Data Governance Series

Achieve a Successful Digital Transformation through Smart Data Governance

We have crafted a Data Governance journey consisting of role-based learning paths, solution accelerators with implementational solutions, and a Data lounge with expert video series. We aim to equip you with the right tools and processes to build a robust data governance program and give your business a competitive edge.

With our solution accelerators, we want to deliver value wherever you are on your cloud journey. We identified specific challenges and created accelerators that are solution-specific flipbooks with downloadable templates to tackle those challenges. Our accelerators will enable the practitioners to implement the complete solution, be it tackling compliance or building an effective Customer Data Strategy, or more. We believe in continually providing solutions to boost your digital transformation.

Data Governance Learning Paths

Analysts, Data Stewards, Data Engineers, or anyone in the digital transformation of businesses need solid ground in managing data. Get started with the Data Governance Learning Path and take purposeful steps towards simple and smart Data Governance. To make your experience valuable, we have combined business use cases, governance scenarios, webinars on best practices, business value, and more.

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California Consumer Privacy Act

Drive Compliance Readiness to Support Customer Trust and Reduce Organization Risk

General Data Protection Regulation

Improve Customer Experience by Implementing a Data-Centric Approach to Compliance

MDM Outbound Integration with Salesforce

Operationalize your MDM Implementation with Salesforce

Azure SQL Datawarehouse Migration

Accelerate the migration of on-prem EDW workloads to Azure and start the cloud journey

Design Enterprise Data Catalog for Cloud Data Integration

Discover Catalog Assetsdirect from IICS UI and perform mass ingestion, synchronization tasks, and more

Axon EDC Integration and Axon Data Marketplace

Combine Data Marketplace with EDC and Axon to attain insight into your Data Governance Program's health.

California Consumer Privacy Act

Drive Compliance Readiness to Support Customer Trust and Reduce Organization Risk

General Data Protection Regulation

Improve Customer Experience by Implementing a Data-Centric Approach to Compliance

MDM Outbound Integration with Salesforce

Operationalize your MDM Implementation with Salesforce

Azure SQL Datawarehouse Migration

Accelerate the migration of on-prem EDW workloads to Azure and start the cloud journey

Design Enterprise Data Catalog for Cloud Data Integration

Discover Catalog Assetsdirect from IICS UI and perform mass ingestion, synchronization tasks, and more

Axon EDC Integration and Axon Data Marketplace

Combine Data Marketplace with EDC and Axon to attain insight into your Data Governance Program's health.

Data Governance Lounge

The Data Governance Lounge presents an expert video series featuring Kash Mehdi, our Data Domain Expert. As part of the complete Data Governance experience, the topics covered comprise Data Governance Key Drivers, Data trends, developing a Data governance roadmap, and more.

This video covers the following points: Managing Data & trends Role of CDOs

Overview: Data Governance Lounge

Data Governance Lounge presents Data Governance 101 Series featuring Kash Mehdi, Data Domain Expert

Trailer: Data Governance Lounge

Season 1

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Season 1 explains the importance of data, its use, its flow, and how it changes over time, and the need for managing it. It covers our journey at helping organizations with capabilities that facilitate automation, data democratization and help achieve business outcomes like operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and more. It also includes how we established a framework to address the Data Governance challenges faced by our customer, New York Life Insurance.

Every year organizations realize that the amount and the type of data are increasing. This video describes how to manage this explosion of data and what are the various data trends. This video also discusses CDOs' role in creating a data culture where organizations can come out of data silos and drive customer and product experience.

S01 E01: Data Governance 2020 & Drivers

This video explores what drives data governance. It discusses the four key drivers of data governance and how data must have appropriate quality, lineage, and ownership.

S01 E02: Data Governance Key Drivers

This video explains the data governance challenges one of our clients, New York Life Insurance, faced and how they were addressed by establishing a proper framework and mapping the root causes around data to business outcomes.

S01 E03: Data Governance Challenges

This video explores Informatica's perspective around establishing a data governance framework. The video explains each element of the framework, its capabilities, and how it can help achieve business outcomes.

S01 E04: Establishing Data Governance Framework

This video discusses Informatica's integrated platform and how it supports your data governance journey. This video also provides a brief glimpse of Informatica's different technologies and how they can achieve business outcomes, for example, business enablement around data.

S01 E05: Informatica Integrated Solutions

This video discusses Data Marketplace, a concept created to help organizations achieve a data democratization environment. This video also explains the privacy framework and the various processes in them.

S01 E06: Data Democratization & Privacy Framework

Season 2

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Season 2 opens with an introduction to Data Catalog. It addresses the customers' data availability challenges and how we created the Informatica Information Catalog to counter this. It also discusses the capabilities and key benefits of the Data Catalog.

