- **Data Governance**: Set of policies, controls and disciplines for the effective management of corporate data assets
- **Enterprise Data Modeling**: Provides a holistic view of the structure of data in a company
- **Metadata Management**: Centralizes the information about the content of data
- **Data Quality Management**: Automate processes to identify, fix and monitor data quality issues
- **Master Data Management**: Create a consolidated and unified version of data
## When not to use Data Governance?
- There is no executive sponsorship for a data governance program
- People in some departments participate, and some don’t participate
- Focus is on data that is not critical for analytics or business processes
- Goal of the Data Governance program is to implement new technologies, and the data capabilities are already mature
## Stakeholders
- **Business Personnel** Perform day-to-day operations of the business like sales, marketing..etc.
- **Business SME** Business Subject Matter Expert in their respective business department
- **Data Stewards** Responsible for Data Governance processes and activities
- **Technical Architect** Responsible for the technical architecture and design of an IT system
- **Technical Developers** Builds and maintains the technical components of an IT system