As data grows horizontally across the enterprise, businesses are faced with the need to better define data and create an accurate, transparent and accessible view of their metadata. As a way of achieving these goals, EMA has identified metadata management and business glossary as foundational technologies that support the following seven, key best practices:

1. Serve the stakeholders

2. Automate and manage data governance

3. Master Data Management (MDM)

4. Collaboration

5. Integrated process and workflow

6. Easy to use and adopt

7. Culture of unification

These slides will help you to better understand data and key foundational technologies, get an in-depth view of these best practices, and learn how combining the two can be used to solve distinct business and technical problems.