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MDM 101 – Overview of Metadata Management

Duration: 1 - 2 days

This course provides attendees with an overview of full life-cycle strategy and methodology for defining metadata requirements, capturing/integrating metadata, and accessing the metadata repository (network and web). The metadata repository provides the developers and users with a road map to the rich, strategic information contained within an organization’s data warehouse.

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Creating a managed metadata environment that is accessible and relevant to its users is essential to an organization’s successful use of their information assets. This course provides attendees with an overview of full life-cycle strategy and methodology for defining metadata requirements, capturing/integrating metadata, and accessing the metadata repository (network and web). The metadata repository provides the developers and users with a road map to the rich, strategic information contained within an organization’s data warehouse.

“Metadata Fundamentals” is an excellent introductory course for data administrators, data management team members, and C-level executives. Creating a metadata repository that is accessible and relevant to its users is essential to an organization’s successful use of their information assets. This presentation provides attendees with an overview of full life-cycle strategy and methodology for defining metadata requirements, capturing/integrating metadata, and accessing the metadata repository (network and web). The metadata repository provides the developers and users with a road map to the rich, strategic information contained within an organization’s data warehouse.

Objectives

  • Provide an overview of full life-cycle metadata management strategy.
  • Review a methodology for defining metadata requirements, capturing/integrating metadata, and accessing the metadata repository

Seminar Content

  • Understanding Metadata – Analyze the Current State of the Metadata Industry
    • Cutting through the metadata market hype
    • Defining metadata
      • Technical metadata
      • Business metadata
  • Challenges in the Metadata Industry
    • Selling the concept of building a managed metadata environment to the organization (ROI)
    • Active vs. Passive metadata
    • Top 10 things to avoid to ensure project success
    • Overview of a managed metadata environment (MME)
    • Challenges of implementing an MME
  • Keys to a Sound MME Architecture
  • Defining Metadata Requirements
  • Identifying Sources of Metadata
  • Integrating Sources of Metadata
  • Accessing the MME
  • Metadata Delivery
  • Metadata Repository Architecture
    • Centralized, Decentralized, and Distributed metadata management
  • Conclusion

About the Course Designer

This training was designed by David Marco, PhD, an internationally recognized authority on data and AI governance, to help teams succeed in real organizational conditions. The curriculum equips participants with practical judgment, shared language, and decision clarity that hold under scale, risk, and executive accountability.

David Marco PHD EWSolutions

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