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Butch QuintoNext-Generation Big Datahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3147-0_11

11. Big Data Governance and Management

Butch Quinto1 
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Plumpton, Victoria, Australia
 

Data governance is the set of policies and processes used to formally manage an organizations’ data. Data governance is a wide topic and encompasses several functions i such as data quality, metadata management, master data management, and data security to mention a few. The main goal of data governance is to ensure that an organization’s data is secure and trustworthy.

Data governance is perhaps one of the most important parts of an organization’s information management strategy. Data governance issues such as lack of data quality or compromised data security have ...

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