Data governance programs are beginning to make inroads and achieve success. But those successes have had their share of growing pains, with many starts and stops and with business benefits that can be difficult to measure. How can organizations establish the discipline of data governance and prove incremental success while ensuring an ongoing, sustainable and valuable program?

It all starts at the core. Implicitly, many companies begin governing data when they implement master data management or data warehousing solutions. Even without a formal governance organization in place, rules for data quality, handling of data, and access to data are defined for the key elements being brought into these managed repositories. You may view this as governance in stealth mode, but it is governance nonetheless!

In this session, learn how to:

• Institute data governance for your enterprise data assets
• Leverage the governance lessons learned from your managed data infrastructure
• Evolve to a formal data governance program that can drive better business operational performance
• Use your current – and already approved! – data management initiatives to establish a solid groundwork for data governance