Data Governance - Further Information

Federated master data management is a new and vital approach for trusted data in the modern enterprise.

What is Data Monetisation, why should you care about it, and how does YourDataConnect deliver it? An update to our 2020 report of the same name.

This Market Update focuses on vendors specialising in data quality that do not also provide data integration capabilities.

Datactics is a data quality platform oriented around self-service. It provides solutions for data quality, data matching, and single customer view.

Data Ladder provides a data quality management suite that includes all the sorts of capabilities that one would expect.

DQ Global offers a number of different products, all of which are focused on data quality and all of which are targeted at customer data.

D&B Optimizer is a data quality offering targeted at B2B environments and it is aimed at managing both customer and supplier relationships.

Experian Aperture Data Studio is a data quality and enrichment platform that includes data profiling and data quality analysis.

Global IDs’ product portfolio consists of a number of individual tools within the Data Ecosystem Evolution Platform.

The Syniti Knowledge Platform (previously BackOffice Associates) is a single product providing a unified solution for data management.

This (Cloud) Data Management report compares platform-based approaches that support data integration to/from cloud-based deployments.

The basic concept behind the Talend Data Fabric is to allow you to collect, govern, transform, and share your data.

SOLIXCloud is a cloud data management platform from Solix Technologies that provides four primary solutions.

The Qlik Data Integration Platform is essentially a melding of the capabilities provided through the acquisitions of Podium Data and Attunity.

Oracle’s data management capabilities span the establishment of (cloud-based) data warehouses and data lakes.

The Intelligent Data Platform encompasses data integration, quality, governance, MDM, cataloguing, privacy, application integration, and more.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data places particular emphasis on deploying, developing and managing AI and machine learning models.

The Lumada DataOps Suite from Hitachi Vantara supports everything from ingestion through to analysis and dashboards.

Cloudera Data Platform offers data integration, data governance, data cataloguing and transformation capability but not data quality per se.

Ataccama ONE encompasses data integration, data cataloguing, data profiling and data quality, and both reference and master data management.

MarkLogic Data Hub is a fully cloud-native platform for data storage, integration, operationalisation and governance.

Silwood Safyr is a software product which supports customers who need to exploit metadata in their ERP and CRM systems.

This paper discusses the need to support Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) and the MENTIS Data and Application Security Platform as a solution.

This report discusses Data Monetisation as a field separate from Data Governance, and evaluates YourDataConnect’s solution in light of this.

Data is not the only contributor to digital transformation, but it is a key asset that can enable those transformations.

Powered by CoSort (or Hadoop), and built on Eclipse, IRI Voracity is a multi-purpose data management platform.

Data governance, as a space, has matured significantly over the past few years. This Market Update examines and competitively evaluates the vendors therein.

The Ab Initio Metadata Hub acts as the data governance component for Ab Initio’s data management platform.

This paper describes and evaluates Alex Solutions’ data governance offering, a platform that provides a range of metadata management capabilities.

DEMS, short for Data Excellence Management System, is a data governance and data quality platform.

IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog, itself part of IBM Cloud Pak for Data, is a data catalogue and data governance solution.

Infogix Data360 is a browser-based, enterprise-ready data intelligence platform consisting of Data360 Govern, Data360 DQ+, and Data360 Analyze.

Informatica Axon Data Governance provides browser-based, business level access to a variety of enterprise grade data governance capabilities.

SAP Information Steward, assisted by integration with SAP Data Services, is an enterprise-ready data governance solution.

Solix Common Data Platform is a broadly applicable ‘Big Data Application Framework’ that provides an information architecture for your data-driven enterprise.

The Syniti Knowledge Platform is a unified solution for data governance and management with a variety of functions.

TopQuadrant TopBraid Enterprise Data Governance (EDG) is a data governance platform built on RDF knowledge graphs.

This Market Update discusses, reviews and compares products specialising in the discovery of sensitive data.

Ab Initio Semantic Discovery is a data discovery solution offered as part of Ab Initio’s broader data management platform.

The Lumada Data Catalog from Hitachi Vantara is a data catalogue targeted at both the enterprise data lake and traditional data environments.

Seeker DLP finds sensitive data within files on Windows and Macs, across SMB-based file servers and web servers.

STEALTHbits supports discovery against a comprehensive list of file systems, SharePoint and OneDrive, Exchange, Dropbox, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

DataSunrise supports the discovery of sensitive data across a wide range of both relational and NoSQL data sources.

Solix Common Data Platform acts as a one stop shop for the management and governance of all enterprise data.

Dataguise started by offering sensitive data discovery and masking but now includes, additionally, encryption/decryption and extensive reporting.

MENTIS iDiscover offers a range of modules that cover all necessary functions for discovering, protecting and monitoring sensitive data.

BigID specialises in (sensitive) data discovery and classification and unlike other vendors has been built from the ground up to concentrate in this area.

Enterprise Recon offers enterprise-wide discovery of personal, PII and PCI data in accordance with a wide range of compliance regulations.

Informatica Data Privacy Management is a datacentric privacy, governance and security solution that is focused on discovering and classifying sensitive data.

Global IDs offers data discovery and classification as part of its EDA platform, thereby providing sensitive data discovery and compliance with regulations.

This document provides a snapshot of the current state of the Data Quality market.

Experian SCV consists of several components, the main one of which is Experian Aperture Data Studio along with various other elements.

Alex Solutions is an enterprise level solution for metadata management, as well as data governance, data stewardship, data cataloguing, and data quality.

Every organisation faces risk, uncertainty and security threats, yet must comply with a host of regulations. GRC helps to manage those issues to keep an organisation on track.

Reltio’s “modern data management” platform provides a native cloud environment that enables the deployment of data-driven applications for a variety of use cases.

Informatica Axon Data Governance is a data governance product that supports data stewardship, data quality and data monitoring.

Governing your data is important and extremely hot in the wake of GDPR. But how can you do it, and how can data governance help?

This paper considers the requirements of GDPR and then discusses how MENTIS meets those requirements.

This paper compares the capabilities of IBM, Informatica and MENTIS for the discovery and governance of sensitive data.

The UK government has little option but to rethink the way it operates by moving beyond digital transformation to digital reinvention.

In this paper, we have identified the potential significance of a wide range of data-based technologies that impact on the move to a data-driven environment.

This Market Update compares the capabilities of various data governance vendors.

And why a good solution may be better than a perfect one.

In this paper, we discuss Collibra Data Governance Center and its data governance capabilities.

Data-driven enterprises need to understand the business value of the data they intend to leverage - and govern that data on that basis.

This paper compares the offerings provided by DATUM, Collibra and Informatica with respect to policy-driven data governance.

What you need to think about when implementing a data lake.

In this paper, we discuss Informatica's Intelligent Data Platform and, in particular, its data governance capabilities.

And it's not Data Stewardship, either

Before a CDO can think sensibly about what data the business might want to leverage they must get a handle on the data assets that the company already possesses.

This paper discusses why data lakes need to be managed and the sorts of capabilities that are required to manage them.

Discovering and understanding your data landscape is a necessary condition for meeting the functional requirements of a CDO

This document outlines how an integrated data protection platform can take the pain out of compliance, helping them to avoid data breaches.

This paper discusses the EU's forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) not from a legal perspective but from the point of view of data management.

Welcome to the first edition of our brand new MiniMag

Stories are becoming broader and that doesn't necessarily make life easier

The market for data governance is diffuse. Historically, there have been, and remain, several different sectors...

Further thoughts on Data Protection issues and Big Data.

Individuals' consent is 'almost always' required by firms when using personal data in big data projects centred on profiling and that's a governance issue which perhaps needs legal, as much as IT, advice

Until now there has been no easy, inexpensive and compliant way for banks to share information about "bad people"

FATCA is US-imposed law that applies both to US and non-US financial institutions. In the latter case it applies whenever you have US citizens as clients

There is much work to be done in providing true data governance solutions. However, there is no point in attempting to boil the ocean.

There is much work to be done in providing true data governance solutions. Both users and suppliers should take note.

Data governance as currently practised is not good enough

If you want to have proper governance over spreadsheets you need to understand the processes involved in creating and using spreadsheets.

Trillium Software has recently launched TrilliumApps: this could change the face of the software industry.

It is nearly three years since we last published a report into the status of the spreadsheet management market.

The advantages of a maturity model are that it helps you to assess where you are and where you want to get to and, based on that recognition, can assist in putting a realistic plan together in order to manage…

Organisations face an increasing amount of regulation that enforces, among other things, higher standards of corporate governance.

Bribery laws are coming to the UK, which will introduce a new area of compliance and opportunity for log management vendors

I have just received an email from CA that, amongst other things, includes details of a press release announcing a partnership between CA and Acxiom to deliver a cloud-based information governance...

Before attempting to answer this question I'll say why it is important: it's important because if you don't know who owns data then you don't know who is responsible for it and you don't know who...

The problem with GRC (governance, risk and compliance) is that it's not a three-way issue. At minimum, there are four or five different forms of governance, two types of compliance and seven...