You're reading from Data Governance Handbook A practical approach to building trust in data

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803240725

Length 394 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Data Governance

Author (1):

Wendy S. Batchelder

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Designing the Path to Trusted Data

2. Chapter 1: What Is Data Governance? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: How to Build a Coalition of Advocates

4. Chapter 3: Building a High-Performing Team

5. Chapter 4: Baseline Your Organization

6. Chapter 5: Defining Success and Aligning on Outcomes

7. Part 2:Data Governance Capabilities Deep Dive

8. Chapter 6: Metadata Management

9. Chapter 7: Technical Metadata and Data Lineage

10. Chapter 8: Data Quality

11. Chapter 9: Data Architecture

12. Chapter 10: Primary Data Management

13. Chapter 11: Data Operations

14. Part 3:Building Trust through Value-Based Delivery

15. Chapter 12: Launch Powerfully

16. Chapter 13: Delivering Quick Wins with Impact

17. Chapter 14: Data Automation for Impact and More Powerful Results

18. Chapter 15: Adoption That Drives Business Success

19. Chapter 16: Delivering Trusted Results with Outcomes That Matter

20. Part 4:Case Study

21. Chapter 17: Case Study – Financial Institution

22. Index

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The value of metadata management

When I think about the value of data management capabilities, I think about value in terms of what can I do after I deploy this capability that I am not able to do today. How do I measure this difference? It may be in dollars saved, fines avoided, hours of employee time that is saved, revenue that is generated, opportunity value unlocked, or some combination thereof. Any of these value vectors can make the capability worth deploying.

The difference with metadata is that subsequent data management capabilities (as we will explore in Chapters 7–11) will not reach their full potential without metadata capabilities in place. Thus, this capability is foundational, which also needs to be accounted for when measuring the value of metadata management. There are five core tenants to the value of metadata management capabilities: