What is Data Governance?

For a long time, data governance has been at the heart of most other data management disciplines. Without proper data governance, your MDM, PIM, analytics, integration, data quality, and data architecture efforts won't deliver their full potential. At Unifi, we offer comprehensive data governance services, starting from the advisory stages through to implementation and support. We ensure your data management initiatives are well-governed and provide maximum value.

Data governance encompasses a range of processes, including master data management (MDM) and product information management (PIM) management. Given its broad scope, there is no one-size-fits-all approach—each company has unique priorities. At Unifi, our bespoke services are tailored to meet your specific needs, offering assistance from the initial advisory and implementation stages through to ongoing support as you grow and evolve.

Your data governance journey

Strategy & Advisory
Our advisory service is strategic. We help you understand what you really need from a data governance strategy. We assess your current position and help you discover where you want to be - this allows us to create a bespoke implementation plan. This might include: Maturity assessments High level framework design Roadmap creation Strategy creation Technology selection Organization design
Implementation & Integration
The implementation stage is crucial for the design and delivery of your data governance framework. In our advisory stage, we gain a full understanding of your vision – using our findings, we are able to design a relevant framework tailored to your requirements. So then, in the implementation stage, we aim to leave you with a functional data governance framework that you can roll out, safe in the knowledge it has been created with your business goals in mind.
Managed Services & Support
After we have created and implemented the framework, we offer ongoing support services. A data governance framework from Amplifi will be entirely unique so our continued support will be able to help you adapt as your business grows, making your data governance framework evolves with your business, not restrict it. This can be in the form of health checks, audits, facilitating data governance boards, support for metadata management tooling, training, and more.

Why do you need data governance?

Data Governance is central to most other data management disciplines. But what benefit does it provide when working alongside other data systems?
Data quality
Data governance and data quality go hand in hand. Data quality is a combination of tooling, people, processes and how individuals interact with data and each other – this is all intrinsic to data governance. Data governance provides a framework for high data quality.
Value
data governance combines people, process, technology and data into the simple frameworks that any Organization can adapt. The simple ingenuity of data governance improves efficiency and ultimately, improves data quality.
Efficiency
most challenges around data, including manual work and bad communication or siloes, are due to a lack of management of data. A data governance framework will help improve efficiency in your day-to-day work life.
System Implementation
data systems are expensive, especially if the data being inputted and used is of poor quality. Strong data governance frameworks provide you with the reassurance that any data systems you invest in, will be as helpful as possible.
Decision Making
by implementing a data governance framework, you can make decisions based on your data systems safe in the knowledge that your tooling and data is of high quality.
Reduce Costs, Increase Revenue
The old adages of reducing costs and increasing revenue can be tied to successful data governance. When done right, your business efficiency will significantly increase and you will notice the benefits to the bottom line.

Solving data governance challenges

Prioritisation
Once benefits can be imagined, we work closely with you to prioritize based on your business goals and plan your roadmap accordingly.
Buy-in
Sometimes business leaders cannot imagine or tangibly understand the benefits - we work closely to offer comprehensive reporting to curb this issue.
Implementation
Getting people to adopt new ways of working and stick to it is difficult but our consultants work closely on an implementation strategy to make the move as smooth as possible.
Perception
Data governance allows you to create and evolve and the spread through your Organization until it is naturally part of the day job.

Gartner’s 7 building blocks

Vision – what you want to achieve with your data
Strategy – how you are going to get there
Governance – the way that people, processes and systems interact with your data
organization – how your data strategy will be managed, supported and maintained
Process – the business processes
Performance metrics – measuring your MDM initiative’s success
Technology – choosing the software and systems that are right for your business needs