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Data Governance: The Definitive Guide: People, Processes, and Tools to Operationalize Data Trustworthiness

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As you move data to the cloud, you need to consider a comprehensive approach to data governance, along with well-defined and agreed-upon policies to ensure your organization meets compliance requirements. Data governance incorporates the ways people, processes, and technology work together to ensure data is trustworthy and can be used effectively. This practical guide shows you how to effectively implement and scale data governance throughout your organization.

Chief information, data, and security officers and their teams will learn strategy and tooling to support democratizing data and unlocking its value while enforcing security, privacy, and other governance standards. Through good data governance, you can inspire customer trust, enable your organization to identify business efficiencies, generate more competitive offerings, and improve customer experience. This book shows you how.

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Data governance strategies addressing people, processes, and tools
Benefits and challenges of a cloud-based data governance approach
How data governance is conducted from ingest to preparation and use
How to handle the ongoing improvement of data quality
Challenges and techniques in governing streaming data
Data protection for authentication, security, backup, and monitoring
How to build a data culture in your organization

293 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 8, 2021

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48 reviews5 followers
November 11, 2021
Achei o livro essencial para quem precisa lidar com governança de dados. Ele cobre todos os assuntos apesar de não se profundo nos tópicos e dar mais um direcionamento pois para se aprofundar precisaria de algum caso em especial ou conjunto de ferramentas. Talvez quem já tenha experiência no tópico ache mais introdutório.
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365 reviews
October 27, 2025
Helpful but telling that it took me 10 months to finish
Profile Image for Mayur Sinha.
124 reviews4 followers
April 21, 2022
An average book to tell you what is data governance around the data life cycle management process. Book do cover a lot of theory to ponder but doesn’t give you much teeth to apply directly in your daily job. Just skim it!
2 reviews1 follower
June 29, 2022
Good book where at high level decoded word "data governance". The advantage of this book is making focus on people and processes. Technologies go at the end. Many companies try to solve data management issues with specific technologies without investing in building ecosystem with good processes and educating people towards data culture. I would recomend this book for all data people.
58 reviews
January 3, 2023
Great book.

It was my first experience reading O'Reilly's books and as a beginner in the data architecture business, I learned a lot from it and had a clear understanding of the importance of Data Governance at an enterprise level.
31 reviews
February 3, 2025
Great book.

It was my first experience reading O'Reilly's books and as a beginner in the data architecture business, I learned a lot from it and had a clear understanding of the importance of Data Governance at an enterprise level.
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31 reviews1 follower
July 20, 2021
Broad but covers overall concepts and topics in practical data governing.
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