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barriers. The book has explored all kinds of mitigation strategies to circumvent
these barriers.
This chapter discusses several topics we have learned from implementation
of business metadata:
Use of the business rules approach to manage business change
Virtual knowledge sharing through groupware
Enterprise search, and how business metadata can facilitate finding
documents faster
In an attempt to forecast the future for business metadata, four industry
trends become evident:
Metadata delivery, including innovative portal vendors offering new
vehicles for users to integrate and share information, like enterprise
“mashups”