In an increasingly complex environment, where new information processes appear, the necessary business indicators are multiplying, measuring the impact of changes progressively increases the difficulty and there is no It's only true the administration of metadata is presented as the best solution.
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The metadata are data about the data that make it possible describe the content of a piece of data Y, at the same time, provide additional information about their conditions of:
– Quality.
– Life cycle.
– Availability.
Just through metadata it is feasible to understand the data and locate it. Complementing them with a business glossary, it is also feasible to explain them from a business point of view.
Good management metadata It benefits both IT and commercial areas by allowing:
- Improve decision making.
- Modernize the business.
- Increase efficiency.
- Reduce costs.
- Attract and retain customers.
- Improve governance.
- Adapt to regulatory requirements.
- Promote quality in collaboration initiatives with network partners.
- Increase business agility.
- Facilitate outsourcing in non-strategic functions of the company.
Issues that metadata management solves
From a technical point of view, the administration of metadata Properly developed reduces the risks of changes and updates, support costs to business users and those associated with development and testing. At the same time, help solve problems like:
- Lack of trust the data submitted by business users.
- The difficulty of relate business concepts to technical objectives.
- The lack of adequate tools to effectively support the development function.
- Excessive latencies in development work associated with the time required to locate technical targets and discard what already exists and with everything the impact analysis needs.
- The high costs of managing different systems in the data integration projects.
At the same time, increases the value of data for the business, which optimizes the benefits of data governance, reduces project risk, by allowing greater knowledge about the state of the data; and offers the necessary support in the acquisition of new platforms and systems or in mergers with other companies. Also from this perspective the management metadata It is useful for solving important questions, like those associated with:
- Difficulty understanding the meaning of the data or finding out its origin.
- Lack of clarity about data ownership.
- Lack of consistency around some trade terms.
- The difficulty of maintaining the reference data of the terms of business.
- The complexity involved in being able to understand the relationships between the company and the metadata technicians.
- Lack of agility to respond to business needs.
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