Implementing a data governance

framework as part of your BI success.

A data governance roadmap for BI leaders

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We believe in a think big, start small, scale fast practical

approach to data governance.
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Data governance looks different for everyone and we encourage organizations to

customize their data governance framework to suit their business and its needs.

Our primary focus is to highlight the importance of employing a holistic end-

to-end approach to data governance. We will describe how to use NodeGraph
as a toolbox to extend the reach of your data governance to include your BI
environment. We provide all the metadata that you need, in an automated way,
helping you to identify the KPIs that will drive your governance efforts.

In the spirit of starting small, this roadmap will help you choose a simple
objective to initiate your data governance framework. Following this, it will take
you through the steps of discovering your data environment, understanding
it, using these insights to govern it and improve data collaboration across your
organization. Finally, we will explore reviewing and updating your framework.
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Why should your BI environment
be included in your data governance framework?
Control
Are you in control of your data?
By taking control of all your data
touchpoints you can make evidence-
based decisions and scale confidently.
Trust
Can you trust your data and act on facts?
Enable data trust by providing
transparency of your company’s data
and its sources across your organization.
Quality
Where does the data come from?
Track, trace and test your data to ensure
that your data accurately represents
your business reality.
Collaboration
How is your organization sharing data?
Unlock data sharing across your
organization, helping to ensure that the
right people understand the right data.
Automation
What can be automated?
Don’t waste resources and money on
inaccurate and time-consuming manual
work.
Other:
• Enable self-service
• Democratize data
• Increase data literacy
• Create a data-driven culture 
• Gain competitive advantage
• Reduce data costs
• etc.
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Setting an objective.

Implementing a data governance framework should be based on the objectives you have as an
organization. The most important thing is that you initially focus your governance efforts on your main
objective. Other issues, gaps and targets will follow. Here are some ideas of where data governance can
provide increased value:

☐ Consolidate definitions for your KPIs

☐ Enable end-users to find faster the data they need
☐ Know where your data reside and how it’s being used
☐ Solve a compliance issue that requires correct documentation
☐ Adopt new data sources and manage a complex data environment
☐ Prepare for new regulations
☐ Migrate from one tool to another
☐ Manage merger or acquisition
☐ Set approval and ownership process for new applications development and change requests
☐ Implement regulations in regards to what data, expressions, graphs, etc are allowed
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Extending the reach of your data governance framework to include BI.

DISCOVER UNDERSTAND

Data Catalog. Data catalog that crawls across Data Catalog that automatically
Relevance

multiple ecosystems (BI tools, DWs, collects and catalogs all the building
ERPs) with powerful search. blocks of your BI solution.

Data lineage visualization to Field-level data lineage & impact

explore how the data flows from analysis for understanding of how
end to end. your BI solution is connected.

GOVERN COLLABORATE

Automated baseline and BI content Collaboration platform — rate

testing to ensure high data quality apps, add business descriptions,
comment and discuss BI content

Automated documentation & KPI catalog to share and search

scheduled reports for self-service BI through trustworthy and authorized
control and understanding KPIs
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DISCOVER UNDERSTAND GOVERN COLLABORATE REVIEW & UPDATE

Depending on your objective, this stage will help you get answers to questions like...

• Where does the data come from?

• Do we use data sources outside of our data deployment framework?
• Who is the Data Steward or owner of a specific KPI or application?
• Do variants of a specific KPI or application exist? If so, are they certified or authorized to use across the organization?
• What’s needed for the data to be complete, up to date and trustworthy at the point of consumption?

Methods of discovering your data landscape include...

Mapping landscape with end-to-end data lineage Cataloging the building blocks of your BI solution

This will give you a holistic data overview, This will make all your applications, KPIs and
allowing you to explore all your data fields that are used in your BI tool searchable
dependencies and understand how your data and more manageable.
landscape is interconnected.

Use our Dependency Explorer Let our Data Catalog help

Data Catalog.

Relevance
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DISCOVER UNDERSTAND GOVERN COLLABORATE REVIEW & UPDATE

Depending on your objective, this stage will help you get answers to questions like...

• What business questions do your KPIs and applications provide the answers to?
• What business logic exists in your solution — from KPIs to data sources?
• If there is a problem somewhere in your solution, who is affected by this issue? Will any visualizations be affected?

Methods of understanding your data landscape include...

Exploring the data lineage on a field-level Exploring BI content

By diving deeper into your solution, you will be Further understand and contextualize your
able to unlock a detailed understanding of your solution by exploring BI applications and their
data flow, data transformations and business components.
logic.

Use our Field Explorer Let our Data Catalog help

Data Catalog.

Relevance
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DISCOVER UNDERSTAND GOVERN COLLABORATE REVIEW & UPDATE

Depending on your objective, this stage will help you get answers to questions like...

• Which reports are using the fields in question? Who has access to these reports? Who has used these reports lately?
• How do business users find KPIs and reports they are looking for? How do they get access to data?
• Which documentation is needed to meet legal compliance and regulatory requirements?
• Who approves and owns change requests and requests for developing new applications?
• How do we ensure accuracy, completeness, reliability and relevance of authorized KPIs, reports, dashboards and expressions?

Methods of governing your data landscape include...

Identifying your success criteria for
governing your BI solution
This will help define your data governance
framework and related processes.
Acting on identified inconsistencies Automating documentation
This will lead to quick wins that will help Save time, facilitate collaboration and
explain the value of including your BI tool always be up to date.
in your data governance efforts.

Use our Dependency Explorer and our Data Quality Manager Use our Documentation Engine
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DISCOVER UNDERSTAND GOVERN COLLABORATE REVIEW & UPDATE

Depending on your objective, this stage will help you get answers to questions like...

• Will data enrichment and preparation be centralized or self-service?

• How will we enable self-service data discovery and preparation?
• Who needs to review data prior to it becoming shared and trusted?
• How do we share and promote trusted KPIs across the organization?

Methods of collaborating include...

Sharing trustworthy KPIs and applications Enable rating, commenting, and KPI descriptions
This will empower a data-driven culture and This will facilitate collaboration and data trust
will increase the value that your BI solution and will allow end-users to quickly find the data
provides your organization. they need.

Let our Data Catalog help

Data Catalog.

Relevance
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DISCOVER UNDERSTAND GOVERN COLLABORATE REVIEW & UPDATE

Depending on your objective, this stage will help you get answers to questions like...

• How often should our data governance framework be reviewed?

• How often should our framework be updated?
• Who will own this process?

Methods of reviewing & updating include...

Getting notified whenever changes that don’t Making it easy to add new data sources and be
correspond to your benchmark are made agile

Use our Data Quality Manager Use our Dependency Explorer

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A better way to work with data governance.

Data Catalog Dependency & Field Explorer Automated Documentation

Search and explore what’s inside your BI solution Experience fully automated end-to-end data Generate your BI system documentation
with our Data Catalog. lineage, on a field-level. automatically and always be up to date.

Data Quality Manager

Ensure that your BI solution is running correctly

with the use of automated testing.
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NodeGraph’s data intelligence platform helps reveal deep insights into organizations’ data,
allowing businesses to make quicker, more trusted and controlled decisions. Whether you are
looking for holistic data governance, end-to-end impact analysis or need help migrating your
data solution, NodeGraph does it best. We can assist with:

• Data Governance
• Data Discovery
• Impact Analysis
• Data Migration
• Automated Documentation
• Data Compliance
• and more

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