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7 Benefits of Metadata Management

erwin

Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. What Is Metadata? Analyst firm Gartner defines metadata as “information that describes various facets of an information asset to improve its usability throughout its life cycle. It is metadata that turns information into an asset.”.

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Maximize your data dividends with active metadata

IBM Big Data Hub

Metadata management performs a critical role within the modern data management stack. However, as data volumes continue to grow, manual approaches to metadata management are sub-optimal and can result in missed opportunities. This puts into perspective the role of active metadata management. What is Active Metadata management?

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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

erwin

When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Creating and sustaining an enterprise-wide view of and easy access to underlying metadata is also a tall order. Metadata Management Takes Time. Finding metadata, “the data about the data,” isn’t easy.

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How to Manage Risk with Modern Data Architectures

Cloudera

To ensure the stability of the US financial system, the implementation of advanced liquidity risk models and stress testing using (MI/AI) could potentially serve as a protective measure. To improve the way they model and manage risk, institutions must modernize their data management and data governance practices.

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How A Data Catalog Enhances Data Risk Management

Alation

Alation joined with Ortecha , a data management consultancy, to publish a white paper providing insights and guidance to stakeholders and decision-makers charged with implementing or modernising data risk management functions. The Increasing Focus On Data Risk Management. Download the complete white paper now.

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Very Meta … Unlocking Data’s Potential with Metadata Management Solutions

erwin

While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata , or the data about the data. And to truly understand it , you need to be able to create and sustain an enterprise-wide view of and easy access to underlying metadata. This isn’t an easy task.

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.