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Metadata is Like Packaging: Seeing Beyond the Library Card Metaphor

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way we package information has a lot to do with metadata. The somewhat conventional metaphor about metadata is the one of the library card. This metaphor has it that books are the data and library cards are the metadata helping us find what we need, want to know more about or even what we don’t know we were looking for.

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Why metadata management software is essential and what to expect

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Metadata management is essential to becoming a data-driven organization and reaping the competitive advantage your organization’s data offers. Gartner refers to metadata as data that is used to enhance the usability, comprehension, utility or functionality of any other data point. How the data has changed.

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Driving the Next Wave of Data Lineage Visualization with Automation

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This visual aspect is the key to the usefulness of any large and complex data landscape. The key to data lineage is metadata: – Physical location of the data. Learn more about automated data lineage in our white paper “Metadata Blending: Automating Data Lineage Views”. How Data Lineage Works.

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Data Intelligence and Its Role in Combating Covid-19

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Unraveling Data Complexities with Metadata Management. Metadata management will be critical to the process for cataloging data via automated scans. Essentially, metadata management is the administration of data that describes other data, with an emphasis on associations and lineage. Data lineage to support impact analysis.

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BI Cubed: Data Lineage on OLAP Anyone?

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How much time has your BI team wasted on finding data and creating metadata management reports? BI groups spend more than 50% of their time and effort manually searching for metadata. The cube, supported by automated metadata management , allows you to report on cross-sections of the data and its history and context within minutes.

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Why You Need End-to-End Data Lineage

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As I mentioned above, the three Vs of data and the integration of systems makes it difficult to understand the resulting data web much less capture a simple visual of that flow. Metadata management and manual mapping are a challenge to most organizations. Who are the data owners? What are the transformation rules?

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Measure Twice, Cut Once: How the Right Data Modeling Tool Drives Business Value

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Ability to visualize business and technical database structures through an integrated, graphical model. The chosen data modeling tool should be able to read the technical formats of each of these platforms and translate them into highly graphical models rich in metadata. Evaluating a Data Modeling Tool – Key Features.