It is commonly recognized that in technology, the only constant is change. Nowhere is this more evident than in a data warehouse where, by its very nature, you have a dynamic and complex environment being utilized by a variety of users, such as administrators, analysts, designers, business users, programmers and even executives. Today's fast changing business environment creates large volumes of data. Although data are an indispensable resource for decision making, value is obtained from data when all of the data's characteristics, meaning and context are known and made available to users of the warehouse so they can extract information and knowledge from the data.

To make better decisions that positively affect a business, users need information that helps them interpret the data generated in today's business environment. They need effective, accessible metadata that describes the data in the warehouse and other corporate assets.

Learn how Teradata Meta Data Services, a comprehensive solution for managing metadata for a Teradata system, makes it possible to provide both technical and business context for the data in the warehouse, identify impact analysis, manage change, foster reuse and provide extensibility to help meet additional metadata management needs.