Data Governance is an emerging field that brings together data quality, data management, and process management, regarding the handling of data in an organization. It involves controlling the full lifecycle of data produced and consumed within an organization: generation, assessment, management and processing, monitoring, maintenance and protection. Further, it offers technical and organizational solutions for integrating external data sources transparently. The goals of Data Governance include improving decision making, ensuring data processing transparency, adopting common approaches to data maintenance, and minimizing rework.
