Metadata has proven to be one of the most important, as well as most ignored, aspects of data management. Organizations are adding data at a terrific rate and there is a need for an efficient and effective way to manage the information assets related to that data.  Metadata, or data about the data, provides critical information about downstream information objects: definitions, how and when it was collected, presentation information, quality metrics, lineage, and other characteristics.

Metadata Management is a key part of the overall data governance and plays a big part in ensuring overall data quality.  A robust Metadata Management repository can store key characteristics of data elements, serving as the information backbone for Data Governance, Master Data Management, and Data Quality initiatives.

Claraview recognizes that enterprise data warehousing solutions benefit greatly from a sound metadata architecture that covers all the relevant  aspects of data coming from different sources, maintained centrally in the data warehouse and made available for querying with BI tools.