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Abstract
Metadata is important for effective use of a data warehouse.
It always existed with our data banks but the awareness
on its use and making it available to the business users
is what will make the difference. While metadata is
not new, the role of metadata and its importance in
the face of the data warehouse is certainly new. In
today’s competitive environment when every company
is looking for an edge over its competitors, building
a Meta Data Repository is no longer an option, but an
absolute requirement for improvements in business. Business
community has realized that Metadata is not only crucial
for the management of the IT applications but is also
necessary for the effective use by the business end
user.
This white paper discusses an approach
developed while providing a customized metadata solution
for a large data warehouse application of a utilities
client of Wipro. The paper talks about the approach
in a generic way so that it can be applied to any other
data warehouse project. The business value that the
solution has provided to the client has also been discussed
and a comparison is given with the other available tools
vis-à-vis features. The methodology proposed
in this paper can be used in any customer centric data
warehouse.
Authors
Padampreet Singh Wadhwa, Prakash Kamalapur
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