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SAS Data Management Technologies

Supporting a Data Governance Process

Dave Smith, SAS UK & I

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Agenda

• Data Governance

• What it is

• Why it’s needed

• How to get started

• SAS technologies which can assist Data

Governance programs

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Data Governance Defined

• Formal orchestration of people, processes and

technology to leverage data as a corporate asset

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Why Govern Data?

• Regulation

• Risk

• Efficiency

• Opportunity

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The interconnectedness of people

process and technology

Data Item

Owner

Physical

Relationships

Quality

AttributesLineage

Metadata

Location

Business

Technical

Status

Links

Definitions

Importance

Requirements

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The Data

Governance

Journey

ORCHESTRATING PEOPLE, PROCESSES, AND

TECHNOLOGY

IntegratedProactiveControlledManagedUnpredictable

No awareness

No accountability

Nascent awareness

and Data Stewards

Assigned DS

Accountability of

business owners

Proactive

behaviours on DQ

Recognized DS

DG office

DQ culture

No common

language

Application-centric

Business

definitions

DQ processes

Shared business

definitions and

rules

DG policies

DQ embedded in

processes

Optimised cross-

functional

processes

No tools

DQ tools

Metadata

repositories

Shared metadata

Business glossary

Analytical MDM

DG process tool

and dashboards

Operational /

collaborative MDM

Data as a service

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Data Management vs. Data Governance

Data management is a by-product

of data governance

Effective data management needs

to be governed

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Data

Governance

THE QUESTIONS IT ADDRESSES

Buying

System

Warehouse

Mgt System

Promotions /

Marketing

Campaign

Mgt

POS WEB

CRM /

Loyalty

Program

Cons.

Marketing

Customer

Exp.

Digital

Marketing

Finance &

Risk

Call

Centre

Market

insight

Disparate needs for data consumption

PricingNew Product Introduction

Promotion ManagementCustomer Registration

Emailing Marketing Campaign

Data silos / Application Centric Data Generation & Manipulation

Unmanaged cross-functional processes

Who owns the data?

Who can author data

and how?

How are conflicting

needs addressed?

How is inaccurate

information

corrected?

Who can decide

about the

changes?

What does good

data look like?

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The role of

Data

Stewards

ORCHESTRATING CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION

ITBusiness

Users

Data

Stewards

Create & Consume

Manage & Monitor

Implement,

Adapt & Extend

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Common Data Governance Challenges

• Seen as an academic exercise

• The culture doesn’t support centralized decision making

• Considered an IT issue

• The ROI isn’t clear

• Definitions and explanations of data governance are varied and

contradictory

• Nervousness about “the ‘G’ word”

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SAS Data Governance Framework

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Top-down

Bottom-up

Where to Start?

Data Quality

Analysis

Impact & root cause

analysis

DQ Standards

definition

Quick Wins

Data Dictionary

definition

Vision &

Roadmap

Organizational

framework

Data

Stewardship

model

DG & DQ

Processes

Business

case / ROI

Prioritization of

DM initiatives

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Other Best Practices

• Understand what’s important to management now

• Work within your culture

• Understand your current state before making the pitch

• Choose sponsors based on initiative owners

• Corrections at source & available to real time processes

• Treat Data Governance as a project

• Rely on the big-bang approach

• Treat all data the same way

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SAS Technologies for Data Governance

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SAS Data Management Platform

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Data Quality Process

Define the terms and

sourcesBusiness Owner

Define the key entities

Identify the sources and responsibilities

1

Discover & Profile

the DataDQ Analyst

Qualify & Quantify actual issues with the

Data

2

Design data quality

standardsBusiness Owner DQ Analyst

Design the business rules to enforce data

quality and data services

3

Apply injection and

execution

Operations and

DI Experts

Embed the DQ services and business rules into the operating

systems and DI processes

4

Measure & Monitor actual vs. expected,

identify trends, allocated tasks

Monitor & Publish

DQ measurement5

Data

Steward

Business

Owner

Update & Improve systems and processes

Remediate &

Improve6Operations and

DI ExpertsDQ

Analyst

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The Relationship service

• The Relationship Service collects and stores metadata

• Content from SAS and sources outside of SAS

• Processes that include resources used in data management,

business intelligence, and data integration

• Consists of Resources and Relationships

• Resources are metadata representations of data assets or

processes

• Relationships describe how two Resources are related

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Relationship Types

• Is dependent on

• Is parent of

• Contains

• Is synonymous with

• Is associated with

• Is equal to

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Lineage Viewer

• Acts as a viewer on the

relationships database

• Allows different views of data

lineage including governance

and impact analysis

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Business Data Network

• Central definitions of Terms

across the organisation

• Links business and technical

definitions to enable

collaboration and clarity

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Federation Server

• Create federated views of data

from diverse sources

• Apply row and column access

control, data encryption and

masking to sources

• Enable detailed logging of data

access

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