“You Can Have It All: Data Governance and Business Agility” Research

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Today’s increased acceptance of disruptive, multi-structured datasets has triggered the need for expanded data management and data governance practices. The prospect of an actual “coordinated data management environment” for metadata and data models is now within our reach. This environment builds on the development and maturity of collaborative tools to enable bidirectional communications between business and technical stakeholders.

In 2013, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) introduced the concept of a coordinated data management environment (CDME) that automatically maintains links between business and technical metadata definitions stored within a modern data model.