Master Your Data Ecosystem
Plaid Govern is an open-source cloud-based metadata management tool modelled exclusively for higher education institutions.
Struggling with fragmented metadata, unclear data ownership, duplicated spreadsheets, definitions disagreements, and mystery data storage practices?
Bring clarity, enable governance, and create accountability with Plaid Govern, the modern metadata management tool.
Data Maturity: How Govern Helps You Get There
- Discover – Users can search for, find and track data from source to deliverable with a visual, modern interface
- Educate - Simplify onboarding new staff to dashboards, data sets, databases, with visual lineage, tags, and business glossaries
- Observe - Make audit and compliance easy with transparent data ownership and usage information across multiple systems centralized in one tool.
- Govern - Ingest metadata from many different tools, automate business glossaries, apply owner assignments, and enforce rules, you ensure your data strategy aligns with institutional policy and regulatory requirements.
Plaid Govern is built on the industry-leading DataHub framework, ensuring you benefit from global innovation without vendor lock-in, while maintaining an enterprise-grade security layer.
Why choose a managed service?
- Rapid ROI: With same-day deployment, get insights immediately.
- Seamless authentication: Full single sign-on and role-based access control that integrates with your existing auth services.
- Expert oversight: The Plaid team handles hosting, security patches and upgrades, so your team can focus on strategy, not server maintenance.
- Custom development: Plaid builds exclusive features and custom scripts designed specifically for higher education data models and tools.
The Plaid Difference
- Affordable: Unlike our competitors, we think you'll get more benefit from shared understanding than from complex metadata reports or workflows. By focusing on the high-impact functionality that IT and analytics teams actually use, we provide a cost-effective solution that avoids unnecessary features.
- Client-driven: Govern development is shaped entirely by client feedback. We build new features you actually need, and not for the sake of hitting a sales goal. Plus, with direct access to Plaid's co-founders, your challenges are heard directly by experts who understand your data and the higher ed context.
- Clean design: Govern has a clean and modern interface, with immediately understandable visual lineage, and user-friendly tools like a search box for quick results, and a sidebar with glossary terms and tags. The intuitive design makes it easy for new users to use the tool and grasp how data moves and transforms across systems.
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What about security and compliance?
- Only data about your data is brought in. We never ingest your actual records.
- Govern is hosted on AWS, so you choose the data centre region compliant in your jurisdiction.
- Govern's robust encryption and security protocols protect your metadata at rest and in transit
- Only data about your data is brought in. We never ingest your actual records.
- Govern is hosted on AWS, so you choose the data centre region compliant in your jurisdiction.
- Govern's robust encryption and security protocols protect your metadata at rest and in transit
Systems We Work With
Our technology expertise includes common student information systems, CRMS, modern cloud platforms, and numerous home-built systems.
