Love Your Metadata

The value and importance of metadata is one of the most underrated aspects of information technology (IT) today. Often defined as “data about data,” it has been a lightning rod for misinterpretation and myth, which has undermined its significance and fueled misunderstandings about the impact it can have on enterprise content management (ECM) and other IT disciplines.

According to a March 2012 Gartner Research Report, “Metadata unlocks the value of data and, therefore, requires management attention.” Many companies are missing out on the myriad business benefits that proper metadata management offers, from highly improved management of workflows, business processes and access permissions, to faster, more accurate information navigation and search, all of which directly lead to better overall business performance

Included in this white paper:

• Information retrieval and dissemination
• Best practices to manage metadata separately
• Metadata-driven navigation and "dynamic views"