Data has proven itself a strategic asset for digital transformations and is becoming key to everything from improved marketing to exploring new business models. In this expanded role, data governance (DG) must also evolve and actively engage business executives. Enterprise architecture (EA) professionals can start here with Forrester's 33-criteria evaluation of data governance stewardship applications. We identified seven providers that support this new view of data governance — BackOffice Associates, Collibra, Data3Sixty, Datum, Diaku, Global Data Excellence, and IBM — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.