Gartner - Market Guide for Information Stewardship Applications

The critical need for information governance continues to drive a diversified market for information stewardship solutions that support it. Data and analytics leaders must assess the capabilities these solutions offer to select vendors that will best suit their needs.

Key Findings

• Policy setting in information governance programs is still so different and inconsistent that no market of offerings is forming as yet. Furthermore, policy enforcement in information stewardship initiatives is conforming to a market, but now across a wider set of use cases.
• Information stewardship applications available in the market do not yet fully support the information steward's wider role and tasks.
• Growth in the market for information stewardship applications is being disrupted by new technology capabilities in adjacent markets, such as data quality and metadata management, and new regulatory requirements, such as GDPR.

Recommendations

• For data and analytics leaders working with data and analytics programs:
• Use the enterprise information strategy to identify where and how information stewardship applications could better drive business outcomes.
• Ensure that the solution requirements of business users performing information stewardship functions are met, by including them in your software technology evaluations.
• Match internal needs for information stewardship capabilities for multiple information-related projects with vendor solutions that are specific to this market space.
• Establish whether a vendor's support of the day-to-day tasks of information stewardship will suit the needs of your organization, by a proof of concept as a condition for purchase.

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