TopBraid Enterprise Data Governance » TopQuadrant, Inc

Organizations are increasingly seeing data as one of their most valuable assets, driving the trend for more comprehensive and responsive data governance. TopBraid EDG enables management and governance of critical business assets including business terms, reference data, data lineage information, data policies and requirements and other business, technical and operational metadata.

TopBraid EDG lets you govern all data: relational and big data, structured and unstructured – irrespective of its format and location. For the big data world, TopBraid EDG can also support configuration and job metadata specifications. For better alignment of data, TopBraid EDG comes with pre-built vocabularies of commonly used data types, such as Oracle, MySQL, Horton Works, Impala, and Apache Kafka. Using semantic standards-based graph technologies, TopBraid EDG offers flexibility, extensibility, and easy linkage across all data assets.

Data Governance Challenges

Data is taking center stage for businesses looking to stay competitive. Yet, since management of data remains disconnected, an over-arching need is for meaning of data to be understood and traced across all data sources and systems. Data governance addresses this need, documenting:

• how data is produced and consumed
• what data means
• what data is supporting business functions and enabling business capabilities
• how security considerations govern access
• how policies govern needs such as data retention and data provisioning

However, obtaining a seamless view of all governance metadata remains difficult. Too often, silo tools used by organizations for managing metadata, business terms and reference data can’t share the meaning of the information they manage. Some of the tools are too “geeky” for the business to use, others are too simplistic to capture the information technical stakeholders must know. Many lack the flexibility required by data stewards to seamlessly modify and extend the types of information they govern. They can’t keep up with the growing variety of enterprise data sources and data governance needs.

As a result, enterprises are still straggling when they need to address regulatory requirements, find the right data and ensure its quality.

Interested in learning more about business challenges TopBraid EDG addresses? Visit Solutions Overview page>>

TopBraid EDG provides a comprehensive data governance solution for enterprises that have heterogeneous data stores and data processing needs that are growing and changing. It provides a rich set of capabilities to support collaborative data governance:

• Intuitive Graphical User Interface – with auto-completion, drag and drop, rich text editing, search and filtering, accessibility across all browsers – providing easy to use environment for the business and technical stakeholders
• Flexible data and relationship modeling – handles both complex and simple data models and their relationships across domains, allows modeling, storing and using not only codes, but all relevant associated information
• Auditability – every change is logged and time stamped, change history can be searched; usage records capture where reference data is used
• Control over versions – virtual work-in-progress copies of data assets allow parallel development of versions and enable controlled publishing, review and approval workflow
• Collaboration – enabled through access and accountability based on roles; support for task assignments, statuses and issues
• Shared semantics – provides the ability to define and share meaning of all information elements globally and in the context of specific use
• Repeatability of on-boarding – lets users capture processes and best practices for on-boarding of external reference data
• Wide and diverse distribution – support for a variety of interaction patterns (e.g. batch or real-time) and integration approaches
• Data quality – offers intuitive forms for creating data validation rules
• Integration – with third party systems and Linked Data clouds via Web Services interfaces and APIs
• Easy extensibility – configurable user interfaces, reports, metamodel, import, export, web services and more including deep customizations using TopQuadrant's TopBraid platform
• Standards – built-in support for W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards for data and data models interchange on the web such as RDF and SPARQL
• Enterprise-readiness – scalable and robust architecture with LDAP and JMS integration

With TopBraid EDG, organizations benefit from:

Enhanced Value and Reduced Cost