![Data integration considerations for the data lake: The need for metadata](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/files/2015/08/1405018141441.png)
A few of our clients are exploring the use of a data lake as both a landing pad and a repository for collection of enterprise data sets. However, after probing a little bit about what they expected to do with this data lake, I found that the simple use of