Governance and classification built for the NDMO era
Goava gives your Data Management Office an operating system for governance: classifications and tags on datasets, columns and API endpoints, a business glossary with Arabic and English names, domains and data products, clear ownership — and KPI targets 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 reviewers to every term — each definition has an accountable name behind it.
- Record each term's Arabic and English names, and work in a natively bilingual interface: Arabic for your business teams, English for your engineers.
Classification & structure
Classifications that reach the data, domains that delegate
Classification policy only matters if it reaches the data. In Goava, you apply classifications and tags to datasets, columns and API endpoints, and glossary terms carry their linked tags to every asset they are applied to. 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.
- Tag API endpoints with the same classifications as your tables, so data and API layers share one sensitivity vocabulary.
- 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 tracks ownership and description coverage against KPI targets and charts tier and PII coverage daily, 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.
- Tier and PII coverage: daily charts of how far tiering and personal-data tagging have reached.
- Set KPI targets for ownership and description, and show leadership and assessors your progress against them.
The governance toolkit, end to end
Six capabilities that turn governance from a document into a daily operating practice.
See how this maps to the NDMO framework
Explore where Goava's governance capabilities support ownership, classification, glossary, quality, lineage, and evidence workflows.