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Accelerating Enterprise Data Governance Part 1

Overview In the first of this series of three white papers, Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines what data governance is and then looks at the requirements that need to be met for full data governance to be implemented. He also discusses how to systematically build re-usable data services to automate the tasks needed to formally govern data on an enterprisewide basis in order to accelerate the time to production and guarantee rock-solid data.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	DataFlux	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Knowledge and Data Management, Data Quality, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

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