Few commodities as crucial to an organization’s success as data. From IT and business operations, through strategic decisions, to sales and marketing pipelines, technology professionals need to maximize value from their organization’s data. As such, organizations are giving data governance more attention and increasingly prioritizing it in their IT planning. The concept of data governance encapsulates the policies and procedures necessary to ensure an organization’s data is accurate and the strategies needed to deliver increased visibility, transparency, and control, while reducing risk across the entire data estate.