Overview of IBM Stewardship Center

IBM® Stewardship Center leverages the capabilities of IBM Business Process Manager to help bridge the gap between business and IT. IBM Stewardship Center provides data stewards, data steward managers, and data source owners with a central browser-based interface where they can collaborate on and manage data quality issues.

As data stewards become increasingly responsible for improving the value of their data assets, they need capabilities to help them manage these new requirements. Data stewards are being asked to handle a diverse set of scenarios, including:

Collaboration across multiple lines of business to build information policies that support regulatory requirements
Assessment of the cost of poor data quality and management of data quality issues
Engagement of subject matter experts through business processes to review and approve corporate glossary changes

Data stewards and data steward managers use the tools and processes provided by IBM Stewardship Center in combination with the capabilities provided by IBM Business Process Manager to tackle these governance challenges.

IBM Stewardship Center includes these components:

The Data Quality Exception sample process application, which is a sample workflow for managing remediation-related tasks.
The Stewardship Center Application Toolkit, which can be used to expand the capabilities of the Data Quality Exception sample process application or to create your own custom workflows.
The IIS IGC Examples sample processes, which can be used to notify users by email when asset activities and changes in workflow status occur in the catalog of IBM InfoSphere® Information Governance Catalog.

With each subscription that you create in Subscription Manager, you can send a simple email notification by using Subscription Manager. Alternatively, you can send a more informative email notification and initiate collaborative workflow actions by using IBM BPM.