Chapter 7

The Important Roles of Data Stewards

Abstract

This chapter discusses the key roles that Business Data Stewards have in improving data quality, managing reference data, many aspects of master data management, information security, Quality Assurance support, business process risk assessment, permissions for data storage and use, and metadata management.

Keywords

Roles; Data Quality; Identity resolution; metadata management; reference data; rules; master data management; lineage; privacy

Introduction

Business Data Stewards play an extremely important role in many enterprise processes and initiatives that work with data. These roles include inspecting and improving data quality, managing reference data, many of the aspects of master data management ...

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