Data Governance and MDM – The 80/20 Rule

I attended once a session with a Gartner analyst, who declared that the closest thing to the work he was doing when helping customers with data governance was “Family Counseling”. This statement expressed perfectly the complexity of the topic, and highlighted the strong focus on people and processes that apply to the Data Governance field.

When people ask me what is the relation between MDM and Data Governance, I oversimplify and say: “Governance is about making decisions, and MDM is about making them real”.

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