Data Acquisition Defined
What is data acquisition.
We define it as this: Data acquisition is the processes for bringing data that has been created by a source outside the organization, into the organization, for production use.
Prior to the Big Data revolution, companies were inward-looking in terms of data.
During this time, data-centric environments like data warehouses .
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The Data Acquisition Process
What is exciting about data acquisition to data professionals is the richness of its process.
Consider a basic set of tasks that constitute a data acquisition process:.
1) A need for data is identified, perhaps with use cases.
2) Prospecting for the required data is carried out 3.
Data sources are disqualified, leaving a set of qualified sources.
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The Need For Metadata Tools
Given the characteristics of data acquisition, how should it be handled.
A fairly obvious conclusion is that because it consists of so many tasks and involves so many different organizational units, some form of tooling is required.
The variety of metadata that is produced by the overall process — and the need to utilize it both within the process .