Active Metadata Warehouse

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Active Metadata Warehouse

An Active Metadata Warehouse is a repository of Metadata to help speed up data reporting and analyses from an active data warehouse. In its most simple definition, a Metadata is data describing data.

Many companies have spent years and billions of dollars trying to cleanse, profile, extract, transform, load and aggregate many different types of data into a Data Warehouse so they could use it in any way they want such as generate reports which are very accurate and share the business common views.

Many tools which are user-friendly query software applications and near real-time updating have been spent money on. To some degree, they have data which are accurate, accessible and timely. According to a recent report from a survey, less than 40 percent say they have come up wit accurate automated reports. This was because there never was a Meta data warehouse.

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