For these reasons, organizations are turning to data governance. Data governance is
an approach to managing information across an entire organization. It involves a
formal set of business processes and policies that are designed to ensure that data are
handled in a certain, well-defined fashion. That is, the organization follows
unambiguous rules for creating, collecting, handling, and protecting its information.
The objective is to make information available, transparent, and useful for the people
authorized to access it, from the moment it enters an organization, until it is outdated
and deleted.