Data Governance: securely managing and sharing data end-to-end

Increasing data openness creates a major challenge. The more accessible data is, the more critical its governance and security becomes. How can we guarantee the reliability of information without slowing down sharing? How do you balance openness, security and agility?

The answer lies in combining expertise from different areas to first guarantee data quality at source and then make it immediately and widely accessible across the organization. Through their close partnership, data management leaders Huwise and Precisely offer an integrated solution to address this challenge, enabling Chief Data Officers (CDOs) to put in place an optimized governance strategy. Our blog explains more.

Recognized as a global leader in data integrity, Precisely supports more than 12,000 organizations in more than 100 countries, including 95 of the Fortune 100 who trust its software, data, and data strategy consulting to power AI, automation, and analytics initiatives.

The Precisely Data Integrity Suite uniquely combines seven interoperable services – Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Governance, Data Observability, Geo Addressing, Spatial Analytics, and Data Enrichment – to deliver data that is accurate, consistent, and contextualized. At the heart of this suite is the Data Integrity Foundation, which seamlessly connects and accelerates every service – enabling organizations to securely discover and access their data, easily catalog and understand it, and intelligently design and automate processes for continuous improvement.

This holistic vision enables organizations to overcome a growing challenge – in an environment where data sources are multiplying, governance and reliability can no longer be left to chance. They must be built, maintained, and continuously verified to power AI, automation, and analytics initiatives.

In a nutshell, Precisely understands that for businesses, effective decision-making depends above all on one key factor — trust in data. All its expertise is aimed at guaranteeing data reliability, so that everyone can confidently take actions based on high-quality, accurate data.

At the other end of the data value chain, Huwise is transforming the way organizations share their data products and maximize their consumption. As a specialist in data product marketplaces, its SaaS solution now powers more than 3,000 platforms in 25 countries.

The platform’s intuitive, self-service user experience is based on an e-commerce marketplace look and feel. It includes a unified data catalog, intuitive AI-based search, detailed product descriptions, and open APIs. This marketplace-style approach makes data immediately accessible to employees without technical skills, removing the traditional barriers between producers and consumers of information.

Huwise delivers value through its ability to create centralized, secure, self-service spaces where every user, whatever their role or technical skills, can quickly discover, understand, and consume data resources that are relevant to them. This approach underpins the fact that the value data brings is about much more than its quality. In fact, it is driven by the ability to discover, understand and reuse it at scale.

Combining these two approaches enables effective, modern, data governance. Precisely builds trust at the source, ensures consistency, and detects anomalies. Huwise then shares this trusted data through intuitive experiences that preserve its context and help drive consumption.

This partnership is built on a logical, perfectly layered architecture. The first, fundamental layer ensures structural integrity, covering data validation, standardization, and enrichment based on explicit business rules.

The data product marketplace then acts as the sharing layer, transforming data integrity into data accessibility. Datasets become well-documented products governed by data contracts, APIs become standardized, and visualizations can be automatically generated through intelligent search boosted by AI.

The benefit is immediate. Organizations maintain data quality while accelerating consumption. Data teams remain in control, while business teams gain independence. There’s no need to choose between governance and rigor and speed and accessibility.

This balance of integrity and accessibility generates other measurable, immediate benefits. Organizations that automate their governance are now seeing their day-to-day operations significantly transformed in areas including:

• Process acceleration with agentic AI: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integrated into Huwise’s data product marketplace allows organizations to power their own AI agents, saving time, improving productivity, and getting more value from their data. Agents can automatically search and act on data, create visualizations, or drive new processes and workflows, with 100% traceability and transparency into the decisions AI makes.

• Greatly reduced risk: Automating quality control eliminates inconsistencies between departments and limits repeated manual human intervention. Upstream access rights are automatically applied, reducing the risk of errors and ensuring compliance with internal policies.

• Improved user experience: Business users have direct access to relevant metrics without relying on IT teams for each request. This autonomy through self-service transforms their relationship with data – they can move from one-off data consumption to ongoing data use, with the use of information embedded in their working lives.

Essentially, the more seamlessly that reliable data circulates, the more likely it is that teams will naturally become data-driven.

To strengthen this drive for greater value, better governance and increased efficiency, Precisely and Huwise have formed a strategic technology partnership. Through this integration, joint clients can now seamlessly deliver accurate, consistent, and contextual data to the entire business, increasing trust and confidence in the data consumed by humans and AI while automating and ensuring robust data quality and governance.

This collaboration is a direct response to a growing demand from organizations that want to ensure both quality and agility when it comes to data management. The result is improved accessibility, faster adoption, and a frictionless experience that supports enterprise-wide compliance and data-sharing needs.

The partnership is deepening through the development of native integrations between the Data Integrity Suite and Huwise’s data product marketplace solution. By combining Precisely’s expertise in data integrity with Huwise’s ability to create exceptional user experiences, the partnership enables organizations to deploy end-to-end data chains where quality, governance, and accessibility come together naturally, without any compromises.

“At Precisely, we’re committed to helping businesses make more confident decisions powered by trusted data. Our partnership with Huwise further extends that commitment by making it even easier for joint customers to discover and consume data that can be trusted with context from across the enterprise. Together, we’re helping organizations to unlock the full value of their data for powerful AI, automation, and analytics initiatives,” said Jim McGonagle, SVP – Global Channel and Partner Sales at Precisely.

“Our customers’ modernization efforts are as diverse as the environments they’re transforming. We help customers unify their data and technology landscapes through deep integrations with strategic partners, including Huwise and other market leaders such as AWS, Microsoft, Snowflake, and Databricks – ensuring agility and innovation without sacrificing control, compliance, or data integrity,” added Chris Hall, Chief Product Officer at Precisely.

Franck Carassus, CSO and co-founder of Huwise, fully endorses this vision: “Huwise and Precisely share a common goal – building trusted data and making it available securely to all. Our joint customers are already seeing the benefits of having all their data products in one place – secure, searchable, and ready to use. Together with Precisely, we’re enabling them to support greater data sharing and consumption by business users, unlocking new opportunities for AI and analytics, and maximizing ROI on their data investments.”

Huwise and Precisely have already been jointly deployed at two major energy players in Europe. Together, this partnership brings in a new era where data governance no longer slows down innovation but actually drives and increases it.