Revolutionizing Data Lineage for Businesses and Enterprises

In the digital age, data is king, and every business has a valuable data story — are you harnessing the power of effective data lineage to scale your business?

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Unleash the Provenance of

Your Data

Use a pragmatic approach to large scale lineage. Achieve a comprehensive understanding of how data flows through your organization. Use our automated approach to gain visibility in your data. Build trust with end-to-end data lineage across your data ecosystem.

Find Lineage

Automated analysis of the actual flow of data through your enterprise. Understand in real-time, where that data originated, how it flowed through the ecosystem, and how it is transformed en route. Save time and money spent on manually documenting and maintaining lineage.

Validate Lineage

Utilize our advanced techniques, including data overlap analysis and temporal analysis, to ensure precise lineage validation and detect flow direction.
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Accumulate Proof

Use our software to ensure data lineage validation by accumulating physical evidence through advanced data overlap analysis and logical evidence via value overlap.

Visualize Lineage

Effortlessly trace the end-to-end flow of gathered data with intuitive visualization, offering a comprehensive understanding of your processes and facilitating informed decision-making. Impact analysis leverages the automated processes that meticulously analyze the data changes, providing insights into potential changes and transformation across your system.

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Enforce Policy

Trace values across the system and achieve Daily Observability Report by assessing completeness or identifying missing records through Operational Data Quality Rules. Facilitate Policy Governance, empowering users to manage DQ Rules, detect errors by tracing data, and swiftly identify the sources of discrepancies.

Frequently Asked Questions about Data Lineage

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What is data lineage and why is it important?

Data lineage is like a roadmap that shows where your data comes from, where it goes, and what happens to it along the way. It's important because it helps you make sure your data is accurate and trustworthy. Data lineage is a crucial guide that helps organizations use and manage their data effectively and with confidence.

How to use data lineage to improve data quality?

Improving data quality using data lineage involves a systematic approach to understanding, monitoring, and managing the flow of data within your organization. There are some steps you can take to use data lineage for enhancing data quality.

  • Identify and document where your data comes from (sources) and where it goes (destinations). Understand the systems, databases, applications, or external sources that contribute to your data.
  • Document the processes and transformations applied to the data as it moves through the system.
  • Define key data quality metrics based on your business requirements (e.g., accuracy, completeness, consistency). Use these metrics to evaluate the quality of data at different points in the data lineage.
  • Implement a system to monitor and track changes to the data lineage over time. Set up alerts or notifications for any anomalies or deviations from predefined data quality thresholds.
  • Conduct regular audits of the data lineage to ensure alignment with business objectives and data quality standards.

By systematically incorporating these steps into your data management practices, you leverage data lineage as a powerful tool for maintaining and enhancing data quality throughout your organization.

How do you create a data lineage?

With Global IDs’ solutions, you can create lineage by classifying data sources and by using a combination of automated and limited manual input, to validate the path of the critical data elements, in the context of results such as reports or models.

What are the most important challenges of data lineage?

The top challenges of data lineage often revolve around complexity, standardization, and dynamic data environments. Here are the most important ones:

  • Complexity of Data Ecosystems: Many organizations have intricate and interconnected data ecosystems, involving multiple systems, databases, and processes. This complexity makes it challenging to accurately capture and represent the entire data lineage. It becomes difficult to create a clear and comprehensive view of how data flows through the organization, leading to potential gaps or inaccuracies in the data lineage.
  • Lack of Standardization: Inconsistent naming conventions, data structures, and formats across different systems hinder the standardization of data lineage. Each system may use its own terminology, making it challenging to create a unified and easily understandable view. Without standardization, interpreting and following data lineage becomes more complicated.
  • Dynamic Data Environments: Data environments are dynamic, with constant changes in data sources, processes, and destinations. Keeping data lineage up-to-date manually can be a time-consuming task, especially in environments where changes occur frequently. Outdated data lineage information can lead to incorrect assumptions, impacting decision-making and data quality. Automation and regular updates are essential to maintain the accuracy of data lineage in dynamic environments.
How to use data lineage to comply with regulations?

