If you have defined business rules and specified permanent keys, dependencies, and joins for an entity, you may want to copy the entity's metadata and standards to apply them to another load of data that matches the entity structure.
- Example scenario:
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Assume that your enterprise has several locations that rely on the same application to place and fulfill product orders. The data is locally stored at each location, but transmitted to the home office on a monthly basis for financial auditing purposes.
The home office can apply the same data compliance checks across the various site locations to assess data quality. This requires copying data compliance checks across entities with identical structures.
The following outlines the steps needed to complete this process:
- Create an entity and load the data into the repository.
- Apply all compliance checks.
- Copy metadata to a new entity (consider this a template since no data is copied).
- Load data into the new entity.
- Review the resulting compliance.