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The ROI of Data Governance: Seven Ways Your Data Governance Program Can Help Save You Money

Overview In difficult economic climates, responsible leaders look for opportunities to contain costs. Data governance programs are well positioned to assist in these efforts. This white paper from Gwen Thomas of the Data Governance Institute outlines seven ways that data governance and stewardship programs can help manage costs and a mechanism for quantifying the return on investment (ROI) for those contributions.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	DataFlux	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Knowledge and Data Management, Data Quality, Database Management, Database Applications

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