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Five benefits of a data catalog

IBM Big Data Hub

With a data catalog, Alex can discover data assets she may have never found otherwise. Meaningful business context. An enterprise data catalog automates the process of contextualizing data assets by using: Business metadata to describe an asset’s content and purpose. Protected and compliant data.

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How to Build a Successful Metadata Management Framework

Alation

This is where metadata, or the data about data, comes into play. Having a data catalog is the cornerstone of your data governance strategy, but what supports your data catalog? Your metadata management framework provides the underlying structure that makes your data accessible and manageable.