Are you wasting time and money on your data lineage?

Are you wasting time and money on your data lineage?

Asking the right questions can help you focus your efforts in the right way:

Are you trying to minimise the number of manual steps in your data flows? Are you capturing your lineage in a way that helps with this?

Are you trying to make sure you have the right controls across your data architecture, such as data quality, data integrity and reconciliation controls? Does your data lineage capture these so you can see where they are and where they might be missing?

Are you taking steps to make sure key processes and reports are using data from the right sources? Does your data lineage give you insight into which data sources are the points of initial data capture or nominated authoritative sources?

Are you trying to improve your ability to perform impact analysis, to enable faster and more effective delivery of change, or to better respond to incidents?

Or are you capturing data lineage just because it's a regulatory requirement?

It's important to be clear about your reason for investing in data lineage and be intentional about how you capture, maintain and use it, to deliver the outcomes that you're aiming for.

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