Utilizing metadata as a knowledge communication tool

The modern enterprise environment is a collection of technical, functional, application, and data related assets loosely connected within a heterogeneous environment. Communicating the inventory, meaning, and eventual understanding of the knowledge held within the corporation can be a daunting task This work presents a detailed methodology and case study of building enterprise business intelligence from a multi-dimensional metadata framework. The framework includes structural, integration, and semantic metadata as well as the physical components required to deliver the functionality to the end user. The case study section will review a large telecommunications effort at communicating the knowledge of enterprise business intelligence.