Every sizable organization will keep a Software Asset Inventory - containing both internally developed and externally sourced software, it's deployed versions, owners, licenses, and suchlike. Every sizable organization will keep a Hardware Asset Inventory too - including: servers, pc's, laptops, cellphones, networking and storage equipment. Typical use-cases for both are: dependency management, accounting/cost allocation, licensing and security management.

How many companies have a comprehensive Data Asset Inventory? One place to identify and catalog the Data - we mean ALL the firm's data, in all its structured and unstructured guises.

We present a Case study from a global financial company that has embarked on a journey to register and account for it's Data Assets, enabling them to prove to the regulators and their executive management that they know:

• What type of data exists
• Where the data is, geographically
• Who is responsible, accountable
• Which are the golden sources and authorized distributors of data
• The retention policies are being applied correctly and where archives are located
• Where the data is being used and through which interface formats
• Who has or had access to the data
• It's accuracy via a certification process

You will learn:

• Key use cases for the catalog, from regulatory, legal (eDiscovery) through to internal
• What is the true breadth of data under potential inspection
• Why current CMDB and IT asset inventories fail to cover data adequately
• How to model this area and strategies for population
• How to ensure the data is kept accurate including sample governance models
• How to classify and index your data
• Architectures for data cataloging
• Where the data catalog fits with other initiatives in data governance such as business glossary, taxonomy management, and data model management.