Quick Answer: What is Active Metadata?

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Has your organization recognized that active metadata is essential for success?

It’s the topic on everybody’s lips right now, and for good reason. Wherever data is used, active metadata makes it more informative, trustworthy, controllable and governable.

It has always been at the heart of everything we do. With Solidatus, your data will be more dynamic, more complete, and your decisions will be made based on context as well as content.

What Does Gartner Say About Active Metadata?

In their latest report, Gartner® gave the quick answer to the much-asked question: what is active metadata?

Gartner ® includes an important prediction in the research that highlights just how important active metadata could be for your organization: “By 2026, organizations adopting active metadata practices will increase to 30% across data and analytics to accelerate automation, insight discovery and recommendations.”

Will your organization be part of that 30%?

Gartner, Quick Answer: What Is Active Metadata?, by Melody Chien, Mark Beyer, Thornton Craig, Robert Thanaraj, 29 March 2023 

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Published on: April 19, 2023

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