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What Is a Metadata Management Tool?

Octopai

What enables you to use all those gigabytes and terabytes of data you’ve collected? Metadata is the pertinent, practical details about data assets: what they are, what to use them for, what to use them with. Without metadata, data is just a heap of numbers and letters collecting dust. Where does metadata come from?

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Salesforce debuts Zero Copy Partner Network to ease data integration

CIO Business Intelligence

Currently, a handful of startups offer “reverse” extract, transform, and load (ETL), in which they copy data from a customer’s data warehouse or data platform back into systems of engagement where business users do their work. It works in Salesforce just like any other native Salesforce data,” Carlson said.

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The Benefits of a Knowledge Graph-based Metadata Hub

Ontotext

But whatever their business goals, in order to turn their invisible data into a valuable asset, they need to understand what they have and to be able to efficiently find what they need. Enter metadata. It enables us to make sense of our data because it tells us what it is and how best to use it. Knowledge (metadata) layer.

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Do I Need a Data Catalog?

erwin

Given the value this sort of data-driven insight can provide, the reason organizations need a data catalog should become clearer. It’s no surprise that most organizations’ data is often fragmented and siloed across numerous sources (e.g., Three Types of Metadata in a Data Catalog. Technical Metadata.

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Unlock data across organizational boundaries using Amazon DataZone – now generally available 

AWS Big Data

Business-driven domains – A DataZone domain represents the distinct boundary of a line of business (LOB) or a business area within an organization that can manage its own data, including its own data assets, its own definition of data or business terminology, and may have its own governing standards.

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How Automated Metadata Discovery Can Save You Money

Octopai

There are two primary reasons for this: Manual data discovery and manual data lineage. Money Loser #1: Manual Data Discovery. Metadata is at the heart of every report, dashboard, data warehouse, visualization, and anything else the BI team produces. Money Loser #2: Manual Data Lineage.

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SAP Datasphere review: turning data from a technical problem to a business data product.

Jen Stirrup

Organisations are looking at ways of simplifying data; for example, through simple rebranding efforts to disguise the complexity. However, SAP Datasphere goes much deeper deeper than a simple rebranding; it is the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.

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