Has anyone else been thinking deeply about the difference between the two? …it’s pretty significant and something I’ll be researching for the next few weeks.
The impetus for this project is a long history working in the fields of content migration (SharePoint-SharePoint and SharePoint-non SharePoint), information replication and synchronization (working with client using Metalogix Replicator for SharePoint and architecting its extension to support real-time replication between Lotus Notes and SharePoint for the US Navy), and large scale, heterogeneous, enterprise architecture software systems (based on BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio).
Additional background context includes my experiences with SharePoint (and Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud hosted version of SharePoint and the rest of the Office system), Salesforce, SQL Server (and the Microsoft data platform), and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, in turn, are all examples of large metadata-driven enterprise software platforms.
More recently, with the support of the product group I’ve been taking a critical look at Microsoft’s cloud hosted *data* catalog solution (Azure Data Catalog) as a Master X Management platform. I’m trying to figure would what the best description for X is …now and as ADC evolves going forward.
“More news at 11…”
Hyperonomy Digital Identity Lab™ - hyperonomy.com 
One of the best clarifications is the addition of a simple hyphen: Metadata Management vs. Master-Data Management. The sun begins to peek over the horizon…
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