Manager, Office of Enterprise Data Management at State of Arizona
Real User
Top 10
2022-11-27T05:19:00Z
Nov 27, 2022
We've had a lot of turnover in our agency in the past several years, and we have many new staff members who don't know where our data is. We had not had a virtual metadata repository or any kind of metadata repository. That was one issue we needed to address because people were creating data silos. They didn't know we had data in our transactional databases. Another big issue is that we need to implement Phase 2 of an agency-wide data quality program, and we like the automated data quality rules in Lumada's Data Catalog. We didn't find a regular, full-time data quality person, so we're using this solution for that. And the third use case is that we're about three months into an application modernization project. It is going to be a sweeping, epic project for our agency in which we are moving to online applications, permitting and licensing on Salesforce. We believe that by tagging fields there before the consultant starts, and as the consultant works through it, and then after, if data is migrated elsewhere, it will be tremendously helpful for the success of the project.
What is Metadata Management? Metadata management is the administration of metadata (data that describes other data) across your organization. The management of metadata involves establishing processes and policies to ensure that information can be best accessed, integrated, shared, maintained, and analyzed across an organization.
We've had a lot of turnover in our agency in the past several years, and we have many new staff members who don't know where our data is. We had not had a virtual metadata repository or any kind of metadata repository. That was one issue we needed to address because people were creating data silos. They didn't know we had data in our transactional databases. Another big issue is that we need to implement Phase 2 of an agency-wide data quality program, and we like the automated data quality rules in Lumada's Data Catalog. We didn't find a regular, full-time data quality person, so we're using this solution for that. And the third use case is that we're about three months into an application modernization project. It is going to be a sweeping, epic project for our agency in which we are moving to online applications, permitting and licensing on Salesforce. We believe that by tagging fields there before the consultant starts, and as the consultant works through it, and then after, if data is migrated elsewhere, it will be tremendously helpful for the success of the project.