Data governance is a data management concept concerning the ability that accredit an organization to ensure that high data quality exists throughout the complete lifecycle of the data. The key focus areas of data governance include availability, consistency,usability, data integrity and data security and includes establishing processes to ensure effective data management throughout the enterprise such as accountability for the adverse effects of penurious data quality and ensuring that the data which an enterprise has can be used by the entire organization.
Data governance forms the basis for company-wide data management and makes the efficient use of trustworthy data possible. The efficient management of data is an important task that requires centralized control mechanisms.
