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the values showing these colors since there are no dates attached to the report?
If the quality of the data and its values are questioned, then the coloring of the
Margin cells must be questioned, leading to business analyst research efforts
that could be avoided if more robust business metadata were available.
2.6 Summary
This chapter has shown that business metadata is very valuable for assisting the
enterprise in the understanding of what data means and its practical ramifications,
and the value of this metadata is emphasized when it is missing.
There are many reasons metadata plays such ...