Enforcement Profiles
Enforcement Profiles document information about the purpose, the implementation process, and the technology behind rule enforcement. With this information, business and technical users can easily understand how rules are enforced and the impact that rules have on the business. The profiles accommodate different types of rules: rules that are automatically enforced via enforcement technology (for example, the DSP®), rules that are enforced via manual tasks, and rules that are not enforced but require documentation. Enforcement Profiles contain the following components to help users document relevant information about rule enforcement:
- Opportunities—Describe an intent of the rule. Each rule may have multiple enforcement opportunities.
- Methods—Determine how an opportunity and a technology work together to audit, execute and report on rule enforcement.
- Applications— The technology used to enforce rules; the enforcement engine.
The methods and applications used for each rule depend on the rule enforcement’s opportunity or purpose. For steps on how to add Enforcement Profiles for each opportunity, click the following links:
- Archiving—Documents rule enforcement as part of a data archival or a retention process.
- Data Integration—Documents rule enforcement as part of the process of combining data from different sources into a singular, unified view.
- Data Migration—Documents rule enforcement during transition to a new platform.
- Data Quality—Documents rule enforcement through monitoring and remediation.
- Master Data Management—Documents rule enforcement as it defines and manages an organization’s critical data.
- Mass Maintenance—Documents rule enforcement as part of the process of altering multiple master data entries at one time.
- System Enforcement—Documents rule enforcement as it happens within a system, like attributes in a relational database.
