Data Governance

Data Governance Services

At Merakāta, we apply data governance practices to all we do: Business Alignment, Architecture, Engineering, Analytics, and GenAI. Our services can be leveraged to deliver Data Governance as a top-down enterprise program or as an organic bottom-up, or somewhere in-between. Merakāta designs and helps implement the right-sized Data Governance solution for our clients.

  • Merakāta aligns our clients’ business value chain to their data lifecycle management needs. We believe this is critically important to identify the most valuable data assets, where valuable data are first created, the end-user consumption requirements, and how our clients’ valuable data needs to be protected and secured throughout the business process.

    Our Data Lifecycle Management services include:

    • Data definitions, metadata, and lineage

    • Data creation and acquisition

    • Enterprise data flows

    • End-user data consumption patterns

    • Retention, archiving, destruction, and disposal

  • Merakāta equips our clients’ teams with the knowledge and tools they need to foster data literacy and to optimize data usability by formally assigning accountability for data, analytics, and GenAI.

    Our Data Stewardship services include:

    • Stewardship program objectives and KPIs

    • Stewardship education, training, and mentoring

    • Stewardship roles and responsibilities

    • Stewardship policies and operating models

  • Merakāta’s data quality framework and methodology deliver business value in two ways for our clients – improving operational efficiencies and enabling faster, accurate business insights. Merakāta sustains that business value by implementing data quality as a core company capability.

    Our Data Quality services include:

    • Discovery and data profiling

    • Business rule and quality control development

    • Metrics definition and quality measures

    • On-going monitoring and root cause analysis

    • Recommending and implementing root-cause solutions

  • Merakāta facilitates and develops enforceable guidance on access, security, data use, and data sharing. We enable our clients to track and enforce regulatory compliance and conformance to data policies, avoiding penalties for poor compliance.

    Our Privacy & Security services include:

    • Data classification framework

    • Data access and usage controls

    • Data sharing agreements

    • Compliance with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA

    • Data masking and tokenization techniques

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