Metadata Management Tools

Metadata Management

What is Metadata Management Tools?

A metadata layer makes reporting easy and eliminates the need for coding and SQL, allowing users and report writers to see and access information in simple business language. A metadata management platform provides a robust set of tools for configuring, standardizing and managing metadata attributes across multiple applications and services.

Common Features

  • Collaboration
  • APIs and Integration
  • Business Rules and Event Management
  • Automation of Metadata Creation
  • Business Glossary
  • Data Lineage
  • Data Monitoring and Administration
  • Hierarchy Management
  • Business Context
  • Metadata Design
  • ML-augmented data discovery and classification
  • Data life cycle management and data deletion
  • Hotspot Reporting
  • Automated Sensitivity Classification for Data Sources

Top Metadata Management Tools

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Next Award: Jul 2025

Top Metadata Management Tools 2024

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Progress Software

Progress Semaphore

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

Progress Semaphore is а metadata management and semantic AI platform that helps organizations manage knowledge models and automatically extract and classify both structured and unstructured data to generate rich semantic metadata. Semaphore removes layers of information complexity, addresses problems related to unstructured data, language ambiguity and data silos and enables organizations to transform their data into information for meaningful, actionable intelligence.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Saves Time
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Solidatus

Solidatus

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Award-winning Solidatus is empowering enterprises globally to accelerate their understanding and optimisation of their data and organisational processes. The Solidatus methodology for digitally transforming organisations to be data-centric and lineage-enabled is changing how businesses discover, document, map and manage their data.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features
  • Saves Time
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Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

Collibra offers a cloud-based platform that empowers organizations to unlock the value of their data and achieve Data Intelligence. With the Collibra Platform, business users can gain visibility into their data, collaborate intelligently and build a data-centric culture among their peers.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Unique Features
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Respectful
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Semantic Web Company

PoolParty

Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

PoolParty Semantic Suite is the most complete and advanced semantic middleware platform on the global market. It uses innovative means to help organizations build and manage enterprise knowledge graphs as a basis for their AI strategy.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Caring
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Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.5 /10

Impact your business with improved data stewardship and data integrity. Understand, analyze, and quantify the impact of data on your business processes to enhance operational, analytical, and data governance initiatives.

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Pros

  • Acts with Integrity
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Altruistic
  • Respectful
Composite Score
7.2 /10
CX Score
7.3 /10

A machine learning-based data catalog that lets you classify and organize data assets across any environment to maximize data value and reuse, and provides a metadata system of record for the enterprise.

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Pros

  • Acts with Integrity
  • Respectful
  • Trustworthy
  • Fair

Cons

  • Under Delivered
Composite Score
6.9 /10
CX Score
7.1 /10

Alation provides an open, powerful, and intelligent data platform that supports a wide variety of metadata management and related applications from search and discovery to data governance to digital transformation. incorporates machine learning to analyze the ways data is used and to identify patterns from those accessing information.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Fair

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TIBCO Software

TIBCO EBX

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

TIBCO's master data management (MDM) platform delivers the governance processes needed to construct and effectively maintain a centralized source of accurate intelligence.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure Data Catalog

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Azure Data Catalog is an enterprise-wide metadata catalog that makes data asset discovery straightforward. It’s a fully-managed service that lets you—from analyst to data scientist to data developer—register, enrich, discover, understand, and consume data sources.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management (OEMM) is a comprehensive metadata management platform. OEMM can harvest and catalog metadata from virtually any metadata provider, including relational, Hadoop, ETL, BI, data modeling, and many more. OEMM however is not just a metadata repository, OEMM allows for interactive searching and browsing of the metadata as well as providing data lineage, impact analysis, semantic definition and semantic usage analysis for any metadata asset within the catalog.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing