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Managed Meta Data Environment: A Complete Walk-Through, Part 1

Meta Data & Knowledge Management: Managed Meta Data Environment: A Complete Walk-Through, Part 1 | Business intelligence, data warehousing and analytics editorial from DMReview

Almost every corporation and government agency has already built, is in the process of building or is looking to build a managed meta data environment (MME). Many organizations, however, are making fundamental mistakes. An enterprise may build many meta data repositories (or “islands of meta data”) that are not linked together and, as a result, do not provide as much value (see sidebar).