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Metadata Governance Suite : Use Cases

The Metadata Governance Suite satisfies several use cases that are of relevance to senior management.

Creating Transparency within the systems environment.
Monitoring Growth of IT Infrastructure
Having the ability to access information quickly.

1.1 Creation of an Enterprise Information Inventory to identify information assets

Most organizations have a poor understanding of their information assets. Primary causes are:

Corporate IT environments are complex, and it is costly to create an inventory.
Employee turnover can lead to gaps in knowledge.
The environment is changing all the time, and documentation is not maintained.

The Global IDs Metadata Governance Suite can create a comprehensive, up-to-date inventory of core information assets.Organizations can use this information to reduce the cost of data and information management activities.

1.2 Creation of an Enterprise Metadata Repository to Create Transparency

The Global IDs Metadata Governance Suite can quickly create a comprehensive, up-to-date metadata repository by scanning the data environment and populating the repository with metadata from structured, unstructured and semi-structured information sources. The presence of an up-to-date metadata repository can assist in all data management projects ( Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Master Data Management etc.) and can force process and discipline in data management processes.

Data Discovery Features

Data Discovery provides the ability to automatically scan and identify information assets within an organization. The DPS Product Suite offers the following list of features to aid the Data Discovery Process

#	Requirement	Available	Comments
1	Create a Metadata Repository without significant manual involvement	Yes
2	Scan all structured databases of interest	Yes	See database types supported
3	Scan all unstructured data of interest	Yes	See content formats supported
4	Scan all semi-structured data	No	In development (beta). See supported formats
5	Provide web access to metadata repository	Yes
6	Profile the structured data	Yes	10 types of profiling is supported. See details
7	Automatically detect data quality problems in structured data	Yes
8	Create a data dictionary and glossary for critical business data	Yes	Requires some degree of manual input
9	Continuously monitor the metadata environment for changes	Yes
10	Create metadata reports and profile reports on demand	Yes