Metadata is a term for data that describes the attributes of another set of data. Metadata can determine much of what you encounter online, from the top search results returned in Google to the ...

About 90% of business data is unstructured and often siloed across systems, according to a Box - sponsored IDC white paper.

Today, nobody argues about the importance of data. It is a given that data must be collected, managed, and analyzed to conduct business successfully in the modern era. But all too often the meaning of ...

Streaming is an actively evolving technology, writes Wheatstone's Rick Bidlack, and the queen of streaming, metadata, will ...

For banks that have invested in Big Data capabilities but are struggling to generate value from them, metadata can unlock meaningful insights. Jiang, Capgemini: In order to analyze, you need to know ...

The tired cliche used by those advocating for mandatory data retention is that metadata is the "envelope" not the "letter". That is, it tells you who sent what to whom, where and at what time. Since ...