Built for entities standing up Data Management Offices
The NDMO framework expects every government entity to operate a Data Management Office — with defined domains, named owners, classified data, and measurable progress. Goava gives your DMO the operating platform to deliver it: a bilingual data catalog and governance suite, deployed entirely inside Saudi Arabia.
DMO Operating Model
Run your Data Management Office on a platform, not spreadsheets
The NDMO framework expects entities to define data domains, assign owners and stewards, and govern data through documented processes. Goava turns that operating model into day-to-day workflows your teams actually use — in Arabic and English.
- Define data domains and data products that mirror your entity's organisational structure
- Assign ownership and stewardship to named roles, with coverage tracked automatically
- Route classification, glossary, and change requests through built-in tasks and approvals
- Build a bilingual business glossary your whole entity can search and reference
Reporting Readiness
Enter reporting cycles with evidence, not estimates
Government data programs need measurable evidence across ownership, documentation, classification, quality, and remediation. Goava's KPI and adoption dashboards track these operating metrics so reporting is supported by current records rather than manual surveys.
- Ownership coverage: which datasets have a named owner and steward, and which do not
- Description coverage: how much of your data estate is actually documented
- Classification coverage: what has been classified, and what still awaits review
- Data quality tests, SLAs, and incident history as supporting evidence for your reports
Why government entities choose Goava
Designed for the realities of public-sector data governance in Saudi Arabia.
Deployed inside your perimeter
Self-hosted on-premises or in cloud environments inside Saudi Arabia. Your metadata stays within your security boundary — nothing leaves the Kingdom.
Bilingual Arabic and English experience
Arabic and English interface support across catalog, glossary, stewardship, and business-user workflows.
Governance-aligned capabilities
Classification with inheritance, lineage, a business glossary, ownership, and data quality controls that support core data management requirements.
Self-hosted control
You run the platform on your own infrastructure, with RBAC, SSO (OIDC, SAML 2.0, LDAP), and audit-friendly operations under your control.
Frequently asked questions
Can Goava be deployed on-premises?
Yes. Goava is self-hosted: deploy it on-premises in your own data centre or in a cloud environment inside Saudi Arabia. Either way, the platform and its metadata remain within your perimeter, with RBAC, SSO (OIDC, SAML 2.0, LDAP), and audit-friendly operations.
Does Goava support Arabic?
Yes — natively. The interface ships bilingual, with a full Arabic (ar-SA) locale alongside English. Glossary terms, descriptions, announcements, and stewardship workflows can all be authored in Arabic, so adoption is not limited to English-speaking teams.
How does Goava map to the NDMO framework?
Goava supports core data management practices such as classification, lineage, glossary management, ownership, data quality, and KPI dashboards. The detailed mapping on /solutions/ndmo-compliance should be reviewed against the official source register before publication or assessment use.
Ready to stand up your Data Management Office?
Talk to our team about your entity's NDMO journey and see Goava running in your own environment — or start with the control-by-control NDMO mapping.