Maximize data value with data stewardship

Data stewardship is a critical business function that oversees and manages an organization’s data assets to ensure high-quality, accessible, and compliant data. Actian empowers data stewards through automated documentation capabilities, intelligent metadata management, and comprehensive governance tools that transform manual processes into streamlined workflows.

Data stewardship ensures:

• Data quality standards are consistently met across all enterprise systems.
• Regulatory compliance checks are automatically applied and monitored.
• Data governance policies are implemented and enforced organization-wide.
• Enterprise data knowledge grows by breaking down data silos.

Actian Data Intelligence Platform provides the foundation for successful data stewardship programs by automating complex documentation tasks and enabling scalable governance frameworks.

Actian provides comprehensive automation that keeps your data governance current and effective through:

Automated Documentation

• Built-in scanners automatically collect and consolidate metadata from data sources.
• Daily synchronization ensures metadata reflects current system states without manual intervention.
• Smart recommendations suggest data classification and sensitivity levels based on content analysis.
• Template-driven documentation with drag-and-drop interfaces accelerates catalog item creation.

Quality Supervision

• Integration with existing data quality solutions to ensure data health during discovery.
• Automated quality assessment eliminates separate evaluation processes.
• Data quality metrics enable users to assess trustworthiness before issues arise.

Governance Automation

• Automated access provisioning ensures appropriate data access levels across teams.
• Automated compliance reporting supports regulatory requirements like GDPR and HIPAA.
• Role-based access controls maintain security and compliance.

Actian empowers data stewards to focus on strategic architecture and governance framework decisions.

Actian Studio is specifically designed for data stewards, data engineers, and governance teams to streamline end-to-end stewardship workflows, including:

Metadata Management

• Flexible metamodel templates for predefined and custom item types with drag-and-drop functionality.
• Dynamic visualization shows metamodel relationships and dependencies.
• Comprehensive documentation capabilities with custom properties and fields.
• Automated business glossary enabling consistent terminology across the enterprise.

Governance and Control

• Permission management system with read-only, edit, and admin rights assignment.
• Smart recommendations for data classification and policy enforcement.
• Automated identification and management of personal data assets for regulatory compliance.

Monitoring and Analytics

• Dashboard widgets that track catalog item popularity, completion rates, and watchlists.
• Analytics capabilities for creating reports based on catalog content.
• Smart recommendations identifying sensitivity levels and additional properties needed.

Studio operates on a federated knowledge graph architecture, ensuring intelligent relationships between data assets and seamless integration with Explorer for business users.

Actian transforms data stewardship from a reactive function into a proactive quality assurance framework that empowers organizations to maintain trusted, reliable data assets.

Quality Assurance Capabilities

• Automated synchronization with existing data quality tools displays trust indicators during data discovery.
• Real-time quality metrics enable users to assess data reliability before issues impact business operations.
• Smart data lineage provides end-to-end visibility into data sources, transformations, and dependencies.
• Field-level lineage tracking traces individual data elements through complex transformations.

Trust Building Through Transparency

• Automated relationship mapping captures connections between databases, applications, ETL processes, and reports.
• Data quality scoring integrated into search results helps users make informed decisions.
• Impact analysis capabilities identify downstream systems affected by upstream changes.

Continuous Improvement

• Automated discovery indexes new data assets as they appear across infrastructure.
• Daily metadata updates ensure current system state representation.
• Smart recommendations reduce manual tagging and classification overhead.
• Template-driven documentation ensures consistent quality standards.

This comprehensive approach enables data stewards to deliver trusted, compliant data at enterprise scale while maintaining confidence in data-driven decision-making.

Actian delivers measurable benefits to both data stewards and the organizations they serve through intelligent automation and comprehensive governance capabilities.

For Data Stewards:

• Reduced Manual Effort: Automated metadata extraction and documentation eliminate time-consuming manual tasks.
• Enhanced Productivity: Smart recommendations and template-driven workflows accelerate stewardship activities.
• Better Decision Support: 360-degree data visibility enables informed architectural decisions.
• Streamlined Compliance: Automated regulatory compliance support simplifies adherence to data regulations.

For Organizations:

• Improved Data Quality: Continuous monitoring and automated quality assessment ensure reliable data assets.
• Faster Time-to-Value: Automated discovery and classification accelerate data access for business users.
• Reduced Risk: Comprehensive audit trails and impact analysis prevent costly downstream failures.
• Enhanced Governance: Intelligent policy enforcement makes governance an enabler rather than an obstacle.

For Business Users:

• Increased Data Trust: Quality indicators and lineage transparency build confidence in data-driven insights.
• Improved Accessibility: Google-like search experiences democratize data discovery across the organization.
• Enhanced Collaboration: Centralized metadata repository facilitates data sharing between departments.
• Faster Decision-Making: Immediate access to trusted data accelerates business operations.

Effective data stewardship creates the AI-ready data foundation that transforms machine learning from experimental models into production-ready, trustworthy systems through:

AI-Ready Data Foundation:

• Context Enrichment: Comprehensive metadata provides critical context that helps AI systems understand not just what data is, but how it should be used.
• Trust and Reliability: Rich metadata, including quality indicators and lineage information, enables AI systems to produce context-aware, trustworthy outcomes.
• Production Readiness: A robust metadata strategy enables AI initiatives to move from isolated experiments to scalable, production-ready solutions.

Actian’s AI Empowerment Capabilities:

• Automated context capture through built-in scanners collects quality indicators and documentation needed for AI model training.
• A federated knowledge graph architecture creates rich relationships and context that AI systems require for accurate interpretation and to prevent hallucination.
• Trust indicators integration enables AI teams to assess data trustworthiness before model training or deployment.
• Comprehensive data lineage supports AI model explainability and regulatory compliance requirements.

Strategic AI Support:

• Clean, accessible, and governed data powered by comprehensive metadata management.
• Dynamic connections between AI systems and enterprise data through a knowledge graph architecture.
• Quality metrics and governance controls ensure AI training data meets reliability standards.
• Scalable data stewardship processes support growing AI initiatives across the enterprise.

Actian creates the intelligent data foundation that empowers AI-driven business transformation through context-rich metadata management.