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2019 Highlights in Metadata Management

Octopai

As 2019 comes to a close, we think it’s the perfect time to review trends in metadata management as well as look at some of Octopai’s own highlights. What a flashback to see all that we’ve achieved this year in data governance, risk and compliance, data analysis and reporting. A Few Key BI Takeaways from 2019.

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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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Data Governance Makes Data Security Less Scary

erwin

In fact, we’ve seen some frightening ones play out already: Google’s record GDPR fine – France’s data privacy enforcement agency hit the tech giant with a $57 million penalty in early 2019 – more than 80 times the steepest fine the U.K.’s So being prepared means you can minimize your risk exposure and the damage to your reputation.

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

erwin

However, more than 50 percent say they have deployed metadata management, data analytics, and data quality solutions. erwin Named a Leader in Gartner 2019 Metadata Management Magic Quadrant. And close to 50 percent have deployed data catalogs and business glossaries. Most have only data governance operations.

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Why Data Governance Is Crucial for All Enterprise-Level Businesses

Cloudera

In 2019, the U.K.’s Data analytics and machine learning can become a business and a compliance risk if data security, governance, lineage, metadata management, and automation are not holistically applied across the entire data lifecycle and all environments. Everyone Fails Data Governance. From Bad to Worse.

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What Does Data Archiving Bring To Healthcare Intelligence?

Smart Data Collective

Many healthcare organizations also retain data for future research into care improvements or related projects, in which case it’s critical to ensure that when you decommission a data system , you also export and appropriately store any associated metadata. That’s a problem since old software quickly becomes a security risk.