What are the business benefits of metadata management? | Blog

Metadata is ‘data about data’. Metadata management gives you the frameworks, processes, and tools to understand the context of that data. Without reliable metadata management, an organisation doesn’t know what data it has, what it represents, where it originates, how it moves through systems, who has access to it, etcetera. So, let’s get to the good part… we’ve put together some key benefits a metadata management solution can bring to your business, to show its true potential. Increased value and confidence in your data As data culture continues to boom, metadata management has become increasingly important. Companies have begun relying on data to guide their business’ strategic decisions and are treating data as a crucial asset. But in order for that asset to be useable, you need to be able to have complete confidence in the information you’re working with. Metadata management gives the context to each piece of data, so you have all the necessary information to trust that specific dat...