Metadata Governance Implementation Literature Review and Propose Work on Telecommunication Industry

Abstract

Current advancement of technology demanded better management and maintenance of data within an organization. It is crucial for an organization to adopt well-maintained metadata management across multiple systems and data sources within an organization to ensure, data quality, data integrity, ease of access and data value can be preserved. This study aims to lay out a comparative study on previous or existing works on metadata governance framework as part of main representation of data management through the implementation of data governance framework. Outcome from the review found that governing metadata especially in a robust environment requires control mechanism aspect to properly govern the data and its metadata to ensure business goals are aligned and achievable via proper governance. Telco industry, which deals with huge amount of customer, operations and network data, is chosen as a case study to voice out the importance of metadata governance framework implementation.