Deep Dive on Data Governance Platforms: Three Tools to Consider
Organizations' desire to maximize the untapped potential of all their data assets is stymied by piecemeal attempts to manually govern data silos without a consistent and cohesive view of corporate data. Combined with consumers’ endemic distrust of data, organizations need a better way to govern and manage their data. Data governance platforms promise to unify disparate governance efforts into a single integrated platform.
A data governance platform is a unified suite of products with a common user interface and a common code base that delivers end-to-end governance capabilities. These capabilities consist of data profiling, data catalog, business glossary, policy engine, lineage, data quality, MDM, security, and data privacy modules.
Today the market is flooded with scores of data catalogs. The first generation of these products were static and disconnected data dictionaries. The second generation added more dynamic features and integrations with complementary products. However, this approach still leads to a proliferation of multiple tools which limits an organization's ability to offer a comprehensive solution. This is where data governance platforms shine as they provide wide-ranging capabilities in a unified platform.
This report profiles three leading data governance platforms from OvalEdge, Alation, and Informatica. Data leaders can use the report to evaluate which data governance platforms are best suited to their requirements.