Organizations these days are overflowing with data. Volume and variety of data have quadrupled in the last decade. This episode explains how Data Catalog came into existence and its evolution over the years. It also discusses Data Catalog as a technology with the promise of automation and machine learning, helping companies understand and benefit from their data.

S02 E01: Evolution of Data Catalog

This episode discusses Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog's journey as our customers were facing data availability challenges as their data ecosystems were expanding. It also explains how as companies are moving from a control-centric organization to a data empowering organization, the Data Catalog's role becomes integral.

S02 E02: Journey of Enterprise Data Catalog

This episode explains how organizations need to look at the Data Catalog capabilities in three areas; Its ability to integrate with all the critical technologies in your organization, its powers to integrate with Data Management systems to draw data intelligence, and its capacity to add meaning to data through AI and ML capabilities.

S02 E03: Evaluating a Data Catalog

This episode reviews the business benefits of the Data Catalog for our customers based on key use cases such as enabling self-service data analytics by finding trusted data, ensuring compliance to regulation and lineage requirements, tracking lineage information across sources, being a central repository of metadata across data sources and more.

S02 E04: Key benefits of Data Catalog

This episode discusses how fast customers can benefit once the Data Catalog solution has been deployed. It explains how depending on the volume and variety of data being ingested into the Data Catalog; the implementation time could shift from a few weeks to several months.

S02 E05: Timeline for Value

Season 3

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Season 3 covers the complexities faced by different personas concerning data and the Data Catalog's role in helping each persona. It discusses the challenges met by Data Citizens, Data Administrators, and Data Scientists, varying from finding the right data to providing trusted data to Data Consumers. And how the Data Catalog deals with these challenges by its capabilities.

This episode outlines the challenges faced by first data consumers/citizens affecting their day-to-day operations. It also discusses some of the obstacles, such as; identifying the right data set, getting access to that data, and the tools available to analyze the data.

S03 E01: Challenges for Data Citizens

This episode provides insight into the benefits of implementing a Data Catalog to help Data Consumers/Citizens address data challenges. It also discusses the Data Catalog's key highlights, including enabling users to find data quickly and creating indicators of trust on the data to ensure trusted data is available to data citizens.

S03 E02: Data Catalog for Data Citizens

This episode describes some of the challenges data administrators face related to delivering trusted datasets for various data consumers within an organization. It also provides an in-depth analysis of the complexities, including the governance and compliance issues.

S03 E03: Challenges of Data Administrator

This episode provides insight into Data Catalog features like Data Quality, Data Lineage, which helps a Data Administrator deliver trusted data to Data Consumers efficiently. It also discusses Data Catalog abilities, including discovering disparate data sets across the enterprise without sifting through multiple sources.

S03 E04: Data Catalog for Data Administrator

This episode provides detailed insight into why Data Scientists spend time preparing data rather than creating data analytics models. It also discusses how Data Catalog enables Data Scientists to find trusted Data Sets.

S03 E05: Challenges for Data Scientists

This episode discusses how the Data Catalog acts as a self-service data hub, automating a trusted data pipeline for data scientists' data analytics tools. It also explains how the Data Catalog enables a data-driven culture across data users in an organization.

S03 E06: Data Catalog for Data Scientists

Season 4

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Season 4 begins with a classification of the different types of Metadata. The experts will guide you through all the capabilities of Data Catalog and the steps needed to catalog data. Finally, it discusses Informatica's Intelligent Glossary Association capability that provides the business context to Technical Metadata.

This video discusses and defines Technical Metadata and Business Metadata. It also explains in-depth everything that constitutes Technical and Business Metadata with a thorough analysis.

S04 E01: Types of Metadata - Part 1

This episode defines and provides an in-depth analysis of Operational Metadata, Usage Metadata, and Social Metadata. It discusses how operational metadata concerns how data flows across the organization. Usage metadata covers data usages like access and control, and Social metadata defines how end users are using the data sets.

S04 E02: Types of Metadata - Part 2

This episode outlines the key capabilities of Data Catalog, ranging from Data Quality Profiling, Enabling Privacy Compliance, Data Lineage, and more. It also discusses how the Data Catalog supports organizations in understanding their enterprise data with a holistic view.

S04 E03: Capabilities of Data Catalog

This episode explains the process of Cataloging Data using the Data Catalog. It details the steps required to catalog data, starting from how the metadata is ingested into the Data Catalog to how information such as quality score, lineage, and compliance metrics are extracted with metadata scanners.

S04 E04: Cataloging Data

This episode explains key aspects of a good Data Catalog. It covers the importance of understanding data, linking semantics, profiling data, automation of tasks, and finally reducing turnaround time.

