Principles of Data Management

DATA MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

From the Data Management Specialist Group definition, it can be deduced that data management is a corporate service that:

• strategically supports the corporate definition, management and use of business data;

• operationally supports the development and maintenance of computerised information systems.

To meet its remit to provide strategic and operational support to the organisation, the data management function has a number of responsibilities. The key areas amongst these responsibilities are:

• achieving recognition of data, both structured and unstructured, as an enterprise-wide valuable business resource;

• improving the quality of the data held within the enterprise’s information systems and ensuring that there ...