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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

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When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Creating and sustaining an enterprise-wide view of and easy access to underlying metadata is also a tall order. Metadata Management Takes Time. Finding metadata, “the data about the data,” isn’t easy.

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7 Benefits of Metadata Management

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Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. What Is Metadata? Analyst firm Gartner defines metadata as “information that describes various facets of an information asset to improve its usability throughout its life cycle. It is metadata that turns information into an asset.”.

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RDF-Star: Metadata Complexity Simplified

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Relational databases benefit from decades of tweaks and optimizations to deliver performance. Not Every Graph is a Knowledge Graph: Schemas and Semantic Metadata Matter. This metadata should then be represented, along with its intricate relationships, in a connected knowledge graph model that can be understood by the business teams”.

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Four Use Cases Proving the Benefits of Metadata-Driven Automation

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Organization’s cannot hope to make the most out of a data-driven strategy, without at least some degree of metadata-driven automation. Metadata-Driven Automation in the BFSI Industry. Metadata-Driven Automation in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Metadata-Driven Automation in the Insurance Industry.

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Metadata Management, Data Governance and Automation

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With automation, data professionals can meet the above needs at a fraction of the cost of the traditional, manual way. To summarize, just some of the benefits of data automation are: • Centralized and standardized code management with all automation templates stored in a governed repository. Better quality code and minimized rework.

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What is a Data Mesh?

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This post (1 of 5) is the beginning of a series that explores the benefits and challenges of implementing a data mesh and reviews lessons learned from a pharmaceutical industry data mesh example. Benefits of a Domain. We’ll cover some of the potential challenges facing data mesh enterprise architectures in our next blog.

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

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Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.