Differences between Data Flows, Lineage, Provenance and Traceability

Differences between Data Flows, Lineage, Provenance and Traceability

[Full article published here due to lack of table functionality in LinkedIn ]

So a question that keeps raising its head in different guises “I've been told I'm on the hook for lineage, what should we do?”.  Now strictly the question has normally found its way into Technology’s hands before someone has an opinion of which tool would solve this - aka the “How”. Unfortunately the “What” isn't really known, and worse yet the “Why” often isn't clearly articulated outside of “because the regulator needs it”.

So for this article I wanted to broach a perspective on how all of these parts tie together. Moreover by the end of the article we should have some working definitions that can be leveraged to provide a clear language of data movement concepts that can be enabled to help answer the “Why”.

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So the questions I would like to pose to are:

  1. Are there any major missing scenarios that would be helpful to add to support understanding of Lineage vs Provenance vs Flows?
  2. Do the terms, scenarios and proposed definitions help clarify?

If you have any comments please use this post on LinkedIn for the comments.

⚡ Rostislav Rabotnik

Senior Principal Data Architect specializing in Enterprise Data Modeling and Architecture at Atlassian

3y

Could you clarify what "regulatory lineage" means?

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Ruta S.

Product at Salesforce | Life Sciences Cloud

5y

How does Data Mapping come into play here, if at all?

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Rob Ng

FinTech Leader | Software and Product Engineering | AWS Certified | Management Consulting

7y

Well done article. Too often industry terminology and meaning gets garbled and interchanged when used in practice especially is high visibility subjects. Good to checkpoint every now and then - thanks for sharing!

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Great article. I sense that many people think BCBS requirements stop at Regulatory Lineage. 'Alignment of meaning' is, I think, a bigger challenge .... and a bigger prize!

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