Entitlements Within a Semantic Layer Framework: Benefits of Determining User Roles Within a Data Governance Framework

The importance of data governance grows as the number of users with permission to access, create, or edit content and data within organizational ecosystems faces cumulative upkeep. An organization may have a plan for data governance and may have software to help them do it, but as users cycle by 10s to 1000s per month, it becomes unwieldy for an administrator to manage permissions, define the needs around permission types, and ultimately decide requirements that exist for users as they come and go to access information. If the group of users is small (<20), it may be easy for an administrator to determine what permissions each user should have. But what if thousands of users within an organization need access to the data in some capacity? And what if there are different levels of visibility to the data depending on the user’s role within the organization? These questions can be harder for an administrator to answer themselves, and cause bottlenecks in data access for users.
An entitlement management model is an important part of data governance.