To use data lineage to comply with regulations:

  • Map Data Flows: Use data lineage tools to map how data moves through your organization.
  • Identify Sensitive Data: Clearly label and track sensitive or personally identifiable information (PII).
  • Document Processes: Detail the steps and transformations applied to data at each stage of its journey.
  • Link to Policies: Connect data lineage documentation to your organization's data governance policies.
  • Implement Access Controls: Set up access controls to restrict access to sensitive data within the lineage.
  • Maintain Audit Trails: Use tools that provide audit trails and versioning for tracking changes to data lineage.
  • Automate Compliance Checks: Implement automated checks to ensure ongoing compliance with regulations.
  • Document Retention Policies: Clearly document and enforce data retention and deletion policies.
  • Include External Sources: Incorporate data lineage from external sources if applicable.
  • Educate Stakeholders: Ensure relevant stakeholders understand the role of data lineage in compliance.
  • Conduct Regular Audits: Schedule regular audits to verify alignment between documented lineage and actual practices.

By following these concise steps, organizations can leverage data lineage to demonstrate compliance with regulations efficiently.

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Episode Details

In this episode of Bloor InAudio, Dr. Arka Mukherjee, CEO of data management software company Global IDs joins Bloor Research Senior Analyst Andy Hayler and host Elizabeth Hotson BBC presenter and journalist, to look at the key role data lineage plays in ensuring data quality across an organisation.

The Team Discuss the Following Questions:

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From small businesses to massive enterprises, data is the most valuable commodity one can possess — if leveraged properly. Data is the resource that fuels the modern economy, yet few businesses have utilized the power of data lineage to its highest extent.

That is where Global IDs come in.

  • Understand the nuanced concept of data lineage
  • Gain insight into your businesses data lineage
  • Use that insight to drive educated business decisions that lead to incredible growth.

What is Data Lineage?

You might be wondering what data lineage means.

Essentially, data lineage is the story behind the data that is driving business initiatives and their recorded visual processes. Today, business processes are inextricably linked with the way data is managed, so wouldn’t it make sense to tap into these data pathways with strategic insight?

Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end, but what about everything in between? What about the peaks, the plateaus, the character development, and the plot twists? This is data lineage.

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Data originates somewhere in the enterprise and flows through intermediate data stores to other points where it is finally consumed. Typically, these flows have been built out gradually over time, using different technologies like Data Lineage Tools, with the data crossing organizational boundaries in the enterprise, and with no actively maintained documentation.

To put it simply, data lineage is the process of understanding, recording, and visualizing data as it flows from data sources to consumption, how it has changed along the way, and why. Understanding how data flows through a business or enterprise can be instrumental in diagnosing problems, finding targeted solutions, and projecting realistic and scalable growth.

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How Does Global IDs Help?

Data lineage Management is a concept not often focused on, yet it has a direct and lasting impact on business initiatives, strategies, and health. When leaders are not provided with an end-to-end understanding of how their data flows through the business, they lack an instrumental tool that gives owners a leg up on the competition.

Global IDs is bridging the gap between results-focused data lineage and businesses to help revolutionize the modern digital economy. By providing powerful capabilities to detect data lineage processes across enterprises, and extracting that information in a digestible manner, Global IDs has made an advanced concept accessible to businesses and enterprises of all sizes.

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The data lineage Global IDs provides is dynamic, detailed, and the perfect tool for any business in any industry. Leveraged in a multitude of ways, Global IDs data lineage provides a bird’s eye view of all data flow, pathways, problems, and value.

Consider the following scenario:

Perhaps a business user suddenly becomes curious about how an odd data value has appeared in a report. Where did it come from? 

Without accurate and effective data lineage, this question can be as difficult as a wild goose chase and required hours at the end of manual retracing to accurately diagnose the problem. However, with Global IDs’ data lineage, the pathway can be immediately visualized to inspect and diagnose any issues and provide a quick and effective solution without the extra hassle.

Streamline Business Processes with Global IDs’ Data Lineage

Just as Global IDs help an individual business user, we can also help entire teams or departments who want to re-engineer and streamline their business processes. Most business processes rely on underlying data supply chains to run, manage and grow their business.

Until recently, it has been an impossible task to re-engineer data supply chains as most business transformation teams are often relying on guesswork alone. However, the full extent of any business’ data supply chains can be revealed through Global IDs Data Lineage by rationalization and alignment to new business processes, subsequently reducing risk and expense by a large margin.

