Top 10 Data Governance Tools that everyone should know

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Top 10 Data Governance Tools that everyone should
know
A data governance tool is a tool that helps with
the process of developing and maintaining a
well-designed collection of policies and
procedures that controls how the data of an
organization is accumulated, utilized, and
managed. The aim of data governance is to create
policies that characterize ownership, roles,
delegations, and data strategies by involving
different stakeholders from various departments
in the organization. It aims to create a
cooperative relationship between each silo of
data in the system by building standard data
definitions and formats.
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 Top 10 Data Governance Tools

• ASG Technologies
• The ASG Technologies Enterprise Data Intelligence
  (ASG DI) platform is a metadata-driven data
  platform that offers an end-to-end data view. It
  delivers a tool-agnostic solution that leads to
  creating customized metadata interfaces for your
  company sources, offering the knowledge of the
  entire data lineage.
• Features 
• Data cataloging DI offers automated data asset
  inventory that reaps metadata across different
  platforms, either distributed or cloud.
• Data Management It accumulates information from
  multiple data sources and provides an expert view
  for data governance.
• Visualization This data governance tool provides
  several controlled views for different
  stakeholders. It helps in mapping technical data
  descriptions to the correct business context for
  an end-to-end data view of the data. In addition,
  it offers visuals of data flow within the system.
• Data lineage It discovers data lineage by
  parsing code from data sources, applications,
  tools, and source code automatically.
• Flexibility and compatibility The users can use
  DI separately or in tandem with other products
  and solutions.

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• Ataccama
• The data governance tool, Ataccama proclaims it
  as a self-driven data management and governance
  Platform as a Service (PaaS). To make data
  management easy, it offers AI-driven automated
  capabilities.
• Features 
• Data cataloging Ataccama utilizes automated data
  discovery for creating data catalogs.
• Data management It provides Master Data
  Management capabilities. In addition, it accepts
  reference data management and data integration.
• Flexibility and compatibility It deals with
  on-premise, cloud, and hybrid layouts. Ataccama
  also works with different data stores like big
  data ones such as Spark, AWS, MapR, Google, and
  Azure.

• Collibra
• Collibra is a business-focused data governance
  tool or platform specializing in its
  automated data governance and management
  solutions. It strengthens businesses to
  understand their data and provide better business
  decisions.  

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• Features 
• Data cataloging Collibra contains a personal
  data catalog product linked to the business
  glossary and governance policies.
• Visualization It delivers end-to-end
  visualization of data lineage.
• Data lineage Collibra Data Lineage maps the
  bonding between data to display how it travels
  from system to system and how datasets are
  created, collected, sourced, and used.
• Flexibility and compatibility Collibra provides
  contextual search, intuitive workflows, and data
  dashboards and offers various report templates.

1. Erwin by Quest Software

Quest software is similar to Collibra, where it
provides a set of products that drive data
governance frameworks. It gives the Erwin Data
Modeler, Data Catalog, Data Intelligence, Smart
Data Connectors, and Data Literacy.

• Features 
• Data cataloging The Erwin Data Catalog automates
  processes in collecting, integrating, activating,
  and governing the organizations data based on
  business demands.

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• Data management Erwin Data Intelligence unites
  data catalog and data literacy. It accumulates,
  converts, and feeds metadata from different data
  sources, operational processes, business
  applications, and data models into a central
  catalog.
• Visualization Erwin Data Modeler is a data
  modeling tool used to determine, visualize,
  build, deploy and standardize high-quality data
  assets of the company.
• Data lineage It generates upstream and
  downstream lineage of data to the column level.

• IBM
• IBM is one of the effective data governance tools
  available in the market, offering the flexibility
  to support multiple data governance frameworks.
• Features 
• Data cataloging The IBM Catalog runs on machine
  learning algorithms and accumulates metadata and
  data assets.
• Data management The IBM solutions manage data
  starting from business needs to retirement.
• Visualization It provides data-profile
  visualizations, built-in charts, and statistics
  to deliver great business decisions.
• Data lineage It monitors data lineage by
  automatically profiling and segregating data
  assets.

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• Informatica
• Informatica provides the most time-managed
  solution, enabling business and IT to collaborate
  efficiently. It offers a comprehensive,
  integrated, intelligent data governance solution
  that stretches definition, discovery, quality,
  privacy, and data delivery.
• Features 
• Data cataloging The Informatica data governance
  tool automatically scans across multi-cloud
  platforms, BI tools, ETL, third-party metadata
  catalogs, and other data types to develop a data
  catalog.
• Data management Master data management and
  AI-based integration patterns are encapsulated by
  Informatica.
• Visualization Informatica offers a robust
  visualization of data lineage and history.
• Data lineage It helps automated data lineage
  monitoring. It tracks data movement, from
  top-level system views to low-level lineage, and
  provides detailed impact analysis.

• Io-Tahoe
• Io-Tahoe is the latest data governance tool that
  automates data management workloads, with a high
  priority on the quality of data.

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• Features 
• Data cataloging Io-Tahoe has self-operating data
  discovery to create the SmartData Catalog.
• Data management It determines relationships in
  structured, semi-structured, and unstructured
  formats of data using machine learning
  algorithms.
• Visualization It provides a high level of
  automation in data visualization to streamline
  the data flow.
• Data lineage It automatically creates
  comprehensive data lineage during the period of
  discovering data.
• Flexibility and compatibility Io-Tahoe works
  across different platforms.

• OvalEdge
• OvalEdge is a data catalog and data governance
  tool available in the market.
• Features 
• Data cataloging OvalEdge uses NLP and ML to
  organize and categorize data automatically with
  the help of tags, usage statistics, user names,
  and custom tags.
• Data management It assists data maintenance and
  management.

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• Visualization It offers a visual representation
  of data relationships, summaries, lineage, and
  indexed data for search and retrieval at ease.
• Data lineage It provides a visual representation
  of the data lineage to display the complete
  lifecycle.

• SAP
• SAPs Enterprise Master Data Governance tool
  brings together master data management with data
  governance.

• Features 
• Data cataloging SAP supports the creation and
  import of catalog.
• Data management SAP Master Data Governance helps
  consolidate master data and central governance
  scenarios under one application.
• Visualization MGD offers detailed, drilled-down
  data governance views.
• Data lineage SAPs Data Intelligence Modeler
  helps analyze and document the lineage of data.
• Flexibility and compatibility It can be deployed
  either on-premise or in the cloud.

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• Talend
• Talend gives a unified cloud platform for better
  data governance.

• Features 
• Data cataloging Talend provides powerful tools
  for data search and discovery.
• Data management Talend Data Inventory spots data
  silos across different data sources and splits
  them down with reusable and shareable data
  assets.
• Visualization Talend Data Fabric gives an
  end-to-end unified platform that plays the role
  of a single pane of glass for all your
  organizations data.
• Data lineage It provides intelligent tracing of
  data lineage.