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How to Sell the Business on Data Governance

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Your data drives customer engagement, business processes, new product innovation, and ultimately competitive success. With data so precious, it seems obvious that you want to treat it as a valuable asset, with all the appropriate policy setting, stewardship, and enforcement possible. In a word, governance. 

But how can you turn the concept of data governance into a reality?

The Data Governance Dilemma

Significantly growing data volumes, variety, variability, and complexity, combined with ever-expanding compliance requirements make governing data a huge challenge in many organizations today.  

Further, these issues have turned data governance into a costly endeavor. How costly? 

Invest Effectively: Business and IT Alignment is Key

Given these significant costs, it is important that your business and IT teams are on the same page. To maximize the effectiveness of your data governance investments, you should intelligently prioritize them weighing multiple considerations, including:

Invest Efficiently: Address Data Governance Holistically 

Data governance is a continuous process from policy setting through enforcement, execution, and improvement. These efforts impact your entire data management portfolio, not just the traditional governance domains such as data stewardship, catalog, lineage, and master data management (MDM).  

So, rather than adopt standalone data governance products, select data management suites where data governance capabilities are embedded throughout. Within TIBCO Unify for instance,

TIBCO’s integrated approach is a more efficient way to provide the data governance your business and IT teams require.

Building your “CFO-ready” Financial Case

With your list of effective and efficient investments in hand, the next step is to build a compelling financial case that will justify your investments.


Your data is a critical asset, one that should be governed via proper policy setting, stewardship, and enforcement. To govern wisely, invest effectively and efficiently.
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The Bottom Line

Your data is a critical asset, one that should be governed via proper policy setting, stewardship, and enforcement. To govern wisely, invest effectively and efficiently. And prove it with a business case that showcases your intelligent investment approach.

Find out more about how to balance data demands while adhering to regulations and internal controls with your enterprise data governance program.

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