The document discusses Merck's data governance initiative to implement Hadoop and establish data governance policies and processes. It outlines their 90 day and 6 month roadmaps to set up a data lake, implement data cataloging and metadata management, and establish access controls and data lineage tracking to enable self-service analytics while ensuring data governance and security. Key components include Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, Ranger, Falcon, and metadata stored in the Hive metastore.