Category Archives: Metadata Secret Sauce Series

Today I will answer three questions that will help you to get traction, and succeed with your metadata initiatives. 1. What are the key elements needed? 2. Where does metadata fit in? 3. How to get started? Knowing the answers to these three questions can literally pay big dividends for your organization. With a modest budget, a… Read More »

Metadata for Data Governance and Stewardship Master Data For compliance reasons, you generally have to be able to prove that the metadata accurately describes the master data. The easiest way to furnish this proof is to show that the processes that handle the master data are derived directly from the metadata or vice versa. For… Read More »

Metadata for Regulatory Compliance and Personal Information Protection. Metadata Describing Private Data Ensuring that the private data stored by a business is adequately protected is increasingly the responsibility of a chief privacy officer (CPO). Typically, CPOs are responsible for ensuring privacy laws are complied with, identifying the data in a company that needs to be… Read More »

Metadata Management Software Framework Now that we covered the basics to establishing a program within your organization, let’s have a look at software tools to help drive our initiatives forward. Remember Metadata Management is a Dependency of: Data Quality. Data Governance. Master Data. Big Data. Data management best practices. The human brain metadata sucker device… Read More »

Ready to Develop a Metadata Program? In Previous Articles in this Series we have Covered: Why are we not leveraging our metadata today? Why projects fail. Common perceptions that prevent us from utilizing our metadata. How and why metadata management is important. That business metadata holds the key (focus should be here). That technical metadata… Read More »

The Big Picture Perspectives We’ve broken down the types of metadata into three main perspectives Technical, Business, and Enterprise as depicted in this diagram. Aspects for Metadata Management Technical Metadata Aspect Here we address capturing technical metadata within a repository such as schemas, configurations, and code using automated processes and adapters. Since this aspect is mostly… Read More »

In the last post, I discussed why we need metadata management, and some of the common reasons we see projects false starts, and failures. In this post I will focus on what I feel is the number one inhibitor of successful establishment of a metadata management program. A propensity to focus on the technical and lack of good… Read More »

Overview This is the first article in a series blog I will be updating regularly. I will discuss the many aspects of metadata management including pitfalls and the secret sauce to successfully starting, leveraging and making use of the valuable metadata buried within your IT infrastructure. IT folks all know and believe that metadata management… Read More »