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October 4, 2006

Metadata: What It Is And Why It's Important

Use Metadata In Your Own Software To Increase Agility

by Larry Fulton

with Carey Schwaber, Jacqueline Stone

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Metadata is used to customize or even control the behavior of software systems outside of the software development cycle. Software vendors incorporate high levels of configurability into their systems to accommodate a broad range of customer needs. IT developers can leverage the same approaches to make their software more adaptable to changing business conditions. IT designers and developers should incorporate metadata into their design thinking to create more agile business systems.

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