Data governance tools organize all of an organization’s data into an easy-to-navigate data catalog, allowing anyone who have the right rights to look at and collaborate in minutes. They also automatize some tasks, helping to improve productivity and free up the time of the teams working on data to focus on more complicated issues. They can increase the knowledge of data across the organization by providing self-service access.
Hevo’s Data Governance Tool offers a comprehensive set of data management features, which include metadata, a catalog of data, management, and data lineage. It also offers a platform to define the standard business glossary and data assets such as PII, data assets and other standards that can be automatically managed using sophisticated algorithms. The product is a cloud-based, on-prem option that supports an federated governance system that is governed by a central system that oversees master data attributes that are core to the system while the application-specific attributes are handled by distinct governance systems within business units and departments.
Alation is a different vendor that provides a full set of data governance capabilities in its data catalog. The underlying technology scans databases, data lakes, and data warehouses to find metadata and employ automated analysis to determine the types of data. The data stewardship tool allows users to create policies and assign roles and also includes an analytics engine that can show possible trends in the use of data over time. Alation has a wide range of customers that include GlaxoSmithKline as well as the Singapore Tourism Board, Air France, NASDAQ and Autozone.
Erwin is another option, that combines data management and other functions into an integrated software suite. It links physical metadata with specific business terms and allows users to locate relevant information and collect it. It also permits them to assess lineage and audit the data sets to ensure conformance. It also allows organizations to apply version controls to data quality standards and governance guidelines as well as monitor changes to metadata with its Data Jumpstart service.