Introduction to Axon

Axon Data Governance is a knowledge repository tool that you can use to document the data objects that require governance. Data owners, data stewards, subject matter experts, and other responsible stakeholders collaborate across the organization to progressively chart the business reality of data, its lineage, and usage across processes, policies, projects, and regulation.

Use Axon to inventorize the objects in your organization. You can connect an object to another object with in the inventory and view the details on dashboards, maps, and search results. You can control the access to objects by creating roles and responsibilities.

After you govern the data, you can publish the data to Axon Data Marketplace. In the Data Marketplace, you can search for data that others users in your organization have published. Users from various departments in the organization can find data that can be used to make decisions that impact the business. Users can request access to the data and place the order from the Data Marketplace on a self-service basis.

You can decide whether you want to make the data available to everyone or restrict access to a particular set of users in Axon. You can create segments based on rules, regulations, or geography to authorize data access to users.

Inventorize

To effectively use Axon, you must inventorize the important data assets of your organization. Axon is a central repository for the frequent tasks performed by any department and the data assets used in the department.

Axon does not store any source data. Axon maintains an inventory of metadata such as systems, data sets, attributes, definitions, and projects. Content managers can manually create data objects or bulk upload them to Axon. Administrators can assign stakeholders to objects and establish ownership of data.

You can create the following types of data and technology related data objects:

You can create the following types of business and change related data objects:

You can create the following types of organizational data objects:

You can create the following types of regulatory data objects:

Connect

Axon connects data in the inventory and displays the connected data in dashboards, maps, and advanced search results. Content managers can manually define connections between objects. Axon consumers can view these connections after they open the object.

Axon displays lineage connections between objects as maps. You can view two types of map. You can view a local map when you open an object, or a system wide Insight map from the toolbar. You can narrow down the scope of the Insight map when you perform a Unison search. Unison search is a powerful search function that searches for the objects and the linked objects in all the available facets.

Axon displays dashboards to represent the health of your data. Axon displays local dashboards and system-wide dashboards. The local dashboard displays the data quality of the active object, including a roll-up of the data quality scores of linked objects. You can configure the information that Axon displays in the system-wide dashboard.

Control

Axon provides an integrated view of roles and responsibilities. Consumers of data can view object information from the Axon interface without logging in. Axon ensures that content is managed responsibly by permitting only assigned users to edit objects.

You can manage users in Axon with profiles and roles. Profiles control the level of access that a user has while working with Axon.

Content managers can assign stakeholders to objects. Administrators assign stakeholder roles to users. Every object displays a list of stakeholders. Stakeholders establish who in the organization has knowledge pertinent to the object. This allows all users to communicate with the right people when considering definitions and understanding the effects of changes.

Access

When you add governance metadata to the data, you create a context to use the data meaningfully. The context indicates whether the data is relevant, timely, authorized, and reliable. You can now make the data available to other users in your organization to make business decisions. Users can find the governed data and request access to the data assets.

The Axon Data Marketplace interface provides a controlled environment where users can browse, view details, and get access to data assets on a self-service basis. To know more about the Axon Data Marketplace, see the Axon Data Governance 7.0 Data Marketplace User Guide.

Authorize

You can create segments to make data available to users for simplicity, security, or regulatory reasons. You can authorize users to access objects based on the segments that you define.

You can allow information access to everyone. But there might be cases where the information might be restricted to a certain group of employees or geographical areas based on rules and regulations.