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SAS® Governance Give your data some guidance – and make it work for your business

What does SAS® Data Governance do? SAS Data Governance helps you maintain a consistent set of policies, processes and owners for your corporate information – including sets in Hadoop and Impala. You’ll spend less time managing your data – and more time managing your business – with our patented solution. Why is SAS® Data Governance important? With SAS Data Governance, you can put the necessary processes in place to more effec- tively manage all of your data assets and critical information. And you can boost collabora- tion between business and IT so everyone in your organization is on the same page. For whom is SAS® Data Governance designed? It is designed for all business departments with an emphasis on data stewardship, execu- tive managers who consume governed data, and IT members who are key stakeholders in overseeing the data governance program.

You’ve done the dirty work. Your data is in Key Benefits Overview good shape, and you’re ready to move your • Always have trusted data. SAS Data SAS Data Governance involves a combina- business forward. Customer data matched Governance protects your business tion of technology and services that enable and complete? Check. Product information information and provides oversight so you to manage data and help your business well-defined and consistent? Check. Now you don’t have to continuously patrol achieve consistency and transparency for what? How do you maintain that high level your processes. the long term. of quality and make your data work for you? • Get on the same page. Store business SAS Data Governance helps you build the terms and related technical metadata in Enterprise data governance set of policies, processes and boundaries the business glossary, visualize relation- If you’re like most organizations, you have a you put in place to holistically manage your ships and lineage, and remediate issues set of business policies and rules that apply data. You establish how you want your data from within the same user interface. to both new and existing data – but with multiple applications enforcing them. to behave and then let the technology work • Go from data governance to big data SAS Data Governance unifies your efforts, behind the scenes while you run your governance. SAS Data Governance can providing a common business glossary and business. expand your data governance program centralized lineage and relationships for to include Hadoop data, via Hive. You might be surprised by what happens easier maintenance. As a result, you have a when your data has rules. Workflows run • Reduce risk by automating compliance central business rule repository that governs better. Business and IT are on the same management. With unified, consistent data across all applications and . page. Reporting and monitoring get easier. reference data, you can more easily Policies are complied with. And you can meet risk objectives. SAS provides the Business data glossary governance capabilities needed for finally relax knowing that your high-quality An intuitive, browser-based GUI makes it compliance, including validation and data will continue to be right. easy to create and maintain a single glossary integrity controls, as well as robust audit of common business terms in the SAS trails, version snapshots and lineage Business Data Network. You can create information. descriptions and associated conditions of usage, providing your IT team with guidance for business rules, all via a workflow-driven term-creation and editing process. This via SAS Lineage, along with the SAS Business Security and governance policy improves business and IT collaboration and Data Network to help document and enforcement helps you take a data governance program manage metadata across systems – from The ability to not only keep your data from concept to reality. Import terms from both SAS and third-party tools, transforma- secure, but also quickly identify and correct CSV files and integrate with other applica- tion jobs and data models. SAS Lineage, problems, is integral to success. SAS Data tions via the exposed REST API. Finally, a lineage visualization tool, allows you to Governance provides lineage capabilities create snapshots to better meet regulatory explore relationships and conduct impact for both technical and business metadata audit requirements. analysis to see how changes to one data to watch for changes, assess impacts, query element might affect information in other the logical types and update the metadata systems. With SAS Metadata Bridge, users Lineage and metadata repository. You can manage access to can import third-party lineage metadata. management business terms at a granular level, allowing This includes third-party ETL jobs, data The patented SAS Data Governance only authorized individuals to view or change transformation logic and data models. solution provides data lineage capabilities data elements for specific terms.

Figure 1. Reference Data Manager offers a web-based Figure 2. The SAS Data Governance viewer provides the design, interface that can be used across departments and lines of development and monitoring environment for proactive data business to store and manage lists, name and value pairs, and governance so you can identify which records are causing rule hierarchies referenced by processes. violations and determine how to remediate them.

