Software as a service (SaaS) services featuring software for use in data governance and management to enable users to integrate, manage, classify, label and search for data and electronic information across a network and across multiple platforms and systems; software as a service (SaaS) services featuring software for designing, creating, constructing and managing data maps to facilitate use of and access to data and electronic information across a network and across multiple platforms and systems; software as a service (SaaS) services featuring software for extracting and generating accurate and up-to-date data lineage across a network and across multiple platforms and systems; and software as a service (SaaS) services featuring software for management, retention, preservation, classification, access, control, compliance management and disposition of metadata