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Streamline Business Processes with Global IDs’ Data Lineage

Just as Global IDs help an individual business user, we can also help entire teams or departments who want to re-engineer and streamline their business processes. Most business processes rely on underlying data supply chains to run, manage and grow their business.

Until recently, it has been an impossible task to re-engineer data supply chains as most business transformation teams are often relying on guesswork alone. However, the full extent of any business’ data supply chains can be revealed through Global IDs Data Lineage by rationalization and alignment to new business processes, subsequently reducing risk and expense by a large margin.

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Level-Up Business Processes and Reduce Fatal Risk to Your Business or Enterprise

While the digital age has brought forth some of the world’s top innovations, it also brought with it an incredible amount of risks and regulations that businesses must address diligently.

Global IDs’ Data Lineage is not just about data movement, but also the transformations that happen to data as it moves. These transformations can be subtle and go unnoticed – and can be very difficult to discover years after they have been built.

Large corporate initiatives such as migration to the Cloud often suffer from a lack of understanding about these transformations until they are unexpectedly manifested as problems, and any problems with regulations and compliance can cause severe and irreparable damage to a business, brand, or enterprise.

Often the biggest mistakes could have been avoided by the simplest solutions. Global IDs’ data lineage is that solution.

Not convinced? Have questions? Give us a call at +1 (888) 514-0192 to learn more about Global IDs’ Data Lineage and to request a demo.

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What’s the story behind your data?

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Global IDs’ Data Lineage Features and Benefits

The Global IDs platform maintains an up-to-date, comprehensive inventory of data assets, wherever they are in the ecosystem.

Automated discovery of sources, flow paths, and transformations of data across the ecosystem
Gain one-of-a-kind insight into your business’ data lineage story
Diagnose data-related issues and immediately compile educated solutions
Address the challenges of next-generation data ecosystems
Establish provenance of data for compliance and evidence-based decision making
Mitigate risk for businesses and enterprises of all sizes
Accelerate enterprise digital transformation
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Global IDs is on a mission to change the face of modern businesses to usher in a new era of educated and empowered businesses who lean on data lineage to fuel business decisions. To accomplish this, there are two major components to consider:
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Frequently Asked Questions

Data Lineage is the understanding of where data originates and any changes or transformations along the path until it meets its final destination. In the context of Data Governance, it is evidence of this data flow.

Data will be transformed in many ways from its original data source to meet the requirements of its intended use. As such, there is an opportunity for the quality of data to be compromised. Unless you can identify the many transformations along the path, you cannot ensure the quality of the data with confidence.

Data Lineage is for impact analysis, root cause determination, and optimization opportunities.

With Global IDs’ solutions, you create lineage by classifying data sources and using a combination of automated and limited manual input to validate the path of the critical data elements in the context of results such as reports or models.

Lineage is captured through Classified data sources, ETL code, or manual input.

Organizations need to understand if data is trustworthy and data lineage gives the transparency to create that trust. Know where your data comes from and how it has changed. Additionally, data lineage is an important control in data management/governance for auditors and regulators.
Don’t Take Our Word for It — See What Others are Saying about Global IDs' Data Lineage

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The auto-discovery of data and its profiling is a miracle. The Machine Learning Algorithms for the data profiling are well executed. The overall workflow of the tool is exceptional and well thought out.

CDO, Manufacturing

The automation of metadata collection. It is impossible to gather this information manually, and a wide range of metadata is needed to make sense of any data environment. Global IDs delivers the complete picture that is needed.

President, Banking

The Global IDs team is willing to go the extra mile in order to ensure that their product is among the best in terms of data quality and management.

Data Governance Specialist, Banking

My favorite aspect of Global Ids is the company itself. The leadership of Global Ids has demonstrated to me that it cares greatly about my success in using the product and ensuring I am getting the right value to help my company in meetings its goals

Data Governance Lead, Finance

The support team makes all of the difference. They’re always willing to work with you to create whatever you feel like is missing or needs to be tweaked to provide a better end-user experience

Data Governance Lead, Banking

The company has a passion for adding new product features that are needed for modern metadata management, and they strive to truly understand the needs of their customers. The technical depth of the product provides confidence in its applicability and use. Overall, it is the ecosystem approach that really sets Global Ids apart from the competition.

President, Banking