Data Catalog Consumers
Different Personas, Different Needs
Data Engineers Data Scientists
Build and maintain processing architectures,
data storage and data catalogs Need wide-ranging access to data
Work with security to implement access
control Need freedom to explore, impatient with
impediments
Need full access to data (at least
periodically) Need a range of tools to use as they see fit
Get the answers they need by creatively
using diverse tool sets
Figure 1: Data Catalog Consumers
Data catalogs can be deployed in one of two organizational models:
Policy – “you must” – This model focuses on organizational policies that
require compliance and punish departments and individuals who do not com-
ply with data governance policies. This model is most effective in top-down
organizations where staff are accustomed to centralized policy management
and accepting of the decision process to bestow policy upon them.
Give to get – “you will be rewarded” – This model is targeted at self-or-
ganizing organizations where collaboration is used to ensure compliance. This
model focuses on building trust between teams. If they put their data sets into
Master Data
Data Lineage
Business Glossary
Data Quality
Classification
Data Catalog
(metadata)
Data Licensing
Enterprise Data
Storage
Figure 2: Data Catalog and Contextual Data Governance Tools
20 | THE DOPPLER | FALL 2017