Data Governance is an emerging discipline with an evolving definition. The discipline embodies a convergence of data quality, data management,
business process management, and risk management surrounding the handling of data in an organization. Through data governance,
organizations are looking to exercise positive control over the processes and methods used by their data stewards to handle
data.
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Data Quality
Data are of high quality "if they are fit for their intended uses in operations, decision making and planning" (J. M. Juran).
Alternatively, the data are deemed of high quality if they correctly represent the real-world construct to which they refer.
Furthermore, apart from these definitions, as data volume increases, the question of
internal consistency within data becomes paramount, regardless of fitness for use for any external purpose, e.g. a person's age and birth date
may conflict within different parts of a database. The first views can often be in disagreement, even about the same set of
data used for the same purpose.
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In computing,
Master Data Management (MDM) comprises a set of processes and tools that consistently defines and manages the non-transactional data entities of
an organization (also called reference data). MDM has the objective of providing processes for collecting, aggregating, matching,
consolidating, quality-assuring, persisting and distributing such data throughout an organization to ensure consistency and
control in the ongoing maintenance and application use of this information. The term recalls the concept of a
master file from an earlier computing era. MDM is similar to, and some would say the same as, virtual or federated database management
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Business intelligence refers to skills, technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its
commercial context. Business intelligence may also refer to the collected information itself.
BI technologies provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations. Common functions of business intelligence
technologies are reporting, OLAP, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, and
predictive analytics.
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