S04 E05: Aspects of a good Data Catalog

This episode discusses Informatica's Intelligent Glossary Association capability that looks at the business glossary terms and understands its meaning. It then looks at all the technical data sets in the organization and matches these business glossary terms to the technical assets.

S04 E06: Intelligent Glossary Association - Capabilities

Season 5

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Season 5 quickly goes over various features and capabilities of the Data Catalog. The episodes provide a detailed review of the need for data preparation, operationalization of the data preparation steps, and critical variables to look out for when evaluating a data preparation tool.

This episode starts with a recap of the Data Catalog features, benefits, and implementation discussed in Season 3. The video discusses the current situation surrounding preparing data and the importance of data preparation before making it usable for the end-users.

S05 E01: Current State

Learn about Excel and its shortcomings in helping consumers prepare data for their use cases with this video. The video provides a detailed review of excel challenges such as lack of extraction and transformation capability, minimum visual representation capability, and more.

S05 E02: Excel, Challenges, and Needs

Learn about creating a data preparation lifecycle and operationalizing the Data Preparation steps in this episode. The video provides insights into the data preparation lifecycle, starting from discovering data, enriching, and transforming data to meeting compliance requirements and building trust with data.

S05 E03: Operationalization

This video provides insights into some of the organizations' key parameters to evaluate a Data Preparation Tool. The video discusses parameters such as the core preparation capabilities like integration, cleaning, and efficient handling of data, discovery of trusted datasets, and more.

S05 E04: Evaluating a Data Preparation Tool - I

This episode continues the discussion from the previous episode regarding how to evaluate a Data Preparation Tool. It covers the need to enforce Data Quality Rules, their adoption, integration of Data Catalog and Data Preparation tool, and more.

S05 E05: Evaluating Data Preparation Tool – II

Season 6

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Season 6 comprises everything Data Privacy and Regulations. The discussions guide you through how companies take advantage of data to achieve business outcomes and meet compliance requirements. It covers privacy regulations and trends and different stages of privacy implementation.

This episode starts with a discussion around Data Privacy and Regulations. The review surrounds how businesses leverage their data to achieve business outcomes while ensuring their adherence to compliance requirements. The video also covers how data is a liability due to extensive privacy regulations.

S06 E01: Data Privacy and Regulations

This video reviews what privacy regulations are, what privacy regulations bring into organizations, and what it means from an enterprise's perspective. It covers how regulations ensure valuable data on customers, vendors, suppliers, products are protected, how organizations must form a governance framework and more.

S06 E02: Privacy Regulation and Trends - I

This video highlights the trends in Data Management impacted by privacy regulations. It describes how companies operate in multiple geographies and how each landscape has its privacy regulations. It further explains how companies need a data governance framework and how automation and effective usage of AI and ML can fast-track the lineage process.

S06 E03: Privacy Regulation and Trends - II

This episode discusses the building blocks of privacy implementation, such as defining privacy policies, discovering hidden data assets within the organization, discovering sources that store sensitive data sets, and more. It further talks about the action points in privacy implementation, like protecting data and ensuring controlled data sharing across the organization.

S06 E04: Privacy Implementation - Step I

This episode discusses the next steps after data has been identified and protected. It outlines how to comply with the regulations starting with performing and reporting a data privacy impact assessment, defining a framework based on these regulations, and more.

S06 E05: Privacy Implementation - Step II

This episode describes how organizations fulfill their obligations towards customers and their employees regarding data protection and privacy. It covers various topics such as end-user rights and implementation and concludes with a quick rundown of data privacy.

S06 E06: Privacy Implementation - Step III

Season 7

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Season 7 begins with the need for Data Protection and how to protect data and get the maximum benefit from this data. It also discusses the different types of protection and how to go about protecting unstructured data.

This video explains the methods of discovering data assets across the enterprise. It also reviews how organizations protect their data assets without compromising on using data as a business asset and strategic decision-making.

S07 E01: Discovery

This video describes the various methods used by organizations to protect their data assets and the parameters used to select the right toolset for protecting the data.

S07 E02: Types of Protection

This episode explains the methods adopted by organizations to protect data at the rate in a data lake. It also discusses the challenges organizations face in protecting data from the data lake, especially when all the data assets are stored in one place and how enterprises solve these challenges.

S07 E03: Protect a Data Lake

This video teaches the techniques for protecting unstructured data. It explains the challenges faced by organizations in protecting unstructured data, especially the difficulty of identifying sensitive data. It concludes by describing how enterprises face the challenge.

S07 E04: Unstructured Data Protection

Explore ways to protect sensitive data in a test environment with this video. The video covers various aspects of protecting data in the test environment and reiterates that data protection is an enterprise need irrespective of the environment that stores the data.

S07 E05: Protect Test Environment

Season 8

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This season discusses everything CLAIRE. Every industry and business needs analytics as they transform their data into intelligence. Analytics is fundamental to any digital transformation. It helps increase productivity, automation, flexibility, and agility. The episodes delve into the vision of CLAIRE, examples of it helps key customers and its various capabilities.

This episode outlines the vision behind CLAIRE and how it helps with the user journey of business 360, data governance and privacy, and cloud data warehouse and data lakes. It discusses how the focus is to deliver trusted data to a broad range of users.

S08 E01: Powering Intelligent Data-Driven Transformation

This video explains how CLAIRE is built using a modern microservices architecture that supports multi-cloud and hybrid architectures. It also describes how this platform is designed with metadata management, governance, and privacy as core principles to scale for enterprises' current and future needs. Watch this episode to discover different products that constitute the Informatica Intelligent Data Platform and its capabilities.

S08 E02: The Intelligent Data-Driven Platform

CLAIRE powers all three customer journeys in the Data 4.0 World; Business 360, Data Governance and Privacy, and Cloud Data Warehouse and Data Lake. The video presents how CLAIRE helps each of these journeys. Learn about Informatica Business 360, enabling organizations to create 360 views of customers, suppliers, and product's master data.

S08 E03: Business 360

Today more than ever, modern organizations require a foundation of trust and visibility of enterprise data to reduce risk. Watch this episode to learn how Informatica EDC, Axon with its underlying CLAIRE platform, helps customers address their governance and privacy use-cases.

S08 E04: Data Governance and Privacy

Businesses are focused on agility, flexibility, and scalability; therefore, modernizing or starting analytics in the cloud is a crucial goal. This video teaches how Informatica Intelligent Data Platforms helps organizations build trusted and secured data in their CDW and data lakes.

S08 E05: Cloud Data Warehouse and Data Lakes

Through CLAIRE, Informatica enables organizations to catalog all their data within their enterprise. In this episode, you will learn how CLAIRE's Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning capabilities help companies to manage their data management use-cases.

S08 E06: AI-Powered Automation and Innovation

This episode begins with an account of how our journey started in AI-powered Data management. This video also provides insights into Automation usage to help customers realize data governance, data quality, and master data management use-cases.

S08 E07: Intelligent Data Management Automation

This video details the capabilities of cloud-native and cloud-first metadata operating system powered by CLAIRE. It explains about Cross Platform Discovery Service, Active Metadata Service, and Customer Advisory Services.

S08 E08: Core Tenets of Cloud Metadata Operating System

Season 9

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This season discusses specific examples of CLAIRE and how that helps with key customers' data management use-cases. It gives details of how metadata intelligence-based automation can help them meet their business outcomes.

This video explains how the CLAIRE-powered Intelligent Glossary Association uses AI capabilities to relate data assets across the tech landscape. It discusses Intelligent Glossary Association Use-Case Summary, how it works, and its benefits.

S09 E01: Intelligent Glossary Association

This video describes how the CLAIRE power Automated Data Quality rule applications help customers assign data quality rules to fields based on business rules.

S09 E02: Automated Data Quality Rule Application

Learn how CLAIRE generates a privacy policy dashboard that depicts the application of privacy policy and compliance across the data landscape.

S09 E03: Privacy Policy Insights

This video starts with a discussion on Inferred lineage and how it allows automatic discovery of data flows in Axon. It also teaches you about automated lineage capabilities that enable organizations to track data lineage across various systems.

S09 E04: Automated Lineage

This episode explains the use-case summary of user behavior analytics, where it detects patterns of user behavior that might be risky and expose an organization to data misuse. Watch this video to learn how automated data analytics helps companies deliver trusted data for analytics use cases.

S09 E05: Automated Data Analytics

Discover CLAIRE's power Automated Data Quality insights dashboard that helps companies to track DQ metrics across the landscape at a scheduled interval.

S09 E06: Integrated Data Quality Insights

Learn how companies can modernize their Cloud journey by effectively using the Informatica Intelligent Data Platform capabilities. The video also discusses the difference Informatica brings to this effort by providing comprehensive metadata connectivity for all enterprise data and more.

S09 E07: Cloud Data Warehouse Modernization

Learn different capabilities of CLAIRE concerning Application and API integration in this episode. It also details the CLAIRE features and future capabilities.

S09 E08: Application and API Integration

Learn details about the Customer 360 Insights platform that enables customers to create 360-degree insights on their customer data.

S09 E09: Master Data Management / C360 Insights