National Data
Catalog Initiative
SUMMARY
Large Public Healthcare System Operator engaged Exusia to architect and implement a metadata management & data lineage solution for a national data catalog initiative, involving disparate data feeds from over 100,000 organizations.
Problem Statement
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Lack of technical lineage information across huge pool of systems, leading to major gaps related to dependency, redundancy, business value
and ownership -
Existing business data dictionary does not connect with technical assets, causing inefficiencies in ingestion, processing prioritization and data
authoring -
Time consuming, manual processes associated with harvesting of metadata assets, linking technical to business artifacts, and metadata
continuum assurance
Exusia Solution
- Delivered a data architecture implementation strategy, including enterprise reference data association between technical and business assets
- Demonstrated technical data ingestion and business term linking capabilities thru horizontal and vertical lineage methodologies
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Created a metadata management framework capable of semantic discovery, business term propagation and visual representation of lineage
across business and technical views - Leveraged Agile Methodology and global scrum team to support to meet timelines while decreasing cost of resourcing
Business Outcome
- Significant insights from automated harvesting of metadata assets and association to existing business dictionary
- Vital connection between metadata/lineage processes and business glossary governance & collaboration capabilities
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Industry best practice for data management associated with national data catalog and metadata continuum capabilities of the reference data
architecture
