1. An apparatus to identify redundancy in databases and application systems, the apparatus comprising: at least one meta data scanner; an enterprise meta data source; and a meta data repository, wherein the meta data repository receives system-specific meta data representative of the databases and application systems from the at least one meta data scanner, and the meta data repository receives enterprise canonical data model meta data from the enterprise meta data source, and wherein the meta data repository is configured to generate at least one individual system CRUD matrix and an enterprise canonical model CRUD matrix.