Data Governance encompasses
the definition and implementation of policies and procedures for managing
your data as a strategic asset. For example, SAS Business Data Network
can be used to store definitions and owners for business terms like profit or customer.
Then these business terms can be linked to the technical metadata
that defines where customer data is stored in different databases,
tables, and fields across the organization. Business Rules can be
defined and implemented to improve and monitor the health of your
data.
The key technologies
for data governance in SAS data management include: