Data Governance in the Big Data Era: A Scalable Framework for Effective Management and Regulatory Compliance

While big data enhances the capacity of organizations to make choices, the traditional data governance approaches are not productive enough to manage the explosion of volume, variety, and velocity of data. This inadequateness leads to loss of data integrity, inabilities to adhere to legal frameworks and poor use of available data. This study provides a solution by providing an easier way to apply data governance concepts using a framework that is elastic and scalable enough for today's data environment. In addition to this, study helps a firm maintain quality of data, compliance, and interactivity through the use of metadata strategies. This relatively new tool helps to manage data governance more effective and innovatively so that the organization can harness the business aspects within big data through the proper deployment of the data governance structure.