by Angela Guess
A new article insists, “Certainly, one of the requirements of the business is to have good data quality in the business systems. As data professionals, we are trained to address this requirement in a specific approach. First, we document the company’s business rules in a data model. We can then use that data model in two major ways: 1) as a guide to systems development and 2) to generate data quality reports. These efforts are certainly both valid and productive.”
It continues, “However, I would argue that even when companies successfully use their data model as described (which is not easy), they still have an incomplete implementation of data governance on behalf of the business owners. The implementation is incomplete in at least two respects: the data model does not and cannot capture all the data requirements of the business owners; and the data model does not and cannot capture the business process requirements for managing data as it relates to the business decision process.”
