DATA AND ANALYTICS GOVERNANCEGENERATING TRUST THROUGH VALIDATION AND PROCESS

SOLUTIONS | DATA GOVERNANCE

Strategic and tactical solutions for Fortune 2000 enterprises migrating from traditional

business intelligence to advanced analytics

Data Governance

Managing data before it is ingested.

• Availability.

• Integrity.

• Use and transformation.

• Accessibility and security.

Comparing Two Types of Governance

Agile

• Define minimum needs upfront.

• Commit to continuous evolution.

• Accommodates fast-changing demands.

• Flexible enough to work in environments

with employees as well as multiple

vendors and consultants.

Waterfall • Impossible to define all needs upfront.

• Can’t accommodate the unexpected.

• Time-consuming.

• Prone to cause project delays.

Successful governance requires management of the data before it is ingested into

the Analytic Platform – as well as understanding how it may be used and transformed.

Frameworks Ensure You Can Trust Your ResultsTrack and monitor data as it moves through your analytics platform.

Protect your data from corruption and alteration as it is:

• Ingested.• Transformed.

Workflow Examples• Validate source data that may come from unconnected systems (finance, marketing)

or from outside the business.

• Limit the use of datasets that are not validated in decision making.

• Prevent unverified datasets from informing decisions.

• Manage access to data. For example, restricting access to HR datasets.

• Expose the data lineage so stakeholders can inspect its origins.

• Use data “zones” and tools to help users discover available datasets.

Governance Workflows

• Modeled.

• Published.

Tactical workflows that allow you to track and monitor data as it moves into and

through your analytic platform.

Customized RACI charts define responsibilities

• The IT department generally owns and manages

business systems and the data they collect.

• The analytics group is responsible for the

analytics workflows and platform capabilities.

Facilitating IT and Analytics Group Collaboration

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WebbMason Analytics works closely with clients to define who is responsible for

each stage of an analytic solution.

Communications processes • Alert the correct teams about problems.

• Appropriately prioritize a resolution.

WebbMason Analytics offers the services and solutions enterprises need to establish,

evolve, and accelerate their advanced analytics capabilities.

Full Service Advanced Analytics

Agile Analytics Development Lifecycle

Analytics Platform Development

Data Engineering & Data Science

Strategic Talent Planning & Management

Data & AnalyticsGovernance

Framework forMeasuring ROI

Training: Technical,Process & Methodologies

Analytics OrganizationStrategy

Todd Jones | Chief Analytics Officerdirect line: (412) 334-3545 | office line: (443) 212-5072

tjones@webbmasonanalytics.com