The IBM Data Governance Unified Process: Driving Business Value with IBM Software and Best Practices

This is a great reference guide for anyone that is setting up an Information Governance program for their organization. It is straightforward and easy to understand as well as being comprehensive in the description and sequence of steps for IG implementation.

The book provides a good overview of IBM DGUP, with a detailed description of the steps and substeps needed to bring this framework into practice.The appendices with practical templates for DG are pretty illustrative.I wish that the book contains more info connect to Content-Unstructured-Governance for all aspects of Information Governance.Another opportunity of improvement are the case studies, ie, they are not very complete, would be nice if the book contains more detailed Blueprints the application of IBM DGUP in differents types of industries and areas.The reference products related to Information Management brand that makes the author is really interesting (IBM definitely has the suite of products needed to support a program of DG end-to-end.)It would have been nice to have an appendix with a matrix that relates the framework IBM DGUP with the IBM products (cross-brand).I would have liked to see a bibliographic reference too.The cost-benefit of the book is broadly good and useful.

One of the best of the recent wave of data governance publication. Great value regardless of which flavor of DG you go with. Easy to read, hold and understand. mkp

They way I learn from books is to buy a Kindle version, highlight it and then consolidate the highlights from the Kindle notes page and review and review. I have done that with more than a few Kindle editions. I have now bought two IBM books and both only allowed me to highlight a very small amount of text before it starts truncating the text it moves to the highlights page in the Kindle Cloud. This breaks my learning method and make the book much less useful to me. I am not buying any more IBM books. I just read another book on Data Governance and it let me highlight as much as I wanted and it transferred it all to the cloud notes page. That book is getting 5 stars. Its content was better and its utility was far, far better. The PMI is another organization that is overly impressed with itself and it prints its PMP handbook on grey paper to prevent copying. After I read those reviews, I got the PDF version of their document and was able to do my thing. When security overcomes utility to this level... it has gone too far.

This book is short and too the point, I found it useful and covers most of what I was interested in. A good reference for someone trying to implement data governance

I didn't think to check what year it was published. 2010 is a long time ago in the world of data, but some principles have stayed the same. I plan to pay full price for a more recent copy though.

(disclosure: I was one of the review team and assisted with certain MDM aspects).Data Governance is vital to the success of master data management (MDM) projects - both initially and ongoing. During 2011-12, Global 5000 size enterprises will increasingly mandate that "no MDM program be funded without the pre-requisite Data Governance framework.""Go governance, go early" is the rallying cry of savvy enterprise and solution architects who are chartered with the setting the scope and direction of their enterprise's data integration programs. Understanding the scope, diversity and integration challenges is tremendously challenging.Nonetheless, business and IT leadership chartered with defining and executing MDM programs need help to understand and navigate through the numerous Data Governance options.Enterprise Architects, Solutions Architects, Directors of Data Governance, MDM Program Management, etc. - all are encouraged to get a fast track to "Go early, go governance" by reading and applying these excellent best practices, accelerators, and models gleaned by Sunil Soares in this much needed introduction to enterprise-strength Data Governance.Given IBM's "embarrassment of riches" in its diverse and deep Data Governance portfolio, Sunil's book does a great service in brining the various piece parts together as a "unified" process ... and in turn, calling out which IBM software components address which processes.Aaron ZornesChief Research Officer, The MDM InstituteConference Chairman, The MDM & Data Governance Summit (London, Madrid, New York City, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto)

Sunil has written a timely book on a hot business topic. Data governance is on the tips of executives' tongues at companies across industries, with many not exactly sure what's involved.Sunil's approach is distinctly IBM-esque--no surprise there, IBM is in the title--and anyone interested in understanding more about the tactics behind data management would be well-advised to view IBM's approach. Sunil offers a step-by-step process that is technology-enabled. The book is also a quick and easy read for the layperson just rolling up his or her sleeves on a data management project for the first time.I would think that this book would get traction even within IBM as a practitioner's guide to establishing business terms and rules for data. That in itself should make it a best-seller. But you should read it, too!Jill Dycheauthor of e-Data, The CRM Handbook, and Customer Data Integration