Accessibility

Data accessibility is about users’ ability to read and update the data needed for the business processes for which they are responsible. A high level of accessibility requires that data be understandable and well documented. Accessibility is a data and information quality dimension.

Master data management embraces governing the access rights and approval functionality around master data as part of proactive data governance.

A related discipline is metadata management. The term “metadata” is often used to refer to “information about information.” This discipline covers documentation and an enterprise-wide common understanding about what is in the data.