6 Metadata Collection and Reports

Provides metadata information.

• Overview of Managing Metadata
  Metadata is any data about data and, as such, is an important aspect of the data warehouse environment. Metadata allows the end user and the business analyst to navigate through the possibilities at a higher business object level
• Browsing Metadata Reports and Dashboard
  To customize the Oracle Communications Data Model model, you must understand the dependencies among Oracle Communications Data Model components, especially how the report KPIs are mapped to the physical tables and columns. Oracle Communications Data Model provides a tool, the Metadata browser that helps you discover these dependencies. When you install Oracle Communications Data Model with its sample reports, the metadata browser is delivered as a sample Dashboard in the webcat.
• Collecting and Populating Metadata
  The Oracle Communications Data Model metadata browser generation packages generate and update the Oracle Communications Data Model metadata.