Is metadata ‘All OR nothing’ enterprise initiative?
Knowing the objective of the metadata, it can be interpreted that a metadata has to have holistic and all-encompassing details on the organization. If you have a partial metadata, it would be detrimental, as half of the organization will follow it and other half will not. For example, if your metadata has the details on the CRM system, but does not have it on ERP system, an IT person has to refer to multiple references on what is going on in these systems. This will reduce the reliability and usage of metadata leading to its slow death. The fact is that organizations over time have failed to make a truly enterprise wide metadata, due to multiple reasons: • Lack of metadata standards • Too big an undertaking in terms of band-width and investment required. By the time you have an enterprise metadata repository, many things and CEOs would have changed. • Lack of good metadata management tools. The typical approach for building metadata repository is to create community OR usage based meta
