Saturday, February 12, 2022

What Is: Data Governance, SLA's, and Data Contracts

Don't let perfection be the enemy of the good.   All companies struggle against entropy in process and data.  It's a never ending process.  Each day in which we succeed in conforming a dataset, filled in more values in a sparsely populated dataset, or protected customers from bad data and "Data Vandalism" is a good day to be celebrated.

Data governance is a very intense discipline that spreads across the infrastructure of a company.   It's a daunting task to implement it in a way that has traction and has some meaningful "Time to Value" for the company's investment.  The following diagram gives a summary of what Data Governance is all about in a nutshell.   (I created this "Pamphlet" 5 years ago, but it is still mostly relevant.  Sorry for the small print.  If you download and save then open up in an editor it will be easier to read.)


When you are a data provider, Data Governance is a core part of your business in which is centered around guaranteeing the SLA for your customers.   The below diagram give a summary of what an SLA and a Data Contract are.  (I created this "Pamphlet" 5 years ago too, but again it is still mostly relevant.  Again, sorry for the small print.  If you download and save then open up in an editor it will be easier to read.)




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