Without available knowledge about the meaning and quality of the organization’s data, let alone an inventory, it is impossible to efficiently leverage it for decision making or insight, regardless of the technology being used. Data Governance programs talk about creating enterprise glossaries and making information available to everyone in the organization, but accomplishing that is easier said than done. We’ve been trying to create enterprise metadata repositories for decades, with more failures than successes. But a lot has been learned from those failures This presentation will cover the techniques, technologies, and challenges involved in successfully collecting and presenting business metadata across the organization.