Ventana Research Introduces Best Practices Education in Data Governance

Ventana Research has launched the Data Governance Best Practices Research and Education Portal to ease the challenge of managing information assets effectively. The portal is sponsored by DataFlux.

Managing the creation, use and management of information is critical to reducing risk and achieving business success. The Data Governance Best Practices Research and Education Portal provides experience and research-based insights into how companies can address a key component of information management, data governance: the practice of setting policies and rules that guide the creation, use, and management of information using technology to automate the consistency, quality and integration of data.

The Data Governance Best Practices Research and Education Portal is the latest in a series of online education portals drawing on the extensive IT and business research conducted by Ventana Research. Ventana Research has drawn on years of research benchmarking thousands of organizations to create this portal. 

Ventana Research says it finds that too many people in organizations are not aware of the strategic importance of data governance. The portal seeks to bridge this gap, providing valuable knowledge derived from our research and experience.

"Most companies fail to understand how much competitive advantage they're giving away by failing to address data governance," said Mark Smith, EVP of Research at Ventana Research and the company's CEO. "By focusing on ensuring that the underpinning of information, data, is managed well, organizations have been able to achieve significant improvements in both efficiency and effectiveness. Still, there are too many companies that waste time and resources on information management processes that are not all that difficult to improve."

The Portal for Best Practices provides the benefit of years of experience and benchmarking research to help business managers to operate more efficiently and increase the value they bring to their organization.

"Organizations today are faced with an exponential amount of data - on customers, patients, citizens, employees, products, assets, locations and any other entity," said Tony Fisher, president and CEO of DataFlux. "To make sense of this information - and allow the organization to function at the highest level possible - companies need a data governance mindset where data quality is achieved, maintained, valued and used to drive the business. This cultural shift involves technology, best practices and the business support to be successful. The Best Practices Education Portal on Data Governance is a thorough and useful resource for any organization that wants to improve their business success through data governance."