Metadata management has become a key area in the company's to keep track of information's passing through many gates and understand it's value and how it's getting changed from one BU and another
Data Lineage Tools :-
Why Data Lineage :-
Lets imagine that an user has complained about user having multiple records with different customer information's.To understand the root cause of this in current world without metadata information will involve SME(subject matter experts) and it takes ages to back track.
Data lineage can answer the questions, tracing the data path (it’s “lineage”) upstream from the source to target, capturing it's original source,data flow transformation and target information's as well .
How to Track :-
This lineage should be presented in a visual format, preferably with options for viewing at a summary level with an option to drill down for individual column and process details.
Knowing the original source, and understanding “what happens” to the data as it flows to a report helps boost confidence in the results and the overall business intelligence infrastructure.
Data Lineage Tools :-
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