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Metadata Management
Centralized, enterprise-wide metadata management
Integrated metadata (information about data sources, including how it was derived, business rules and access authorizations) is crucial for producing accurate, consistent information. SAS provides an open, centralized and integrated metadata repository so that data changes can be documented in one place, there are fewer systems to support and business users can count on accurate data.
A centrally managed metadata implementation ensures that one definition of data, locations, content and business rules is used by all technology and solutions. This minimizes the costs normally associated with managing multiple metadata resources and simplifies deployment, administration and use.
Key Benefits
- Lowers cost of ownership. Multiple data sources are supported through a common metadata layer to leverage existing database infrastructures.
- Simplifies systems support. The self-documenting integration process and centralized framework make it easy to manage integration activities and processes.
- Ensures data integrity. The entire end-to-end process can be documented on the metadata level. Impact analysis provides a full view of how changes in operational systems impact ETL, reporting, and data analysis processes while data lineage offers transparency for corporate compliance needs.
Key Features
- Easy-to-use GUI for creating and managing metadata that describes global resources such as users, groups, libraries and servers.
- A centralized facility for creating, managing and maintaining authorization information and access control in one place.
- Technology platform diversity. The SAS metadata structure can be built, maintained and accessed across a wide range of hardware platforms and operating systems.
- Change management facility for controlling concurrent access to shareable metadata.
- Support for industry standards. SAS supports the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) as an open and manageable interchange standard.
- MITI bridges provide input and output linkage to SAS metadata.
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Looking for more information on SAS' Metadata Management capabilities?
- Download the white paper "The Value of Integrated Metadata: SAS Open Metadata Architecture".
- Download the SAS Metadata Server fact sheet.
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Download the FREE white paper The Value of Integrated Metadata: SAS Open Metadata Architecture
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Industries
Enterprise Data Integration