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How to Build a Successful Metadata Management Framework

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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.

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Five benefits of a data catalog

IBM Big Data Hub

It also serves as a governance tool to drive compliance with data privacy and industry regulations. In other words, a data catalog makes the use of data for insights generation far more efficient across the organization, while helping mitigate risks of regulatory violations. Meaningful business context.