Data is moving faster than ever – and insights have to keep up. But as governance needs to grow, so does the complexity of granting data access. Every request might require input from data owners, stewards, security, governance, or legal teams — and when those approvals are centralized through IT, access can grind to a halt.
Immuta’s new Multi-Approver Workflow changes that. It provides a flexible, transparent framework that allows multiple stakeholders to review and approve access requests in parallel. Once all required approvals are in, data is automatically provisioned — eliminating IT bottlenecks and accelerating secure, compliant data access.
Legacy data provisioning processes – like ticket-based systems – were built for simple data ecosystems with limited users and limited access needs. Data requests funneled through a single gatekeeper, who often had the institutional knowledge to handle requests efficiently – and when in doubt, they knew who to ask. That world is quickly becoming antiquated.
Today’s ecosystems are far more complex, with hundreds or thousands more users – including AI agents. Their access requests are growing exponentially, at a rate that a single gatekeeper simply can’t manage without major delays or risks.
With this volume of requests, centralized approvers often lack the context necessary to make an informed decision. You need a system that allows the right people — across functions and departments — to make access decisions quickly and confidently.
That’s the vision behind Immuta’s Multi-Approver Workflow.
It enables you to decentralize decision making while ensuring that every approval is still governed, consistent, and fully auditable. Using metadata about the requester, approver(s), and the data itself, Immuta dynamically determines who needs to be involved in the approval process.
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By making approval chains metadata-aware, Immuta enables organizations to establish comprehensive, conceptual workflows that scale easily — without relying on hard-coded lists, manual routing, or slow onboarding.
The result: Faster decisions, decentralized control, and data access that moves at the speed of business.
With traditional data access models, IT often becomes the gatekeeper — responsible for collecting approvals, verifying compliance, and provisioning access. While well intentioned, that centralization slows progress and frustrates data consumers.
The Multi-Approver Workflow removes those bottlenecks. Approvals occur where they should — with the people closest to the data — and IT can focus on enabling infrastructure, rather than mediating requests.
It’s governance that scales — not governance that slows you down.
The Multi-Approver Workflow represents the next phase of Immuta’s mission: to make data provisioning faster, decentralized, and fully governed.
By leveraging metadata to dynamically identify the right approvers and automate provisioning once approvals are complete, you maintain control while empowering cross-functional teams to move at business speed.
It’s a simple, powerful idea: when the right people can make the right decisions quickly, innovation happens faster.
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