Governance and classification built for the NDMO era
Goava gives your Data Management Office an operating system for governance: classifications with automatic inheritance, a bilingual business glossary, domains and data products, clear ownership and stewardship — and KPI dashboards that turn policy into standing evidence.
Business glossary
One shared language for your data — in Arabic and English
Governance fails when "customer" means five different things across five departments. Goava's business glossary gives every term a single, governed definition — and because the interface is natively bilingual (Arabic ar-SA and English), your stewards can author, review, and approve terminology in the language your organization actually works in.
- Define business terms once and link them to tables, dashboards, pipelines, and APIs across the catalog.
- Route new terms and edits through tasks and approvals, so the glossary stays controlled as it grows.
- Assign an owner and stewards to every term — each definition has an accountable name behind it.
- Work in a natively bilingual interface: formal Arabic for your stewards, English for your engineers — the same governed content.
Classification & structure
Classifications that inherit, domains that delegate
Classification policy only matters if it reaches the data. In Goava, classifications and tags inherit automatically — apply a tag at the right level and it propagates to related assets, and even to the APIs that expose that data. Domains and data products then give your estate a structure your operating model can actually own.
- Build hierarchical classifications — sensitivity levels, PII categories — and apply them as tags with automatic inheritance.
- Tags flow between data and APIs: classify a table once, and the endpoints it powers carry that classification too.
- Organize assets into domains so each business unit governs what it owns — federated, not free-for-all.
- Publish curated, owned sets of assets as data products that consumers can find and trust.
Standing evidence
Compliance evidence you don't have to assemble
When an NDMO assessment or internal audit arrives, the question is rarely "do you have a policy?" — it is "can you prove it is applied?". Goava's KPI and adoption dashboards measure governance execution continuously, so your Data Management Office has standing evidence instead of a quarterly screenshot scramble.
- Ownership coverage: the share of assets with a named, accountable owner.
- Description coverage: how much of the estate is documented and understandable.
- Classification coverage: how far classification policy has actually been applied to the data.
- Trend these KPIs over time to show leadership and assessors measurable, sustained progress.
The governance toolkit, end to end
Six capabilities that turn governance from a document into a daily operating practice.
Classifications & tags
Hierarchical classifications with automatic inheritance across assets, lineage, and the APIs that expose your data.
Bilingual business glossary
Governed term definitions in formal Arabic and English, linked to assets across the entire catalog.
Domains
Federate the estate by business domain so accountability sits with the teams closest to the data.
Data products
Package curated assets into discoverable, owned data products that consumers can rely on.
Ownership & stewardship
Assign owners and stewards at every level, with tasks, approvals, and activity feeds keeping the work moving.
KPI & adoption dashboards
Ownership, description, and classification coverage — standing evidence of governance execution.
See how this maps to the NDMO framework
Explore where Goava's governance capabilities support ownership, classification, glossary, quality, lineage, and evidence workflows.