Click to learn more about author John Ottman. The goal of digital transformation remains the same as ever – to become more data-driven. We have learned how to gain a competitive advantage by capturing business events in data. Events are data snap-shots of complex activity sourced from the web, customer systems, ERP transactions, social media, […]
Demystifying Metadata Management
As advanced analytics becomes a prominent driver of revenue in the data-driven age, technologies are needed to help provide a context to data. Business leaders and the global Data Science community have realized that businesses need appropriate technology to comprehend the context of business data. In addition to Data Governance, the Data Management strategy that […]
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 Governance and Streaming Analytics
Data volumes are continuing to grow and the use of streaming analytics therefore is becoming even more widespread, so many companies are beginning to realize that existing Data Governance practices must also evolve to remain relevant. “More is being asked of an organization’s governance platform than ever before,” says industry insider Robert Chernesky, about the […]
Data Management and the Internet of Things
Billions of things with sensors surround people and their lives. These Internet of Things (IoT) interact with people, homes, factories, workplaces, cities, farms, and vehicles. Gartner predicts that by 2021, IoT technology will be in 95 percent of electronics for new product designs, from wearables to medical devices and beyond. IoT promises useful information, allowing […]
Metadata Management and Analytics: What is the Intersection?
Metadata Management implies a set of activities, which administer data for better usage and outcomes. Thus, this practice involves establishing stringent roles, responsibilities, policies, and processes to ensure that data-driven information is available, accessible, sharable, and maintainable across an organization for the best analysis and application of such information in daily business. In that sense, Metadata […]
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 […]
Managing Metadata: An Examination of Successful Approaches
“If Google can deliver results across the entire internet in seconds, why do I have so much trouble finding things in my organization?” asked Jonathan Adams, Research Director at Infogix, at the DATAVERSITY® DGVision Conference. In a presentation titled, “I Never Metadata I did Not Like” Adams outlined successful approaches to understanding and managing metadata […]
Enterprise Data Literacy: Understanding Data Management
To truly understand data-as-an-asset requires Enterprise Data Literacy, an organizational capability to take, analyze, and use data to remain secure and competitive. But achieving a high Enterprise Data Literacy can remain daunting when business and IT interact together. All too often in the middle of a project sprint, IT gets stuck on a minor problem, […]
Metadata Repository Essential Use Cases
“Even though we’re working with very sophisticated Data Science resources, we still hear over and over, ‘I don’t even know what data is available,’” said Susan Swanson, the Senior Manager of Data Modeling and Architecture at Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), an organization that offers regional health care coverage and services. Speaking at the DATAVERSITY® […]