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TigerLogic®
Data Governance Server
The
Need for Data Governance
High
quality and timely information is a vital enterprise asset and
critical to business success. Consistent and accurate information
is indispensable to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems,
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications, Business
Intelligence (BI) and certain classes of corporate documents
(regulatory compliance). Information, like a physical asset,
depreciates in value over time as it is utilized. For example,
customer information in an enterprise is often spread among
many systems that are not well synchronized. The lack of harmonized
data results in inconsistent or contradictory customer information,
which leads to inaccurate decisions and less effective customer
interactions.
Enterprise data quality is also critical for any new enterprise
technology architecture like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
According to Gartner, by 2010 more than 50 percent of early
adopter organizations migrating toward SOA will fail at their
first attempts due to a lack of rigor in enforcing data governance
and information management policies.
What’s required is a highly flexible and collaborative
data governance model that ensures information is leveraged
and consistent across the enterprise. The governance model includes
roles and responsibilities (data governance council, data captains,
data stewards), processes (data change and approval process),
enterprise standards (metadata and policies) and technology
(data governance tools).
TigerLogic
Data Governance Server
TigerLogic
Data Governance Server is flexible, easy to use and powerful.
It enables data stewards, architects and enterprise information
managers to rapidly build, deploy, monitor and measure data
governance processes. The TigerLogic Data Governance Server
sits on top of existing technologies such as ETL, ESB and EAI
and governs enterprise data assets. It enforces data quality
standards and policies (these may be in a handbook), provides
visibility (who, what, when) and monitors data quality improvement
(exceptions in the ETL process).
TigerLogic
Data Governance Server has an easy to use GUI Web-based user
interface with built-in role-based access and privileges. Governance
workflows, which incorporate both system and human activities,
are modeled in the workflow designer and deployed in the runtime
engine. Metadata for high value data assets is managed in a
metadata repository, which provides a complete audit trail and
data lineage. Changes in high value data are harmonized across
existing systems through XA compliant connectivity.
Versioning
of governance workflows is managed in the workflow engine and
stored in the metadata repository. Workflow and existing communication
tools, like e-mail and text messages, provide real-time notifications
and collaboration while limiting the need for group meetings
to discuss data governance issues. Impact analysis of requested
changes to high value data or metadata changes, including who
and what systems are affected by planned changes, is available
in the metadata repository. Finally, intuitive dashboards show
efficiency of governance policies (are there too many exceptions
or escalations) and overall improvement in enterprise data quality.
See Exhibit 1.
Exhibit 1: Modules of TigerLogic Data Governance
Server
Advantages
of TigerLogic Data Governance Server
TigerLogic
Data Governance Server is built for interoperability, flexibility
and re-usability. The product’s foundation is the TigerLogic
XML Data Management Server (XDMS) and the TigerLogic XML Workflow
Management Server (XWMS).
The TigerLogic
XWMS has an easy to use drag-and-drop designer tool to model
the governance processes. Activities and data are represented
as loosely-coupled objects, which can be quickly composed into
data governance workflows and also combined with traditional
business process orchestrations. Workflow models are deployed
to the workflow engine and stored and managed in the metadata
repository. The TigerLogic XWMS incorporates a robust workflow
engine that automates data governance workflows by orchestrating
different data management activities (Web Services, Java, .NET,
human interaction, etc.) to optimize data stewardship, quality
and visibility. Exhibit 2 showcases the TigerLogic designer
tool and a sample data governance workflow screenshot.
Exhibit
2: Data Governance Workflow
The TigerLogic XDMS persists high value data and metadata in
a hierarchical structure to provide optimal data management
flexibility and performance. As data or metadata change requests
are approved and deployed, the change history is stored providing
a complete audit trail and data lineage. Although this type
of history can be managed with a relational data management
system (RDBMS), it would become very complex over time because
tables would need to be added and changed. Additionally, TigerLogic
XDMS has a self-evolving data model, which handles new schemas
and data formats with little to no DBA intervention. An RDBMS
could require an expensive DBA to unload, rebuild and reload
the database in order to accommodate new schemas.
All governance data services, workflows and users are stored
and managed in the centralized TigerLogic XDMS. This registry
repository also caches all metadata and data associated with
governance workflows to enable a complete audit trail and versioning
of data assets. Key data can also be cached in-memory in native
XML format for optimal performance (up to 64 GB).
TigerLogic Data Governance Server runs on Windows, Linux and
Solaris. The recommended hardware is dual CPU with 1.5 GB RAM.
Product
Brochure
TigerLogic
Data Governance Server Product Overview (439 KB pdf)
Contact
Us
For
inquiries, please contact TigerLogic Data Governance sales at
949-442-4400 or email datagovernance-sales@rainingdata.com.
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