by Angela Guess
Dr. David Waddington of The Information Difference recently explored the question of whether both Data Governance and Master Data Management are needed within the same company. He writes, ” In late 2011, The Information Difference initiated a survey, sponsored by Pitney Bowes Software, aimed at better understanding the views of businesses regarding their current data governance and MDM initiatives. In particular we wanted to get feedback from respondents who have both data governance activities and MDM projects, to see to what extent the two really are linked.”
Waddington continues, “Approximately 110 respondents from across the world completed the survey, with 71 percent from North America (including Canada), 23 percent from Europe and the remainder (6 percent) from the rest of the world. Almost two-thirds (66 percent) of the respondents were from larger organizations with annual revenues greater than U.S. $1 billion.”
He goes on, “The average age of MDM programs was reported as just less than five years and that of data governance programs around four years. Some 64 percent of the organizations surveyed reported that they currently have both live data governance and MDM programs. So it appears that data governance and MDM programs were started around the same time and can now be considered as relatively mature. Clearly organizations have understood the message that the two initiatives are closely linked.”
photo credit: The Information Difference
