Enterprise governance

Enterprise governance is the set of processes and practices by which you align with your strategic objectives, assess and manage risk, and ensure that your company's resources are used responsibly.

IBM® Cloud Pak for Data includes several services and features that can help you govern your enterprise more effectively:

What do you want to govern? Examples Recommended tools and services
Business processes You want to ensure that a specific process is followed when:
  • Employees submit purchase requests
  • A change request is submitted
  • Contracts are signed
  • And so on
 Use workflows to manage business processes:
  • The Watson™ Knowledge Catalog service includes predefined workflows that you can use to manage the process of creating, updating, and deleting of governance artifacts.
  • Alternatively, you can use the workflow management feature to create and manage custom workflows.
Data You want to ensure that users can find and work with your enterprise's data. But you want to ensure that the data, especially sensitive data, is handled according to business rules and standards and to industry regulations. Watson Knowledge Catalog
Oil & Gas subsurface data You need to ensure that your data is compliant with Oil & Gas industry standards. Additionally, you want to tag your data to ensure that:
  • Applications don't consume data from an expired contract
  • Data lifecycle is governed by authorized access

Use IBM Open Data for Industries service to ensure regulatory compliance towards Oil & Gas industry standards.

 Open Data for Industries
Risk and regulatory compliance You want to ensure that:
  • Risks are identified, tracked, and mitigated
  • Compliance initiatives are managed and monitored
For example, you want to ensure that you have:
  • A business continuity plan
  • A financial control process
  • An assessment of risks posed by relationships with third-parties
  • And so on
 OpenPages®
Software libraries and packages You want to ensure that data scientists and developers use approved software and packages. Anaconda Repository with IBM