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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. Hold on tight!

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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? What is metadata management?

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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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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. Download the complete white paper now. Or, read on for a brief summary.

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Insights from Gartner Data & Analytics Summit Orlando 2023

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I’m talking about not just Walt Disney World, but also this year’s Gartner Data & Analytics Summit , which took place last month in Orlando at the landmark resort. The active metadata helix Indeed, automation was on everyone’s minds. It’s the place where dreams come true. We couldn’t agree more.

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Benefits of Metadata Management Automation in the Insurance Industry

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– All types of insurance companies are leveraging data analytics to detect and prosecute fraud. Insurance Metadata Management. The keys to proper insurance data managemen t are data governance and metadata management. Data Governance and Metadata Management for the Insurance Industry.

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Build or Buy an Enterprise Data Catalog: Top 6 Considerations

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Gone are the days when static metadata repositories and manual curation were enough (if they ever really were). In a recent report*, Gartner analysts, Ehtisham Zaidi and Guido De Simoni, call augmented data catalogs an “enterprise must-have” for data and analytics leaders. Download White Paper. Millions of datasets.