-quality\/axon-data-governance.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Informatica Axon<\/a>&nbsp;(former Diaku)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infogix.com\/data3sixty\/data-gov-govern\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">Infogix Data360 Data Governance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/services\/data-catalog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">Microsoft Azure Data Catalog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ovaledge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OvalEdge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisely.com\/products\/verify\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Precisely Trillium<\/a>&nbsp;(former Trillium)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sap.com\/products\/master-data-governance.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SAP Master Data Governance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.com\/content\/dam\/SAS\/en_us\/doc\/factsheet\/sas-data-governance-106055.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SAS Data Governance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talend.com\/products\/data-integrity-governance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talend Data Integrity and Data Governance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-3132","tva_lesson","type-tva_lesson","status-publish","hentry","tva_courses-practical-data-governance","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LightsOnData<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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