Data Governance is the organizational function responsible for establishing control over the information asset. Business and IT representatives work together to establish enterprise policies and guidelines for data definition, access, protection, and regulatory compliance. As part of data governance, Data Stewards take responsibility for management of a specific data domain (e.g., Subject Area). Data Stewards work with SME’s from IT to determine business information requirements, plan, initiate, and monitor activities to bring the data in their domain into alignment with business requirements and objectives established by Data Governance.