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Chapter 6

Data Governance Functions

The term “governance” is applied to several areas of
management of organizations and IT systems. At its base,
governance relates to the rules that describe the relationship
between the stakeholders of a company, that is to say its
employees, its managers, its third parties, its board of
directors, its shareholders and public authorities.

In our context, governance applies to the management of
an Information System in order to clarify the relationship
between business users and their IT department, but also to
support the IS and its underlying IT systems transformation.

We describe the “governance of reference and master
data” firstly by its business functions, laid out in this
chapter. The organizational aspects are dealt with in
Chapter 7.

6.1. Brief overview

Before going into a complete description of each function
of governance, we have summarized them with the help of

Enterprise Data Governance: Reference & Master Data Management, Semantic Modeling Pierre Bonnet
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