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:

Table 1. Services and features that can help you govern your enterprise
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 IBM Knowledge Catalog services include 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.	IBM Knowledge Catalog IBM Knowledge Catalog Standard IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium
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	OpenPages on Cloud Pak for Data
Risk and compliance for generative AI models	You want to manage risk and compliance for generative AI models and machine learning models.	Governance console in IBM watsonx
Software libraries and packages	You want to ensure that data scientists and developers use approved software and packages.	Anaconda Repository for IBM Cloud Pak for Data