Data Governance Strategy.

Your Situation and Challenges

You’ve implemented Alation. But the amount of data in your organization is growing and you need to take a formal approach to govern data with Alation at the center.

You’ve chosen to forego the typical command-and-control approach precisely because it leaves individuals frustrated and disengaged. As with Alation for searching and using trusted data, you are thinking differently about data governance,

You wish to enable better data use and automate governance processes to support a DataOps approach, perhaps even Data Mesh.

Alation is THE self-service front door to an organization’s data.

The business will keep adding or changing its use cases. While Alation certainly helps with understanding Data Quality, it won’t fix it. How can you scale and add self-service Data Quality?

Also, even though the need for a data governance program is often clear, you want to avoid missing the mark with Data Governance efforts that are not directly tied to delivering measurable business value. Initiatives should support strategic key initiatives as well as value streams and the business capabilities that support them. Alation data quality can also be integrated.

Incept's plan for setting up and keeping up effective Data Governance in organizations using Alation is based on making sure that organizational value streams and their business capabilities are well aligned with key data governance dimensions and initiatives.

You should also push automation as far as possible so as to spend time using the data. Select and integrate the right technologies with Alation to enable a data fabric that lets people work on their data, not spending time cleaning it.

Finally, you need to understand your culture and your current data governance capabilities so that you can build a future state that is just right and impactful.

Situation

Challenges

Insight

Leverage What You Have: Alation

We will help you define a Data Governance Program that works, delivers business value, and maximizes the use of what you already have: Alation.

Should you need additional capabilities, we will help you to make sure your Data Governance environment is seamless and integrated.

David Menninger, SVP & Research Director, Ventana Research

“Data governance is changing in organizations. The typical command-and-control approach fails precisely because it leaves individuals frustrated and disengaged. Alation’s Data Governance App allows organizations to change the way they think about data governance, enabling better data use and automating governance processes to support a DataOps approach.”

Establish Business Context and Value

  • Establish business context, value, and scope of data governance at the organization

  • Introduction to Incept’s data governance framework

  • Discuss vision and mission for data governance

  • Understand your business architecture, including your business capability map and value streams

  • Build use cases aligned to core business capabilities

Understand Current Data Governance Capabilities and Plot Target-State Levels

  • Understand your current data governance capabilities and maturity in the context of Alation data quality.

  • Set target-state data governance capabilities

  • Evaluate and prioritize performance gaps

  • Develop and consolidate data governance target-state initiatives

  • Define the role of data governance: data domain to data governance roles mapping

Formulate a Plan to Get to Your Target State

  • Identify and prioritize next steps

  • Define roles and responsibilities and complete a high-level RACI. Recommendations on culture and teaming.

  • Align initiatives on a roadmap, with assumptions, risks, and cost-complexity/benefit priorities

  • Let us help you more effectively manage the availability, usability, integrity, and security of the data in systems, based on your current gaps, internal data standards, and policies that also control data usage.

    Effective data governance ensures that data is consistent and trustworthy and doesn't get misused. Maximize what Alation can do first, and only add what you need, as you need it.

    Data Quality will be an element that needs to be added, but we want to make sure it enables self-service, that it can scale, and that it not only monitors but fixes data issues, without human intervention as much as possible.

    Other aspects would be Master Data and Reference Data Management, Privacy

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Avoid the pitfalls of a Data Governance initiative that is not aligned with business value, not in harmony with your culture and technology, or that doesn’t leverage the learning from the many client experiences we benefit from. Team Incept’s experience will help you review and modernize Data Governance so that you can trust that data is consistent and trustworthy and doesn't get misused.