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Business Data Governance - Assess you organisation now with our free online BDG Assessment Tool

Implementing an effective Business Data Governance capability is all about knowing where to begin and what to focus on.

A great place to start is getting some high-level insight into your current maturity and capability levels. Entity’s BDG Online Assessment Tool provides that insight – and the more of your colleagues and management you can get to complete it as well, the better those insights will be.

Once completed, we will provide you with a score analysis and our considered next-step recommendations. If you can get the management peers and colleagues to do the assessment, Entity will provide an anonymised, consolidated report for your organisation.

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it's not about the tech. it's about the data.

Too few executives and managers take effective ownership and accountability for the data created,
transformed and ultimately used to inform business decisions, strategic or tactical. That actual
content of the field in a data table, or an input form that forms the very raw material of every
decision we make in business. The accuracy and completeness of that data. It’s relevance to the
business, what it means and who uses it… who may use it. Way too few companies even look at that.

That is the essence of governing data. Embracing the mantle of ownership and accountability by
lines-of-business for their data and driving the execution of core principles that impact the
definition, purpose, quality, use, sharing, security and control of data. That is what governing data is
about.

MASTER DATA IS ON EITHER SIDE OF EVERY TRANSACTION AND THE HEART OF EVERY DECISION

The most fundamental and essential tool for business to execute governance over its data is the mastering of data that every transaction and business process is about… Master Data. Those rarely changing but ever important bits of data about the things that our business engages and transacts with, like customers, employees, suppliers, products, organisations – and the things that allow us to effectively analyse our business, including cost centres, hierarchies, locations and so forth.

An effective Master Data Management (MDM) solution provides business management with a powerful tool to resolve a single trusted view of a master data domain and further deal with the critical dimensions of data quality, conformance with ever-tightening data protection/privacy regulations and risk.