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May 25, 2007

It's Your Metadata

An enterprise asset is a technical resource that can be used across business units and/or across applications. This definition includes assets such as Web services, shared components, systems, interfaces, data definition and schemas. The idea is that an enterprise repository should contain any asset regardless of type. That being said, most organizations have a collection of repositories to fulfill the service of metadata delivery. One common theme is that if you don't share the asset, then why would you catalog it? What would you do if a business unit approached your metadata organization with a truckload of data assets but wanted to lock access down so that no one could access the information? Worse yet, these data assets are not enterprise level and can't be shared with other business units.
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Posted by Todd at May 25, 2007 10:10 PM