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Again the Header of this report provides great metadata, “Products having
sales greater than 5% of the total for that product category.” In this case we have
additional metadata in a sub-Header, “Page Items,” which defines some of the filter-
ing used to produce this report. The report is filtered by Year, Region, and Product
Type. Yet we are still missing metadata and have to infer that the Product hierarchy
is Product Type, Product Category, and then Product. Our point here is that great
metadata exists in many of the enterprise’s reports and spreadsheet. However, only
a portion of the metadata necessary for complete business understanding ...