Figure 3. SAS Business Data Network allows business and IT users to collaborate on the creation of business terms, establish links to the term and examine related data elements. Enhanced user experience Key Features Data stewards not only need the ability to manage data, update processes and track Enterprise data governance Security and governance policy progress, but also the ability to do it quickly • Supports the consistent mainte- enforcement and efficiently. SAS Data Governance pro- nance and use of data attributes • Role-based access to authorized vides a browser-based data management through a common data model and data stewards helps you manage console that enables you to access all data centralized data maintenance and access to attribute content by role. governance interfaces from a single location. access processes. • Granular, role-based security allows You’ll have more control than ever when it • Enables ongoing conformance you to secure access to sensitive in- comes to correcting issues, modifying with rules and quality through formation when creating and editing procedures and establishing business rules. data profiling and business rule workflows. monitoring. • Allows you to create visualizations or Data remediation Seamless user experience reports to track remediation issues or Early detection of problems is critical to • Web-based console enables the monitor data health. managing data. With data remediation, ability to search and display entities, both business and IT personnel can quickly as well as add, modify and retire identify and correct issues before they Business data glossary entities and hierarchies. cause bigger problems downstream. • Create and manage common • Data stewards can manage business terms across the enterprise. metadata for entities, attributes and Business rule validation • Store and apply definitions to guide transformations. Your organization has standards for its data all data management processes. • Reporting capabilities enable critical quality and business processes, and business • Reuse, manage and report on the metrics views and trends, tracking rule validation helps enforce those standards. use of a single glossary. progress of data initiatives. You can promptly identify and minimize the • Safeguard sensitive or protected • A unified web-based console costs associated with previously undetected information through secure access enables monitoring, data gover- issues and business rule viola- to glossary content data. nance, business rules and data tions. Plus, you can develop and refine all- • Import terms from CSV files and inte- stewardship components. encompassing business rules that govern grate with other applications via the exposed REST API. your data in the same interface. Data remediation • Create “point in time” snapshots • Workflows for governing steward- of terms to meet regulatory audit Integration with SAS® Data ship and other business processes requirements. Management solutions can be designed, published and SAS Data Governance fully integrates with reused. SAS Data Quality and SAS Data Manage- Lineage and metadata • Workflows define case management ment to store and visualize relationships management activities of issues flagged during across tables, databases and different • Lineage visualization and metadata data definition and monitoring source applications for data that needs to be management allow you to visualize processes, allowing for run-time governed. And you can identify any data and manage technical and business drill-through of tasks associated with outliers and gain insight into source data metadata – and understand the active workflows. integrity. impact of changes to data elements. • When problems are identified during • Automatically scan for changes in a load process, the remediation inter- Visualization and reporting metadata and save them to the face enables data stewards to review repository. records and resolve issues. With SAS Visual Administration • View relationships and impact and Reporting, you can create reports and analysis across both SAS and third- share information about data governance party data transformation jobs, data initiatives, monitor data health and check the models and other data elements. status of remediation issues.

To learn more about SAS Data Governance, download white papers, view screenshots and see other related material, please visit sas.com/datagovernance. Key Features (continued)

Business rule validation • Ensure data meets organizational standards for data quality and business processes. • Identify, profile and validate refer- ence data from any source system on any platform. Figure 4. SAS Lineage provides impact analysis to determine how changing one at- • Validate data against standard tribute might affect other reports, databases or systems, across both SAS and third-party statistical measures and customized tools and data elements. business rules. • Create and manage business rules across processes. • Maintain and manage history and data change management in a single interface.

Integration with SAS® Data Management solutions • Store and display relationships across tables and databases – and across different source applications. • Discover and validate data patterns and formats, and view relationships across elements. • Enforce standards for both product and customer data sets. • Detect data that falls outside Figure 5. Create reports to share information about data governance initiatives, data predetermined limits and gain health and remediation issues with SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting. insight into source data integrity. • Use an intuitive interface to build customizable business rules to find data that does not comply with established standards. • Establish alerts to signal when data is out of compliance with established policies.

Figure 6. Review records and resolve issues with the remediation interface.

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