Category: Data Governance & Quality

The word “governance” sounds scary. It evokes excessive formality, slow decisions, and top-down directives. And while bad governance is all those things (and more), good governance is a differentiator. All organizations today collect, generate, and process lots of data. Data governance is the union of people, processes, policies, and technology to oversee data for a company.

Sometimes, you practice data governance because you’re subject to some standard or regulation that mandates certain parts of it. In this case, data governance is a minimum necessity to meet the standard and no more. While staying clear of legal or regulatory trouble is definitely smart business, I’m going to show you the broader benefits of data governance for your company. In this post, we’ll explore the three major benefits for your firm through improved data governance:

• Lower technology and compliance risk
• Smoother technology implementations
• Higher return on investment through standardization

Let’s start by reviewing the fundamentals of data governance.

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Companies maintain huge volumes of data. This data may contain codes, test data, and financial information as well as a customer database. However, maintaining this data can be costly. This is because for storing huge data you have to get the services of a data center. The worst case being you may have many pieces of unused data like former customer information, for example. You may also have archived audit reports, which are no longer of any use. But how do you check what kind of data is useful and what isn’t? The answer is by carrying out a data quality audit.

In this post, we’ll discuss what a data quality audit is. We’ll also explore the process and importance of a data quality audit. Additionally, we’ll learn about the tools you can use for this job and how the process will ensure your data integrity. So, let’s get started.

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Data is highly valuable. Your organization possesses not only your data, but also your customers’ as well. Any kind of data theft or misuse may lead to huge monetary loss. In the worst case, your customers may sue you, or your organization may face bankruptcy.

So, if the data grows beyond your storage capacity, where should you store it? Let’s rephrase the question. How can you store the data securely?

The answer is data centers. But how can you be sure a data center will keep your data safe? Also, how will you know whether the data center facility is right for your storage needs? You carry out audits.

At any time, you can carry out an audit to check a data center’s performance. You can check the compliance standards and whether the facility is ready to operate. Sometimes, customers themselves carry out auditing activities. Other times, they hire a third party for auditing.

In this post, you’ll find out some important auditing activities to carry out before choosing a data center. You’ll learn what to ask while auditing the data center, so you’ll know whether the facility will keep your data safe. You’ll also find out whether the data center is certified and how its staffers would handle power outages or natural disasters. Learning all these details is an important part of finding out how to DevOps your data.

Let’s get started.

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