Plaid's data governance tool, Govern, is a cloud-based metadata platform that enables higher education institutions better understand their data. This tool provides capabilities such as search and discovery of datasets, understanding lineage between different on premise and cloud systems, data governance roles and user access. Plaid Govern supports thorough documentation, tags, business glossaries, visual data lineage across multiple systems, and ownership and usage information. Plaid offers Govern as a managed service.
Plaid Govern supports higher education institution data governance initiatives by centralizing data definitions and glossaries, making data lineage transparent and accessible, and facilitating impact analysis so that downstream impacts of changes are minimized. There are managed and open-source options available, with continuous innovation and feature releases. Plaid Govern allows for integration to various campus and vendor systems, and if an integration doesn't exist - is flexible and allows for custom development. This metadata management tool promotes trust in data by helping users understand where data comes from. Implementing Plaid Govern will support campus data governance initiatives.
- Connect to myriad campus and vendor systems
- Promote trust in data by helping users understand where data comes from
- Support campus data governance initiatives
With the Plaid approach, we provide:
- Automated Data Ingestion: Plaid Govern can connect to supported campus or vendor systems and automatically pull metadata such as tables, fields, datatypes, comments, or calculated field syntax.
- Integration with Common Higher Education Platforms: Plaid supports connections to a myriad of campus and vendor systems.
- Testing, Upgrades & Security: As Plaid Govern is open-source, there is regular innovation. Plaid supports testing and upgrading to new updates.
- Support: Support from an Expert Team who knows the Higher Education sector.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does Plaid Govern take to deploy and deliver benefits?
Plaid Govern delivers same-day deployment, providing faster and more scalable metadata management through an easy-to-use cloud-based platform offering centralized collaboration and governance functionality.
How can Plaid Govern reduce costs and increase efficiency?
Plaid Govern assists with reducing costs by generating automated data ingestion and documentation, saving time. Plaid’s Data Goverance also reduces risk by reducing dependency on key staff and enabling the ability to implpement data governance roles and user access. Accurate documentation and understanding of lineage provides greater clarity around data, lineage, ownership, and usage of data across campus systems.
What is the Plaid Govern managed service?
Plaid offers Govern as a managed service - meaning we take care of hosting, upgrades, security, sign on, and ensuring you can connect to your data systems. Our tool is based on the open source DataHub, which project provides a standard Apache license, the terms of which are incorporated into into your service agreement with Plaid upon subscription.
Why is Plaid Govern more effective than implementing an open-source tool ourselves?
Plaid takes care of ensuring single-sign-on, updates, security, and hosting. Additionally, Plaid has experience in developing custom scripts and integrations for platforms not yet made available in the open source world. Plaid has also designed custom features built exclusively for our higher education customers.
Data Protection – what is the compliance?
Our guiding principles:
- Only metadata, not data, is brought in. Only data about your data is ingested, no system data is ever brought in to Plaid Govern.
- We host Plaid Govern on Amazon Web Services, the world’s leading cloud provider. This allows us to provide substantial security around your metadata, ensuring that your staff can see what they need to know, and blocking unauthorized access.
- You choose where your data lives. In this context, AWS has numerous data centres throughout the world. You choose which one your data resides in.