Risk and Governance Controls
The move to self-service data prep is all about speed and agility for the business user. But for IT, it means limited oversight, and with that comes increased risk. Most organizations have robust strategies to govern data that resides in managed systems like enterprise applications and data warehouses, but lack an approach to protect information pulled from multi-structured or unstructured sources. IT must be able to know how and when all data is accessed, who is authorized to see it and what changes are being made.
Data prep solutions should address governance risks by securely storing, managing and controlling access to source content, prepared data, reusable extraction and prep models, and created visualizations and dashboards – without impeding self-service analytics processes. The most useful data prep technology bridges the gap between the ease-of-use and flexibility that business users demand and the governance, automation and scalability needed by IT.