Alternative Approach for Enterprise Metadata Management

Overview

Metadata management is an important aspect of today's data warehouse / business intelligence systems. Enterprises are beginning to realize that proper management of metadata can have a significant impact: increasing productivity of their staff and usability of their enterprise systems. Current approaches to building metadata management systems that utilize commercial off the shelf tools are generally inadequate, as well as expensive to implement. It is then no surprise that a large percentage of metadata management projects fail. This whitepaper discusses the challenges in implementing an enterprise-wide metadata management system for a data warehouse / business intelligence environment and describes a more effective approach to managing metadata.