Earning Criteria

• Commitment to Data Excellence Program. Must submit Gold Member Badge application naming Certified Partner.
• Training: Target audience to be identified for DCAM training & certification (key staff in Data Management orgs, domain leaders, data stewards, IT program managers). Achievement - Greater than 5 or 15% of the target audience DCAM trained & certified. Target audience to be identified for general data management training (literacy, ethics, steward, etc.). Achievement - 15% of target general data management training.
• Member & Certified Partner implement improvement plan including training target audiences. Achievement - member meets or exceeds requisite Gold level sub-capability scores on DCAM components 1-7.
• All Data Excellence Program Organizations are required to have at least one mid-year checkpoint meeting with a Certified Partner to review progress.
• All Data Excellence Program Participants must submit their periodic DCAM assessment scores to the EDM Council. Anonymized scores will become part of the Global Benchmark Repository.
• All Data Excellence Program Participants must be EDM Council members in good standing.