Metadata: Finding the Information That You Need

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In enterprise, there is a massive amount of data that can’t be found, but metadata is one of the alternative solution to find the data that people need to get easily and more efficiently. Metadata contains every data that is in enterprises such as the information of the contents, records that they use. The purpose of using metadata is not only using for finding data that they need, but also used in management of informations. Metadata produces a number of benefits to enterprises which are avoiding duplications, regulatory compliances, Business process management, Better estimations and business case management and many more.

In one of the big company, Informatica is that data integration software and services to the organisation that enable to get the advantage to compete with others. They basically based on the metadata to run the company. Furthermore, SAS, is the company that helps organisation anticipate business opportunities, empower action and drive impact. They create and manage the metadata and define access to control and manage users through a single environment. By doing this, a number of metadata are provided to import and export the metadata from a variety of sources. They also track change history to find out who made changes and when the changes took place. As the metadata stand for finding information easily, they create data items with descriptive labels to organise data items into folder and subfolder for users to find the informations. By creating table aliases to provide additional flexibility required for proper query generations, and they create predefined filter expressions so users can choose the appropriate result subset, creating prompted filters so users can dynamically select filter values when creati...

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As above, based on the metadata management in organisations produces a number of significant problems that can not be solved or solved. In enterprise, there is always no best way for leading the company to the right way. Both of advantages and disadvantages of metadata are taken together since metadata management is not the perfect in managing the all the data management.

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