Plan, Build, Manage: A Model for Understanding Data Observability

Willem Koenders' analogy likens data management and governance to the components of a tangible structure, encompassing its assets and operations. Enterprise data observability (EDO) functions as a supervisory layer that elevates every facet of data management. EDO can be likened to a cutting-edge building management system for your data assets. By aligning Koenders' perspective with the point of view of EDO, it is explained how data observability enhances and bolsters each facet of data management and governance. Key points include: ensuring data asset reliability, managing data ownership, optimizing data usage and quality, maintaining data security, monitoring data architecture, preserving data domain integrity, enforcing regulatory compliance, managing metadata, assessing data quality, facilitating data remediation, tracking data usage, enabling seamless data integration, and optimizing data storage.