Infogix

Fig 01 - Data360 Govern home page

Data360 and Data360 Govern sit between your data sources on the one hand and your business outcomes on the other, providing data governance, quality and management while exposing your data for consumption. The latter can be achieved via search, which provides access to all assets (data or not) as well as any related information, or its data catalogue, each of which can be accessed via the (customisable) home page shown in Figure 1. The product in general is easy to use and is well suited for business users. However, it is also capable of displaying increased granularity and technical detail when required.

The aforementioned home page provides access to your business glossary, as well as governance assets such as business rules, dashboards, metrics, and so on. These governance assets can in large part be prepopulated using Infogix’ standard metamodel, providing generic, out of the box rules, goals and so on that will be applicable for a wide variety of organisations and use cases.  These are flexible, and can be customised for your specific needs, or the needs of a specific industry. Regardless, they will provide a useful jump-start, and in many cases immediate value.

Fig 02 - Impact analysis in Data360 govern

All assets within the platform are equipped with a variety of information. Depending on the type of asset, this could include scoring information (with drill down to a chart of the asset’s value over time), various visualisations (such as business lineage and impact analysis, the latter of which is shown in Figure 2), a list of any related assets (which can also be visualised via a graph), user submitted comments, a changelog, and actioning (for example, kicking off a task or workflow).

Sensitive data discovery is also supported via data profiling and semantic tagging. This is used to find sensitive data via analysis of its “data signature”, then to mark it as sensitive, personal or PII, as and when appropriate.

Data360 Govern’s greatest – though by no means only – strength is the emphasis it places on your business needs and requirements. This degree of business orientation allows it to directly address said needs at every stage of the governance process and therefore provide maximal business value with minimal waiting time. This is exemplified in the company’s iterative and ongoing implementation and assessment strategy, which implements your governance solution in a coherent, structured fashion that ensures that your most important needs are taken care of first, that priority is always given to your most pressing needs, that your solution fulfils demonstrable business goals (and hence achieves desirable business outcomes) repeatedly and throughout its lifespan, and that your solution is optimised and highly automated.

In addition, and as mentioned, the product’s standard metamodel is adept at accelerating time to value, allowing you to get up and running very quickly. What’s more, the flexibility it provides allows you to customise it iteratively as your use cases require it, meaning that changes to it can be implemented such that they always contribute to concrete business goals. This fits neatly into Infogix’ methodology of business-driven governance as described above. In combination with said methodology, this capability allows the product to provide governance to the most critical areas of your system very quickly.

The Bottom Line

Infogix Data360, and in particular Data360 Govern, provide a data governance solution that positions your business needs at the forefront of your data governance. This can only be a good thing.