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How to Build a Metadata Plan in Five Steps

AIIM

Metadata resides at the center of many of the essential aspects of content management. In addition to helping organize and classify content, Metadata enables good findability, can trigger workflow and transactional processes, reveals document usage patterns and history, and helps establish retention and disposition events.

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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Collibra wins a gold medal for metadata management

Collibra

So, we are incredibly excited to announce that Collibra is a gold medal winner in this year’s SoftwareReviews’ Metadata management data quadrant awards. . According to SoftwareReviews, Collibra was up against a handful of data intelligence tools to determine the best metadata management solution. .

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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Top 7 Data Governance and Metadata Management Blog Posts of 2019

erwin

Such understanding also equips organizations to meet customer demands as well as deal more effectively with the regulatory landscape – which is evolving at a fast rate. To help you prepare for 2020, we’ve compiled some of the most popular data governance and metadata management blog posts from the erwin Experts from this year.

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Metadata Management, Data Governance and Automation

erwin

With automation, data professionals can meet the above needs at a fraction of the cost of the traditional, manual way. And this time, you guessed it – we’re focusing on data automation and how it could impact metadata management and data governance. Better quality code and minimized rework. Click here to take the brief survey.

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Enterprise Architecture Tools and the Changing Role of the Enterprise Architect

erwin

Enterprise architecture tools are becoming more important than ever. As the IEAI’s definition indicates, enterprise architecture tools are key drivers in ensuring such alignment because they help organizations understand their systems, applications and assets from a holistic, top-down perspective.