Modern document management systems offer professionals a host of unique features and have truly begun to revolutionize the office environment.
Working with Metadata Management Frameworks
Metadata Management will grow into 2021 and beyond. According to a DATAVERSITY® Trends in Data Management Report, 84 percent of business respondents had a Metadata Management initiative in place or had plans for one. MarketWatch, a consulting firm, expects massive growth by 2026. How much success a company will have with Metadata Management will depend […]
Why Enterprise Data Planning Is Crucial for Faster Outcomes
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Are you planning on strategically using data to improve the efficiencies of your value chains? You are not alone and every organization in this league is looking at ways to augment these customer journeys. This can happen with artificial intelligence models that can make a journey interesting for […]
How a Data Catalog Enables Remote Collaboration
Click to learn more about author Emily Washington. Forty-two percent of the U.S. workforce is working from home full-time, according to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research — almost twice as many employees as this time last year. As companies reimagine a post-pandemic workforce, many are either abandoning their office spaces completely or embracing […]
A Brief History of Metadata
Metadata is a small amount of data designed to provide reference information about other data. For example, in 280 BC, the Great Library of Alexandria attached a small, dangling tag to the end of each individual scroll. The tags gave the title, subject, and author, allowing library users to assume the content, without having to […]
Data Architecture with Data Governance: A Proactive Approach
“Data Architecture is the physical implementation of the Business Strategy,” said Nigel Turner, Principal Consultant in E.M.E.A. at Global Data Strategy, speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online Conference. “It’s a key part of the whole continuum that you need to build within an organization to manage data effectively,” and Data Governance forms an […]
An Introduction to Metadata Management
Click to learn more about author Sowmya Tejha Kandregula. According to IDC, the size of the global datasphere is projected to reach 163 ZB by 2025, leading to the disparate data sources in legacy systems, new system deployments, and the creation of data lakes and data warehouses. Most organizations do not utilize the entirety of the data […]
Improving Data Pipelines with DataOps
Click to learn more about author Joe DosSantos. It was only a few years ago that BI and data experts excitedly claimed that petabytes of unstructured data could be brought under control with data pipelines and orderly, efficient data warehouses. But as big data continued to grow and the amount of stored information increased every […]
The “Actionable” Metadata
Click to learn more about author Anand Govindarajan. During the days of building data warehouses and BI systems, all that was captured, as truly “metadata,” was the data about creation/access of the data structures for audits, data about the execution of data loads, and so on. Primarily, whatever supported the “operations” of the data warehouse. […]
Data Quality Then and Now: What’s the Difference?
Click to learn more about author Emily Washington. Each year we undergo significant transformation in the information technology (IT) industry. However, 2020 is a year for the history books. Evolution in IT usually happens organically. As priorities change, so do technologies, processes, people, and techniques. When the term “big data” became mainstream last decade, IT […]