Design and implementation of a metadata management tool in an insurance company

This thesis deals with the implementation of a metadata management tool in a commercial insurance company environment. The main objective of the thesis is to design a metamodel that meets the specific needs of the insurance company and to implement a pilot project in the selected metadata management tool. In the introduction of the thesis, different types of metadata are described along with their specifics, metadata management as a sub-area of data management, as well as metadata management systems with their standard functionality, architecture and current trends affecting them, are explained to set the foundation for the context of the thesis. The author then focuses on the context of a specific insurance company, its systems and the metadata management practices. The main stakeholder groups are introduced along with their interests, which are then transformed into a formalized list of requirements. In the following section, the author proposes a logical metamodel for the tool and describes its different components and their interrelationships. The presentation of the metamodel is followed by a section dedicated to the pilot project, which describes the implementation of the proposed metamodel in a specific tool and evaluates whether the identified requirements have been met. The output of the thesis is a solution implemented in accordance with the proposed metamodel on the Dawiso cloud platform.