Data Lifecycle and Policy in Practice
A deletion request is straightforward until you count the places the record went: a warehouse, three extracts, a dashboard cache, and last month’s backup.
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Master Data Management
Five systems each hold a customer record and none of them is wrong. MDM is the decision about what to do with that, not a product that removes it.
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Metadata Management and Lineage
Scanning a warehouse produces a complete catalog of names and types that answers almost none of the questions people actually arrive with.
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Data Quality and Data Contracts
A green test suite means the data broke none of the rules you thought to write. Whether the numbers are correct is a different question with a different owner.
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Data Governance Operating Model
A policy nobody owns is a wish. The useful question is not what the rules say but who decides, how fast they can decide, and what happens without them.