Big data governance: Old versus new approach

At Connectikpeople.co, we define Governed data as an accurate and actionable, reliable, secure and ready to use digital asset, while data from an ungoverned land is unpack with little emerging value for big data analytics and operations. 

In our digital-age, where Businesses want more information about their customers, their products, their processes, their reputation and their markets to inter alia support decisions, Connectikpeople.co recalls that, in the traditional approach, data was governed as it was discovered or brought into the enterprise.

Trisha Dutta , product Marketing Manager - InfoSphere, IBM talks about a waterfall approach: ‘’integrate data and govern it to the highest required standard, load it to a central repository and then use it’’.

The new big data approach to governance combines inter alia: agility; security, privacy, social; correlation; it is about profiling the data, understanding what it will be used for and then determining the required level of governance.