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What Is a Metadata Management Tool?

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What enables you to use all those gigabytes and terabytes of data you’ve collected? Metadata is the pertinent, practical details about data assets: what they are, what to use them for, what to use them with. Without metadata, data is just a heap of numbers and letters collecting dust. Where does metadata come from?

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Metadata Management Best Practices: How to Plan Your Metadata Management Program

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Metadata has been defined as the who, what, where, when, why, and how of data. Without the context given by metadata, data is just a bunch of numbers and letters. But going on a rampage to define, categorize, and otherwise metadata-ize your data doesn’t necessarily give you the key to the value in your data.

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Using Strategic Data Governance to Manage GDPR/CCPA Complexity

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In light of recent, high-profile data breaches, it’s past-time we re-examined strategic data governance and its role in managing regulatory requirements. for alleged violations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Five Steps to GDPR/CCPA Compliance. How erwin Can Help.

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What is Metadata Management?

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Modern data processing depends on metadata management to power enhanced business intelligence. Metadata is of course the information about the data, and the process of managing it is mysterious to those not trained in advanced BI. In this article, you will learn: What does metadata management do?

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Three’s Company Too: Metadata, Data and Text Analysis

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Metadata used to be a secret shared between system programmers and the data. Metadata described the data in terms of cardinality, data types such as strings vs integers, and primary or foreign key relationships. Inevitably, the information that could and needed to be expressed by metadata increased in complexity.

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3 Reasons You Should Be Managing Metadata on the Cloud – Especially During a Pandemic

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As you may have experienced, one of the many impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is that on-premises metadata management may no longer be a feasible way to connect BI teams. Further, although key stakeholders may be physically away from the workplace, they still need to access metadata information to produce reports.

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Benefits of Metadata Management Automation in the Insurance Industry

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. – Property insurers are using troves of geographical, geological, climate, and other data to assess all kinds of hazard risks. – All types of insurance companies are leveraging data analytics to detect and prosecute fraud. Insurance Metadata Management. Both of these two keys deal with metadata.