ABSTRACT
In order for the new data warehouse to truly enable an organizational shift toward information-based analysis and decision making, the entire organization must embrace the challenges of properly governing and administering data. Data management needs to be an explicit and specific set of functions that must encompass all of the data across the enterprise, not just the data warehouse. The warehouse presents unique opportunities for enabling data governance because it is the one system in the institution that combines data from across literally all other systems. Governance challenges are made visible in the warehouse, yet the solutions to data problems often require going back to the data sources. Properly managed, data governance will drive the organization into an informatics-based warehouse-enabled future.
