Today, Microsoft introduced the profitable completion of the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) 14 Key Controls and Automations certification, performed by Accenture and Avanade, accelerating the business’s transfer to the cloud. The 14 Key Controls and Automations are part of the EDM Council’s Cloud Data Management Capabilities framework formulated as a finest observe to assist all industries speed up the migration of delicate and non-sensitive knowledge to the cloud with confidence. This certification demonstrates Microsoft’s dedication to offering complete CDMC cloud knowledge administration automations and controls for shielding delicate knowledge to speed up trusted cloud adoption.
When we first joined the EDM Council’s CDMC Work Group in May 2020, Microsoft was initially of its journey constructing out what’s now referred to as Microsoft Purview, our unified knowledge governance and compliance answer. We joined over 300 business knowledge thought leaders with illustration from the world’s largest banks and expertise firms to establish a management normal to maintain knowledge protected.
Every group we’ve had the chance to have interaction with is trying to speed up its use of knowledge to drive its enterprise outcomes. Best practices for the best way to govern knowledge because it strikes to and is born within the cloud had been a relentless space of dialogue and wish. This is why we had been so excited to companion with the EDM Council and thought leaders across the globe to make knowledge governance observe within the cloud less complicated and extra approachable, permitting everybody to derive extra worth from knowledge.
“Across every industry, we’ve seen that clients who are capitalizing on data are driving innovation and competitive advantage. Avanade clients are transforming their business through data strategies and capabilities including data fabric, data mesh, and modern analytics and governance at scale. With the CDMC certification of Microsoft’s cloud platform, our clients will be able to leverage industry-leading governance best practices advanced by the EDM Council, and we will expand this to more organizations and achieve stronger business outcomes.”—Simon Thomas, Global Head of Data and AI, Avanade
The 14 Key Controls and Automations
Governance and accountability
1. Data Control Compliance should be monitored for all knowledge belongings containing delicate knowledge by metrics and automatic notifications.
2. The Ownership area in an information catalog should be populated for all delicate knowledge or in any other case reported to an outlined workflow.
3. A register of Authoritative Data Sources and Provisioning Points should be populated for all knowledge belongings containing delicate knowledge.
4. The Data Sovereignty and Cross-Border Movement of delicate knowledge should be recorded, auditable, and managed in accordance with outlined coverage.
Cataloging and classification
5. Cataloging should be automated for all knowledge on the level of creation or ingestion, with consistency throughout all environments.
6. Classification should be automated for all knowledge on the level of creation or ingestion and should all the time be on.
Accessibility and utilization
7. Entitlements and Access for Sensitive Data should default to the creator and proprietor and entry should be tracked for all delicate knowledge.
8. Data Consumption Purpose should be supplied for all Data Sharing Agreements involving delicate knowledge.
Protection and privateness
9. Appropriate Security Controls should be enabled for delicate knowledge and proof should be recorded.
10. Data Privacy Impact Assessments should be routinely triggered for all private knowledge in accordance with its jurisdiction.
Data lifecycle
11. Data Quality Measurement should be enabled for delicate knowledge with metrics distributed when obtainable.
12. Data Retention, Archiving, and Purging should be managed in accordance with an outlined retention schedule.
Data and technical structure
13. Data Lineage data should be obtainable for all delicate knowledge.
14. Cost Metrics instantly related to knowledge use, storage, and motion should be obtainable within the catalog.
In at this time’s surroundings, many organizations want to set the info basis in place to rapidly adhere to ever-changing regulatory necessities throughout multi-jurisdictions. They’re additionally searching for the boldness that knowledge is correctly protected irrespective of the place it resides. Without having the foundational layer in place, analytics and AI won’t ship trusted insights. This milestone for the business permits organizations to stability their offensive and defensive place with regards to producing worth from their knowledge and assembly compliance requirements.
“The Cloud Data Management Capabilities framework represents the best practices in data on cloud from a huge number of financial services companies and other leading data practitioners from across other industry groups. It is great to see Microsoft natively certifying their platform against CDMC key controls, automating the most important capabilities in data management, which will help accelerate adoption of cloud services. We are excited by their continuing contributions to extend CDMC into new areas this year.”—Oli Bage, Co-chair of CDMC Work Group and Head of Architecture for Data and Analytics, London Stock Exchange Group
“Microsoft’s certification of the CDMC 14 Automated Key Controls is an impressive accomplishment because it marks the completion of a comprehensive, in-depth confirmation of their cloud leadership. Having its cloud platform independently certified will give Microsoft’s clients even greater confidence in accelerating their own adoption of cloud and hybrid-cloud strategies with the assurance that their data is controlled and protected.”—John Bottega, President, EDM Council
Microsoft’s certification permits consumer firms throughout all sectors to implement finest practices inside their very own operational environments and make sure that the 14 Key Controls will shield their delicate knowledge cross-jurisdiction and velocity their very own certification in opposition to the CDMC Key Controls.
About Avanade
Avanade is the main supplier of modern digital, cloud and advisory companies, business options, and design-led experiences throughout the Microsoft ecosystem. Every day, their 60,000 professionals in 26 international locations make a real human impression on purchasers, workers, and prospects.
They have been acknowledged, along with their father or mother, Accenture, as Microsoft Global SI Partner of the Year greater than some other firm. With essentially the most Microsoft certifications (60,000 plus) and 18 (out of 18) Gold-level Microsoft competencies, they’re uniquely positioned to assist companies develop and remedy their hardest challenges.
They are a people-first firm, dedicated to offering an inclusive office the place workers really feel comfy being their genuine selves. As a accountable enterprise, they’re constructing a sustainable world and serving to younger individuals from underrepresented communities fulfill their potential.
Majority owned by Accenture, Avanade was based in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation. Learn extra about Avanade.
About EDM Council
EDM Council is the worldwide affiliation created to raise the observe of knowledge administration and analytics as a enterprise and operational precedence. The Council is the main international advocate for the event and implementation of knowledge requirements, finest practices, and complete coaching and certification applications. With over 350 organizations from the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and over 25,000 knowledge administration professionals as members, the EDM Council gives a venue for knowledge professionals to work together, talk, and collaborate on the challenges and advances in knowledge administration and analytics as essential organizational capabilities. For extra, go to the EDM Council.
Learn extra
- Get began accelerating your cloud knowledge program with a CDMC Assessment and study extra about Microsoft Purview, our unified knowledge governance platform.
- You may uncover finest practices for cloud knowledge administration from the EDM Council’s CDMC framework, together with a free obtain.
- For extra data, examine how Microsoft’s knowledge transformation journey, finest practices, and CDMC partnership Whitepaper on the CDO Seat on the Cloud Table.
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