Data Governance: How to Design, Deploy and Sustain an Effective Data Governance Program (Morgan Kaufmann Series on Business Intelligence)

Data governance is the management of an organization's data assets, specifically availability, usability, integrity and security of those assets. This book is for any manager or team leader who has the green light to implement a data governance program. The problem of managing data continues to grow with issues surrounding cost of storage, exponential growth, and administrative, management and security concerns - the solution to being able to scale all of these issues up is data governance, which provides better services to users and saves money. The reader will receive an overview of why data governance is needed, how to design, initiate, and execute a program and how to keep the program sustainable.