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allow metrics to be created for the process and can therefore facilitate process
improvement.
Business metadata can partner with knowledge management to the extent
that the knowledge management initiatives can articulate knowledge artifacts.
These artifacts can be stored as business metadata and disseminated to busi-
ness users when and where they can be helpful.
The interesting aspect of this relationship is business metadata’s later use
to supply context for data throughout the organization. But business metadata
also has context: for example, the knowledge management process that created
it or is using it. Therefore, it could be said that ...