Metadata is a vital component of every data asset that provides the context, meaning and usability necessary for business decision-making. It can help solve business problems by providing access to information in ways that were impossible previously.

Key Values/Differencemakers

The best metadata management tools are easy to use, provide scalable and integrable solutions that enable active metadata capture and categorization, and support the creation of metadata processes, policies, and data governance requirements. These features help companies quickly and easily find, manage, analyze and deliver the insights they need to drive their businesses.

Integrated metadata management allows organizations to identify and ingest the complete, rich and contextual content that’s available in their data ecosystem. It can help organizations elicit action and improve outcomes by enabling a variety of business, technical and security users to work together to create and manage their own digital assets.

Smartlogic Adaptive Metadata Manager is an enterprise metadata management solution that enables companies to discover, ingest and manage their data. It combines multiple software components to address data quality, data lineage, data governance, change management, auditing and reporting, and metadata discovery across multiple industries and data domains.

Collibra – A Data Dictionary

Collaborative authoring is key to an effective metadata management approach, and this is where Collibra differentiates itself. Its Data Dictionary provides a searchable catalog of business, technical and operational metadata for each of an organization’s data assets. It describes the structure of a data item and its relationship to other information assets in terms of file type, format, archival rules, and usage rights.