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Today’s enterprise-level finance departments are highly complex, relying on dozens of business process-specific applications to manage everything from accounts receivable to zero-based budgeting strategies.

How organizations manage enterprise metadata change requests has a huge impact on the quality of the dimensions, hierarchies, and properties that business applications use to aggregate and analyze data.

Stop for a moment and take a mental inventory of all of the business applications your organization relies on. It’s a huge list, right?

Over the past two decades, there has been a surge in the volume, sources, and types of data that must be organized and analyzed before it can be used to power enterprise business processes. Although it’s next to impossible to pinpoint the exact amount of structured and unstructured business data being generated and consumed every day, it’s safe to say that between video, text, images, streaming,...