The four pillars of applied governance
- Quality at Source Quality rules, deduplication, validation, and enrichment applied at the data entry point. Whoever creates the data is responsible for its quality, with observability to detect drift and schema change before they affect decisions.
- Traceable Lineage End-to-end data lineage: origin, transformations, calculations, and final consumer mapped. Audit knows why a number exists and what changed if it becomes a different number tomorrow. Enables LGPD compliance and AI audit.
- Catalog and Glossary Active data catalog with business glossary: what each metric means, who owns it, what SLA. Instead of a static portal nobody uses, metadata injects bidirectional context into tools (dbt, Snowflake, Databricks).