Why you need metadata management and how to approach it
As your data operations evolve, they become messier. Diverse data sources and data models at their sources, multiple movements of data throughout your platform, and cobbled-up infrastructure, which has grown in complexity through every deployment have made it hard to identify, trace, classify, and understand your data assets. This can be as simple as an analyst spending hours trying to figure out where a data attribute in a table came from and whether it is trustworthy.