Policy Remediation sample process application

The Policy Remediation sample is a process application that you use to determine what happens to a record when the record does not meet a policy.

Business Problem: Use of master data is contingent on trust. Trust is more than just being accurate and complete. Consumers want to ensure that their business rules and constraints are represented.

The Policy Remediation sample lets the business build agile data governance-driven stewardship processes. Data governance can establish and maintain policies in the form of business rules that data must comply with. Then data stewards enforce the established policies by providing their inputs to correct the records to make them compliant with the policies.

Policy remediation helps determine what happens to a record when it does not meet a policy. For example, one department might need a customer or patient name and address only, while another department might require an identification number in order for a record to be completed and saved.

You can use the Policy Remediation process application to set up processes for the remediation of records that do not meet some or all of your organization’s policies.

A key difference between Policy Remediation and Critical Data Change is that Critical Data Change is concerned with the correctness of the data, whereas Policy Remediation is only concerned with the conformance to policy of the data. For example, Critical Data Change processes might ask a data steward to determine whether "12345" or "54321" is the correct identification number for a customer. Policy Remediation processes monitors only whether the number is blank, or contains an unacceptable (as determined by policy) value such as "00000". A typical set of data policy conditions might include the following data characteristic: data completeness and uniqueness of the golden record.

The Policy Remediation process application includes the business processes to manage records that do not meet policies that you have established. You can download the process application from the Samples and Assets site for InfoSphere® MDM.