Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge

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that needs a new report or analysis. The organization’s analysts sit down and

plan how they are going to write programs in order to get the analysis done. If

they had a good metadata repository, they could ask the simple question: Has

someone in this organization already addressed this problem or a very similar

problem? And if the problem has already been addressed, wouldn’t it be much

faster and more efficient to use reports and analyses that already exist than to

have to write a new set of reports? When there is no metadata directory, the

organization is faced with building everything from scratch every time a new

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