From regulatory compliance to business transformation, designing and operationalizing data governance across the wider enterprise is key to their success
British Airways recently was fined 183 million pounds – or $228 million – by the U.K. for alleged violations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This is the largest penalty levied since the GDPR went into effect in May of 2018. Analysts caution that European regulators may accelerate cracking down on GDPR violators, which therefore could accelerate demand for GDPR readiness.
If any part of your business helps clients address risk management, including regulatory compliance, then you need to know that erwin is the only software provider with a complete, metadata-driven approach to data governance so customers can:
- Understand their business, technology and data architectures and the relationships between them
- Create and automate a curated enterprise data catalog, complete with physical assets, data models, data movement, data quality and on-demand lineage
- Activate their metadata to drive agile data preparation and governance through integrated data glossaries and dictionaries that associate policies to enable stakeholder data literacy
Five Steps to GDPR Compliance with erwin Data Intelligence
In fact, GDPR compliance can be automated and accelerated in five steps by using the erwin Data Intelligence (DI) Suite, which combines data cataloging and data literacy software, to:
1. Catalog systems
Harvest, enrich/transform and catalog data from a wide array of sources to enable any stakeholder to see the interrelationships of data assets across the organization.
2. Govern PII (personally identifiable information) “at rest”
Classify, flag and socialize the usage and governance of PII regardless of where it is stored.
3. Govern PII “in motion”
Scan, catalog and map PII to understand how it moves inside and outside the organization and how it changes along the way.
4. Manage policies and rules
Govern business terminology in addition to data policies and rules, depicting relationships to physical data catalogs and the applications that use them with lineage and impact analysis views.
5. Strengthen data security
Identify regulatory risks and guide the fortification of your network and encryption security standards and policies by understanding where all PII is stored, processed and used.
While risk management and avoiding fines for regulatory noncompliance is the No. 1 driver of data governance programs, other important results also are possible with erwin’s DI software. These include agile innovation and business transformation initiatives in which data-driven insights can be used to invent new products, keep customers happy and generate more revenue – whatever your clients’ key objectives are.
Let’s take a closer look at the DI suite’s components and how they work to automate data operations.
erwin Data Catalog (DC)
erwin DC automates enterprise metadata management, data mapping, reference data management, code generation, data lineage and impact analysis for faster time to value and greater accuracy when it comes to data-centric projects, as well as centralize data movement projects to harness “data in motion.”
Harvest metadata from data sources and data management processes and map data elements from source to target complete with reusable transformations within a single data catalog to determine data lineage, understand data usage and impact, profile data, deliver sample datasets and embed data quality metrics. Deploy data warehouses, Data Vaults, data lakes and other Big Data solutions, and harmonize data integration across platforms to optimize data management and underpin a data intelligence capability.
erwin DC efficiently integrates and activates data in a single, unified catalog in accordance with business requirements. With it, clients can:
- Schedule ongoing scans of metadata from the widest array of data sources.
- Keep metadata current with full versioning and change management.
- Easily map data elements from source to target, including data in motion, and harmonize data integration across platforms.
- Reduce reliance on technical resources and accelerate digital transformation projects because of an accurate picture of metadata landscape.
erwin Data Literacy (DL)
erwin DL gives data consumers the ability to view data that is relevant to their roles and understand it within a business context. It also provides a business glossary to enable the collaborative definition of enterprise data in business terms, complete with built-in accountability and workflow.
Then they can produce accurate, actionable insights and collaborate across the enterprise to enact them for the desired outcomes – from regulatory compliance to revenue growth. Comprised of the erwin Business Glossary Manager and the erwin Business User Portal, the erwin DL software suite ensures your company is fluent in the business language of data.
erwin DL explains what data means within a business context and then puts it to work. With it, clients can:
- Enable data consumers to define and discover data relevant to their roles.
- Facilitate the understanding and use of data within a business context.
- Ensure the organization is fluent in the language of data.
Combined as the erwin DI Suite, erwin DC and erwin DL fuel an automated, real-time, high-quality data pipeline. Then all enterprise stakeholders – data scientists, data stewards, ETL developers, enterprise architects, business analysts, compliance officers, CDOs and CEOs – can access data relevant to their roles for accurate insights they can put into action.
By partnering with erwin, you can help your clients meet their data governance challenges –avoiding GDPR fines like those against British Airways, as well as driving other strategic results.
Why partner with erwin?
You may have heard of erwin before; we are the providers of erwin Data Modeler, the world’s No. 1 data modeling tool. But as a stand-alone company since March 2016, we’ve made several acquisitions and significant R&D investments to become the only software provider with a complete, metadata-driven approach to data governance through our integrated enterprise modeling and data intelligence suites.
In addition to risk management/regulatory compliance, the erwin EDGE software platform also delivers an “enterprise data governance experience” for agile innovation and business transformation – from creating new products and services to keeping customers happy to generating more revenue.
Whatever your clients’ key drivers are, a strategic data governance approach – through business process, enterprise architecture and data modeling combined with data cataloging and data literacy – is key to success in our modern, digital world.
We have an award-winning partner program, including training, incentives and access to sales, marketing, and technical experts to help guide your sales efforts.
For more information and to discuss a formal partnership, please contact:
Ivan Polach
Channel Account Manager
ipolach@erwin.com
+1(800)7837946 * 126