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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 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.

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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.

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From Chaos to Control with Data Intelligence

erwin

To manage not only risk but also to grow and compete effectively requires the ability to deal with both planned and unplanned change. This metadata is ingested into the data catalog, definitions are added within a business glossary, and the searchable repository enables users to understand how data is used and stored.

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Minimizing Supply Chain Disruptions with Advanced Analytics

Cloudera

Advanced analytics empower risk reduction . Advanced analytics and enterprise data are empowering several overarching initiatives in supply chain risk reduction – improved visibility and transparency into all aspects of the supply chain balanced with data governance and security. . Digital Transformation is not without Risk.

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What’s the Current State of Data Governance and Automation?

erwin

Digital transformation and data standards/uniformity round out the top five data governance drivers, with 37 and 36 percent, respectively. Constructing a Digital Transformation Strategy: How Data Drives Digital. erwin Named a Leader in Gartner 2019 Metadata Management Magic Quadrant.

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Doing Cloud Migration and Data Governance Right the First Time

erwin

And you can’t risk false starts or delayed ROI that reduces the confidence of the business and taint this transformational initiative. With all these diverse metadata sources, it is difficult to understand the complicated web they form much less get a simple visual flow of data lineage and impact analysis.