Metadata in the cloud, benefits for the business

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Cloud metadata is of the utmost importance in the market due to its ease of access and all the information it gathers instantly.
The term metadata , data about data, is becoming increasingly interesting in all sectors, both public and private, since it plays a very important role in understanding the activities, attitudes, tastes and purchases of Internet users.

Any institution, government or company should consider metadata management as a highly valued and beneficial asset, since the information generated by the data provides a more direct search for the user and defines the objective they want to achieve. In other words, metadata contains the particularities of each of the data or files we have and, in a global manner, gives us access to a very interesting and useful examination when managing this data. In particular, cloud metadata is currently the most relevant in the market due to the ease of access to it and all the information it gathers instantly.



Knowing the metadata, a value for the company
Having as much metadata about users as possible brings us closer to what we want to offer each interested party with greater precision and validity. That is why studying, evaluating and ig database the data will give us enormous potential.


One of the best ways to use metadata is to be able to take advantage of it to condense details that classify clients or business lines. The information contained in the metadata in turn provides information about who generates that data, place, time, etc. This data catalog or repository is assumed to be essential to create a strategy in which we can implement and establish the necessary tools to reach the user.





Data-related demands are constantly growing on organizations. (…) Data expectations in increasingly complex and distributed data environments are shifting organizations' focus from data management to metadata management, in the hope that if data is unmanageable, metadata will be easier to tame.

Source: Gartner


Organizing our metadata, a pillar of the business
Today we can no longer talk about the cloud, but about clouds, since the metadata that is accumulated and managed in these remote servers has different platforms , whether large ones such as Azure, AWS or more specific platforms such as Salesforce, Workday, or Oracle applications, among others. This growing amount of information, which a priori we thought would facilitate data management, can become a tangle that is difficult to manage if organizations of various types do not delimit, establish, arrange and use this metadata with a clear and precise strategy towards their objectives.

To do this, it is essential to establish the metadata that we have accumulated over time in different cloud applications to perform a more efficient classification of the data we have and clean those that are not necessary as well as purify entries that are duplicated. In this way, we will be able to catalog the information in a more reliable way with respect to our needs, not expand unrelated data and have a single concentrated and organized search source.