Practitioner's Guide to Operationalizing Data Governance

CHAPTER 3Data Governance and Data Management

RESULTS YOU CAN EXPECT FOCUSING PURELY ON DATA GOVERNANCE OR DATA MANAGEMENT

Data Governance and Data Management need to work hand‐in‐hand. Data Governance provides the oversight, measurement, and communication while Data Management provides the tactical operations to achieve desired outcomes. You can sit down and write policies, but if there is no measurable result that helps to meet a desired outcome, it is nothing but an academic exercise. Those programs will fail. Likewise, Data Management with no discipline or oversight continues a “wild west” culture and data environments that will only get harder to maintain and expand over time. Those programs will fail.

SAS DATA MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK

It is important to understand how Data Governance and Data Management align in support of larger business goals. A great first step to gaining this understanding is to examine an overall framework of a program and its components parts. They can be broken down into Data Governance, Data Management, Data Stewardship, Business Drivers, Solutions, and Methods. The SAS Data Management Framework shown below breaks down each of these components. After reading and understanding the different components, you are better poised to have conversations with others about how Data Governance and Data Management when aligned as part of an overall program can ...