As the digital revolution progresses, businesses are drowning in an ocean of data. Learning to harness this resource effectively is the modern company’s equivalent of mastering the high seas. Fortunately, the right tools exist to help navigate these waters. In the realm of data management, these essential aids are known as data governance tools.
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Data catalog tools automate the discovery of data sets and data models throughout an enterprise, allowing business users to find what they need without querying the source systems. Many have metadata management capabilities to organize, describe and track data linesage so that users can understand the relationships between different pieces of information, while others also include a business glossary that systematizes nomenclature for common terms across teams. Some even have proactive observability features that monitor and control data quality at ingestion time to help prevent problems from developing.
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A database is a structured collection of data organized and stored systematically, usually in a digital format. They provide a way to store, retrieve, update, and analyze large amounts of information to meet the business needs of organizations.
A data management system (DBMS) is a set of programs that manages and controls a database. DBMS programs include the operating systems (OS), database application software that allows data access in a database, network software to share databases, and other programing for managing the overall database.
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