Capabilities Covered by Tools – Data Democratization, Governance, and Security

Capabilities Covered by Tools

Data discovery is a process of automating the identifying, classifying, and tagging of sensitive data in both the source and the target. For large volumes and varieties of data moving in and out of multiple systems, it becomes costly to identify and manage sensitive data. Data discovery enables organizations to accelerate the data life cycle and scale the enforcement of data privacy rules consistently.

The data catalog consists of the data dictionary and business definitions. Data Integrators and connectors with ability to access hybrid or multi-cloud environment systems (e.g. connection among clouds, connections from cloud to on-premise.

Lineage is the ability to track the linkage of data systems from source to target. If there is a change in a column in a source, one should be able to see the flow within tables and its impact on integrity.

Auditing is the ability to gather real-time data usage/adoption to ensure compliance. Auditing and reporting capabilities help you keep track of who is accessing what when and how.

Visualizing capabilities are the ability to visualize tables’ metadata, linkages, classifications, high-level data model and reporting for the benefit of easy representations and understanding of stakeholders.

Data governance tools provide the ability to establish and enforce processes, policies, standards, and tools for defining and managing data. They also provide the ability to collaborate with business users to accept or decline data change requests through a data workflow approval system, along with version control.

It is also good to have a built-in SQL editor for data analysis without switching applications.