Focus provide services and support to clients to set up a data stewardship capability and build the organisation awareness of the roles, responsibilities and benefits of stewardship. Focus introduce the objectives of stewardship through an information governance program that involves the Data Stewardship Charter, the data quality triage system and the mature architecture that lets data stewards fulfill their responsibilities.
Focus advocates the use of InfoSphere Business Glossary to link content author stewards to business concepts and terms. Stewards become the point of contact for business concepts and provide maintenance of business metadata – such as definitions, examples, links and usage – and support and advice on how to use data and information for reporting and analytics.
Focus advocates the use of Information Analyzer and InfoSphere Exception Manager to provide a data quality audit and data quality exception handling capability. Data Stewards use Information Analyzer ruleset to create and manage data quality audit rules that are executed against database data. The Exception Manager is used to store and report on rows of data that fail data quality audits and track the actions and outcomes of data quality issues.