by Angela Guess

A new press release states, “TopQuadrant™, a leading provider of standards-based data governance solutions, today announced the release of TopBraid 5.4, a collection of web-based solutions for Data Governance and Vocabulary Management. TopBraid Enterprise Data Governance (EDG) 5.4 delivers an integrated approach to data governance with customizable workflows, flexible governance operating framework options, enhanced visualizations, and advanced capabilities to create, manage, and view connections between technical and business metadata. ‘Implementing effective data governance processes requires integration of top-down and bottom-up approaches. TopQuadrant is committed to delivering a complete and practical solution that supports day-to-day needs of stakeholders, connecting these to the broader organizational goals and policies for data governance,’ said Irene Polikoff, CEO and co-founder of TopQuadrant.”

The release goes on, “Today’s release offers key enhancements to TopBraid EDG, including: Customizable Workflows – Users can now create and use custom workflows for various data governance and curation processes. Pre-built workflow templates are also provided. Enhanced Operating Model – TopBraid EDG’s data governance operating model options now provide access to business and data subject areas, associated governance roles, organizational structures, issues, policies, metrics, dashboard, and other governance assets. Advanced Data Profiling – Data source profiling is implemented when its metadata is imported into TopBraid EDG. This enables automated reasoning about data and connections of technical metadata to business metadata. Interactive Visualizations – Updated versions of TopBraid EDG’s unique LineageGram and NeighborGram features with intuitive capabilities for flexible viewing and drilling down on focused areas of governance knowledge graphs.”

Read more at Business Wire.

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