Key Consideration for Data Inventory Mapping
- Data inventory and mapping need to be planned properly to help with analytics capabilities, promoting collaboration, developing data monetization plans and learning about current challenges and opportunities within the organization.
- Off the shelf data, inventory tools may not be suitable for your organization. Your business processes and how they interact with data need to be factored in while planning for data inventory automation.
- Data inventory and mapping need to be a continual process. In the information age, the type and amount of data mined every day are so huge that a very well done data inventory and mapping may become obsolete in a year.
- Implement a hybrid approach, a mix of automation and manual processes for maintaining data inventory to ensure security and integrity of personal data.
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