Unified Data Model at Microsoft
Unified Data Model standardizes metadata and enhances data discoverability.
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Scalable Data Governance & Compliance with UDM
Why Data Governance Matters In today’s data-driven world, governance isn’t just a technical requirement—it’s foundational to successful business operations. Good governance ensures data is not only accurate and compliant but also discoverable and usable at scale. At the heart of this approach lies robust, high-quality metadata, which transforms raw data into valuable, reusable information assets. Without well-defined context and clear naming standards, data quickly becomes fragmented, duplicated, and ultimately underutilized. The Unified Data Model (UDM) is designed to address these challenges directly by embed...
Validations and Correctness: How UDM enables Devs to build for Data Quality, Uptime, and Velocity
Introduction Ensuring data correctness and integrity is crucial in any data-driven system. Poor data quality can lead to incorrect insights, disrupted business processes, and failed pipelines. The Unified Data Model (UDM) enforces robust validation rules to maintain high data quality, ensuring consistency across all assets. In this post, we’ll explore how UDM safeguards against missing or incorrect data, the role of schema enforcement and type validation, how data lineage tracking helps troubleshoot failures, and real-world scenarios where UDM prevents costly issues and speeds up end-to-end delivery time. How U...