The reference frame of given

To constitute the reference frame of meta-data

The management of the data becomes today one of the primordial functions of the firm. It is indeed important to guarantee data quality circulating within the information system and more particularly of the decisional system.

Before using information, the decision maker will put the following questions:

- Which is this information?
- From which does it come?
- How is it calculated?
- Of when date the last updating?
- Which are the use cautions? …

All this information on the data is contained in an overall reference frame: the reference frame of meta-data.
Before long, all the software packages of the information system will upgrade the common reference frame of management of the meta-data. Until lately, the absence of standard of format of storage remained the last difficulty. Two formats were available: the (Open Information) and the . The primarily constant first by Microsoft, the second by a coalition with inter alia: Oracle and IBM. The lowered the arms and decided to contribute to the common model: the .

CWM Common Warehouse Metamodel

( ™) is a specification describing the exchanges of given for the majority of the tools of dated , decision-making tools, of knowledge management and informational gate. The ( ™) proposes a common basis for the majority of the formats of given.
To know some a little more visit the site of the Management

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