Why does governance so often slow everything down?
Because it is bolted on as policy instead of built in as engineering. Done properly, governance is what makes data — and the AI fed by it — trustworthy at speed: findable, understood, quality-assured and traceable end to end.
The questions we ask before anything is built
Governance earns its keep when it answers questions the business is already asking.
- Can anyone in your organisation find the data they need — and know whether to trust it?
- When a number is challenged in a board meeting, how long does it take to trace it to source?
- Which data feeds your AI — and who is accountable for its quality?
- What would a regulator, an auditor or a due-diligence team find tomorrow?
- Is your governance tooling serving the operating model, or substituting for one?
Capabilities, stated as outcomes
Catalogue implementation
Unity Catalog, Microsoft Purview and Collibra — implemented, migrated between, or exited from, with two decades of practitioner depth across all three.
Lineage & metadata
End-to-end lineage from source to dashboard to model — the traceability that turns 'we think' into 'we know'.
Data quality frameworks
Quality rules, monitoring and remediation workflows engineered into pipelines — not documented beside them.
Stewardship operating models
Roles, accountabilities and glossaries that fit how your organisation actually works — governance people follow because it helps them.
Depth that comes from the inside
Datuza's governance heritage includes Collibra Ranger-certified expertise and years spent inside Collibra's own enterprise architecture practice — advising global enterprises on implementation, operating models and adoption. That translates into an unusually complete Collibra service line:
Implementation & migration
End-to-end Collibra DG and DQ implementation — and the awkward middle years: platform re-pointing when the estate underneath moves, including warehouse and tenant migrations that force metadata, lineage and DQ rework.
Platform health & stabilisation
Remediation of struggling instances: permissions-model restructuring, Data Quality engine and worker optimisation, and workflow assurance reviews that confirm your governance processes actually do what everyone assumes they do.
Adoption acceleration
The gap between a licensed platform and a governed organisation is adoption. We design steward onboarding programmes that scale from a handful of users to the whole organisation — our practitioners have enabled hundreds of business users across global programmes.
Managed operations
Run-and-operate support that keeps the platform healthy between projects — administration, workflow maintenance, DQ operations and continuous improvement, sized for organisations without a large internal team.
Coexistence & exit
Honest, tool-agnostic counsel on the Collibra–Purview–Unity Catalog landscape: coexistence architectures, migration strategies, and — where the evidence points that way — a well-governed exit. We advise on what serves you, not what renews a licence.
Three shapes of engagement
Governance engagements range from a focused catalogue implementation to designing the full operating model.
Advisory
Senior architecture counsel by the day — reviews, decision support, and a second pair of eyes on the choices that are hard to reverse.
Delivery
A small senior squad that designs and builds — architecture, engineering and knowledge transfer as one engagement, with confirmation gates at every phase.
Review & rescue
An independent, evidence-based assessment of an existing platform or stalled initiative, with a costed path forward.