Overview of IBM Stewardship Center

IBM Stewardship Center helps bridge the gap between business and IT users by providing a central browser-based interface where they can collaborate on and manage data quality issues.

As many data stewards become increasingly responsible for improving the value of their data assets, they need capabilities to help them manage these new requirements. Data stewards are being asked to handle a diverse set of scenarios, including:

Collaborating across multiple lines of business to build information policies that support regulatory requirements
Assessing the cost of poor data quality and managing such data quality issues to closure
Engaging subject matter experts through business processes to review and approve corporate glossary changes

Data stewards and data steward managers use the tools and processes that are provided by IBM Stewardship Center to tackle these data governance and quality challenges.

IBM Stewardship Center leverages the strengths of IBM® Business Process Manager to offer solutions to these challenges that can be used immediately or can be customized or extended to suit the specific needs of your organization. The capabilities that are provided with IBM Stewardship Center are divided into three categories: data quality exception management, governance and workflow notification, and performance metrics.

Data Quality Exception Management: The data quality exception management capabilities that are provided with IBM Stewardship Center include a prebuilt and customizable workflow that you can use to improve the quality of your information assets and integrated collaboration tools that connect members of your data quality team with other teams in your organization.
Governance and Workflow Notification: The governance and workflow notification capabilities that are provided with IBM Stewardship Center include prebuilt workflows to notify users of glossary and asset activities and allow them to approve rule changes in the InfoSphere® Information Governance Dashboard to define and drive the organization's data quality agenda.
Performance Metrics: The performance metrics capabilities that are provided with IBM Stewardship Center include tools that help users monitor task status for tasks that are overdue or at risk, monitor task turnover rate, and monitor open tasks for the coming week.

IBM Stewardship Center includes these components:

The Data Quality Exception sample process application, which is a sample workflow for resolving data quality issues, which can be customized or extended.
The Stewardship Center Application Toolkit, which can be used to extend the capabilities of the Data Quality Exception sample process application or to create your own custom workflows.
The Email Notification process application, which can be used to notify users by email when governance events are generated in Information Governance Catalog.
The Governance Rule Approval process application, which can be used to manage approvals for information governance rules from Information Governance Catalog.