The Data Governance Analyst – Intermediate course describes why it is important for an organisation to identify its critical data and the business’s processes and the benefits gained from doing so. The course goes further to describe how other data is identified such as master and reference data.

It is important to know where all this data is being held within the organisation so the course also describes how organisations use data modelling and models along with data lineage, to better understand where and how their data is kept. The course can help users get a further understanding of how applications such as a business glossary and a CDE data standard are used, by detailing how data dictionaries and definitions are used to enhance the organisation’s understanding of their data.

The course also explains how it is important to have data which is of high quality, by detailing how organisations use data profiling and data quality rules to monitor the data which they hold. All of this will help users get good understanding of why data governance is important and some of the key areas around having effective data governance.