Metadata is the critical layer in data that is necessary for exposing, understanding, and more effectively using data to inform business decisions. At ExxonMobil, however, metadata had never been treated as a strategic asset until recently. In this presentation, we will give you a glimpse into the efforts we are taking to enhance, catalog, and more effectively derive value from metadata at ExxonMobil. Metadata management is a living journey at ExxonMobil and we’ll share with you our challenge in dealing with legacy systems, wrangling definitions, key learnings from along the way that you can reapply, and our vision to make metadata a truly strategic business asset.

• Metadata is core to enabling businesses to more effectively find and use data for business decisions 
• Metadata is often not treated as a strategic asset, making data itself less usable 
• ExxonMobil is on the path to make metadata an asset – cataloging, mapping, and exposing all data assets in the enterprise 
• Dive into ExxonMobil’s lessons learned, successes, and vision in making metadata a strategic asset that you can reapply to your organizations