Data governance teams are absolutely vital in securing your customers' confidence and keeping up with changing data regulation. Highly publicized data breaches and stringent data security regulation, such as GDPR, is making the role of the governance team more difficult and causing data access, in some cases to be locked down. As a result, data governance is often seen as a necessary, but unpopular, arm of the data-driven organization.
But data access and data governance don't necessarily need to conflict. Armed with the tools to manage data access on a secure and granular level, data governance teams can be enablers of the organization.
Chasing data owners, experts, and engineers from data-producing systems takes up a lot of the valuable time of data governance managers, as they seek to rein in non-compliant practices. Compliantly decentralize accountability for data management with Contiamo.
With limited or time-consuming options to provide access to a part of or an anonymized version of a data set, governance managers are left with no choice but to lock data consumers out of valuable data sources indefinitely. Unlock the hidden value of that data and empower consumers.
Your data landscape is distributed, diverse, and complex. Consumers from across the organization are trying to access data, both compliantly and under the radar. Tracking usage across the data landscape is impossible. Until now.
With strict access controls and legacy systems, data consumers and engineers are resorting to exporting and distributing custom data sets in Excel, JSON, and Parquet files. Not only is this method of data delivery insecure, it is also highly inefficient. Make data delivery systematic, efficient, and compliant.
In a distributed system landscape, it is challenging to track and drive accountability. As a result, the governance team has become the internal officer of data compliance. However, if data ownership can be decentralized, with compliance and activity tracked in a single system, governance teams can focus on more important topics.
Data sets can be assigned one or more owners who become the point of contact and manager of that data. They can systematically grant granular data access, curate custom data sets, and assign data stewards who are responsible for managing metadata.
Sensitive data, such as company financial information or personal identifiable information (PII), has historically been locked away. Data scientists and analysts alike have been unable to use this data to drive business value. With Contiamo, you can compliantly access this data by hiding, masking, or filtering data from some users.
Data owners can set granular access policies to provide access to users compliantly. With the option to mask columns to anonymized customer data or filter rows to, for example, provide data for only a specific country, you now have full access over what data is seen. Filters and masks can be applied based on the data or metadata fields.
Thousands of tools, systems, and employees across your organization are consuming untold amounts of data, both sensitive data and otherwise. Tracking this, in a complex, distributed data landscape, is impossible. However, Contiamo provides a platform to centrally track data requests and usage from across your data sources and BI platforms.
On a per-data-source level, you are able to see which users have access to which data sources and through which data policies. Grant and revoke data access with just a couple of clicks, ensuring that no one has access to data that they shouldn't, while accelerating access for those that should.
For years, a shadow data marketplace has been allowed to blossom in large organizations. Data exports from legacy systems, and even modern data lakes, have been customized, distributed, and consumed due to ease and speed of access. In some organizations, this has accelerated as data compliance regulations tightened.
In a single platform, Contiamo allows you to request access, curate custom data sets, and make them available for consumption in external platforms of your choice, such as Tableau, PowerBI, and Alteryx. This removes the need for a shadow data marketplace as compliant access is simplified and data access becomes real-time.
"Contiamo's platform, partnership, and expertise has enabled us to quickly test, iterate, and deploy data science solutions."
Head of AI, Deutsche Telekom
