Enterprise Wide Search 07: Anna Ibrahim - The Meta Grid is already there

I talked to Chief Data Architect, dr. Anna Ibrahim on Episode 07 - and this conversation marks a new direction for my podcast, as I will talk more concretely about the Meta Grid in the episodes going forward. As you will hear, Anna has deep technical understanding and - just as important - organizational experience to testify that the Meta Grid is already out there. In this conversation, we discuss the wealth of metadata repositories, that each at least in principle leverage different, distinct capabilities - albeit they contain the same metadata.

However, Anna precisely addresses that this is not always the case, that there is an overlap of capabilities delivered by metadata repositories, and points to the paradox that vendors try to position themselves as unique, although they actually deliver redundant capabilities.

Nevertheless, we expand the topic to include not only vendors, but also consultancies and internal employees - this reality that I call the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (all three parties can play all three roles). Also, at least for the next couple of months, I have decided to publish episodes on my podcast a little less frequently, but deeper and slightly longer conversations. I simply have to finalize my book, Fundamentals of Metadata Management (O'Reilly, 2025).

In conclusion, I am very happy I got to have this conversation. I think that tech- and consultancy companies should listen to this episode. For each industrial company I sare to claim: The Meta Grid is already there.

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