For any company mature enough to have implemented any of these data governance rules or principles, these are the building blocks of the actual process. The criticality is such because we want the business to self-service. We can build data lakes or data warehouses using our data pipelines, but if nobody can actually use the data to be able to see what information they have available without going through IT sources, that defeats the whole purpose of doing this additional work. It is a data platform that allows any business process to come in and be self-service, building their own processes without a lot of IT dependencies. There is a data science function where a lot of critical operational reporting can be done. Users leverage this tool to be able to discover what information is available, and it's very heavily used.

The Business User Portal or data catalog dashboard does a pretty good job providing a single view of all of the key attributes needed to manage our data landscape.