Integrating with a governance catalog
Data offers no competitive advantage until it can be put to use. Effective information governance strategies help enable the self-service information discovery that teams need to find, evaluate, understand, and use data. Get acquainted with the features that support a unified approach to enterprise information governance and to understand the significance of the integration of IBM® StoredIQ® with IBM Information Governance Catalog or IBM Cloud Private for Data for that strategy.
Overview of information governance
The significant growth in data volume, velocity, and variety requires enterprises to govern and manage the risk, quality, and cost of that data and provide higher confidence for its use. This is the domain of information governance. Information governance refers to the findability, usability, and integrity of the data in an enterprise.
Also, aligning the business and IT perspectives of the organization can be a particular challenge. Enforcing business guidelines on an ever amassing mountain of both structured and unstructured information can seem impossible.
Up to now, structured information, which means information that has a predefined data model or fits into relational tables, and unstructured information such as email messages, word processing documents, audio or video files, collaboration software, or instant messages had to be governed separately.
A unified governance architecture is designed to simplify and streamline information governance to support a connected and collaborative governance solution for the enterprise, enabling teams to find the data they need, evaluate its quality at a glance, and feel confident that it can be used to gain business value. Integrating IBM StoredIQ with IBM Information Governance Catalog or IBM Cloud Private for Data plays a significant role in achieving this goal by providing for a way to manage all enterprise data in one place.