![Importance of metadata – Bridging the gap (Part 3: operational metadata usage) importance of metadata](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2016/12/503888163.jpg)
As I discussed in the first two blogs of this series, metadata is useful in a variety of ways. Its importance starts at the source system, and continues through the data movement and transformation processes and into operations. Operational metadata, in particular, gives us information about the execution and completion