Data stewardship

Increase your data knowledge with automated documentation

The objective is to improve and facilitate the understanding of your data assets and data initiatives for your new data consumers.

This new data management discipline will enable you to locate your data more easily and break siloed environments and sources.

The challenges of Data stewardship

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Operational supervision and quality

Define, and therefore implement, the necessary processes for the acquisition, storage, and distribution of datasets.

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Documentation

A Data Steward is in charge of defining and documenting data as well as creating a glossary of industry-specific terms.

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Conformity and risk management

Ensure that the proliferation of data is framed by a collection of protocols ensuring conformity.

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Security and access control

Define the rules governing data access and their different levels of confidentiality.

Begin your Data Stewardship program

Most organizations today are aware that handling data is becoming increasingly
complex.

In order to maximize the value of this data, Zeenea provides a metadata management solution enables you to find out where the data is, what attributes it has and where it originates from.

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Import & edit business glossaries

Create, modify and link your business terms to catalog items.

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Inventory your data processes

Create and import your data processes and view their data lineage.

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Create a taxonomy of research

Properties, tags, and many other fields that allow anyone to find the asset they need.

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Access to your dashboard

Use a dashboard to monitor the documentation evolution in your catalog.

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Curate your data from your sources

Import datasets from the same data storages and their documentation.

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Assign contacts

For each item in the catalog, add referring contacts and an associated role.

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Edit modular & evolutive metamodels

Define documentation templates with simple “drag & drop” features for all your catalog items.

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Enrich your data catalog

Our solution’s intelligence detects sensitive data and suggests additional properties.

Document your data assets with ease and automation

You don’t have to be an expert to quickly get started.

Find out more about Data Stewardship

Defining a metamodel template

In order for your data users to discover relevant documentation in your data catalog, it is essential to ask yourself the right questions and know how to answer them.

With our toolkit, data leaders can focus on the Who, What, Where, Why, When and How of their data!

These questions can be used as support to build your data documentation model and provide data consumers with the elements that are useful to them.

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Digital transformations bring about new challenges in the data industry. We are increasingly talking about data stewardship; an activity focused around data management and documentation of an organization. In this article, we would like to present the data stewards, the enterprise’s true guardians of data, take a closer look at their role, their missions, and their tools.

This article is a summary of the interviews conducted with more than 25 data stewards in medium-sized and large French enterprises. The goal was to understand their tasks and their hardships in metadata management, providing solutions within our data catalog.

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