What is Data Governance?

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What is Data Governance?
Asystem of decision rights and responsibility for information-related processes, executed according to previously agreed models that describe who can take what action and with what information, when, under what circumstances and with what methods.” In short, these are the policies on access to data within the company.


What is Data Governance?
Here we will tell you what data governance is and what it is for, since we consider it important to know its functions in an organization.

Data Governance, as its name indicates, refers to the ig database that an organization has over the information it handles. This means that we can always know who last manipulated specific data, or where the data comes from.

What kind of companies use data governance?

All companies and organizations should have data governance as one of their main functions. Let's take as an example a medium-sized clothing store with a few branches. Imagine that without data governance, any employee is able to delete your price list, or worse, the contact details of your suppliers, payment receipts, an infinite number of situations that could occur if you do not have control over "who does what" with your information and even worse if you did not have the backup.