11/3/2022 0 Comments Sentou Gakuen Revival![]() ![]() ![]() However, this is not a correct approach, because all that data has a Data Owner when it sits in the source system and that person still owns it even when it’s on a data warehouse. Because of the work they do it is quite common for such a team to be considered as the Data Owners for all data that’s in the data warehouse. For instance, you may have a BI or Analytics Team sitting in the business reporting line, who perhaps manage and support your data warehouse. I also often get asked if only IT can be Data Custodians? Generally, it is the case that Data Custodians sit within IT, but there are instances where business teams or functions may also act as Data Custodians. If this data isn’t being collected to meet the requirements of a business Data Owner, then it could easily be argued that IT own that data. This often isn’t being done for any direct business purpose, but rather to protect the business as a whole. One such example is maybe your Data Security or Information Security Team who may be monitoring telephone calls or internet activity. However, recently, I have come across circumstances where IT might own some data. They might own meta data, or performance data around the systems, but nothing more than that. These have usually been smaller organisations, where there is only one subject matter expert for each system and that person has been named as the Data Custodian.Īnother frequent question is whether IT is ever a Data Owner? Now this is an interesting questions as generally, I would say, no. I’ve worked with a number of clients where they have named their Data Custodians. That said, it’s not impossible to have named custodians. However, I use that more loosely as a collective term for all of the IT department who are supporting your infrastructure. However, once you have a Data Governance framework in place, the business usually gets much better at articulating data requirements and IT’s job gets easier.Īnother difference between the roles is that for Data Owners, I’m looking for named individuals who own one or more data sets. I think the confusion between the roles and who should be making decisions about data is rooted in a long term lack of Data Governance.īefore a company has Data Governance in place, it’s common that the business has not been trained in articulating their data requirements and therefore it is often down to IT to interpret or make decisions in order to help the business. They are responsible for maintaining data on the IT infrastructure in accordance with business requirements. They are usually a senior business person who has the resources, budget and authority to be able to make changes to that data if necessary.ĭata Custodians are very much an IT role. If you’ve read my blogs, you’ll know that I’m not fixated on sticking rigidly to the standard role names, but for the purposes of this article, I’ll to stick with what I consider “best practice” role names and consider both roles in turn:Ī Data Owner is a senior business stakeholder who is accountable for the quality of one or more data sets. I often get asked about the difference between Data Owners and Data Custodians. ![]()
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