Tools, Technologies, and Processes at the Intersection of Data Governance and Policy Management, Enterprise Content Management, Document Management, and Records Management

A broader term for Data Governance is Information Governance, a discipline that also includes the management of policies, content, documents, records, and even business rules.

What do all these management efforts have in common? They all involve the development of rules and mechanisms for enforcing those rules. Software that solves information governance problems lets you capture these rules and apply them to data, documents, content units, and records. Many products provide publishing workflows and help you manage approvals.

Some products help you catalog and publish your rules, and some map policies and permissions to regulations or contracts or standards bodies. Check out these products; you may wonder how you lived without them...

Gwen Thomas
President and founder, The Data Governance Institute
Publisher, The DGI Website and DataGovernanceSoftware.com