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Meta Integration is a proud sponsor of the 2010 Metadata Conference, now renamed "Enterprise Data World (EDW)".
Meta Integration will be part of the exhibits (Tuesday March 16th 2010 from 5pm to 8pm, and the Wednesday 17th from 12:00pm to 3:30pm)
in support of our numerous partners at the conference.
In addition, Christian Bremeau and John Friedrich will present
(Tuesday March 15th from 5pm to 6pm) as part of the
night school
of the conference:
"The Fine Art of Metadata Harvesting"
This presentation details the challenges of metadata
harvesting from various formats, technologies, vendor tools with
emphasis on completeness, scalability, incremental harvesting, and
post-harvesting.
Successful metadata harvesting is key to any
metadata management and enterprise architecture solution. This
presentation dives deeply into the challenges of metadata harvesting
solutions. In particular, emphasis is places on:
- the massive amount of metadata to be derived from old technologies
like COBOL to the latest data integration and business intelligence
technologies
- the ever increasing number of vendors and tools involved in any given
market (e.g., Business Intelligence)
- the increasing levels of competition between vendors (e.g., IBM has
DI/ETL, BI and MM solutions, as does SAP, as does Oracle, etc.)
- the increasing pace of version releases and radical changes from
vendors/tools (and thus the metadata which is available)
- the multiplication of metadata interface technologies C++, Java SDK,
COM base, XML, native
- a vendor's legal rights to various metadata interfaces, formats, etc.
- the need for metadata coverage/completeness, complexity, as well as
parsers and compilers to extract linage from virtually any
transformation language and expression
- the need for scalability to support massive metadata repositories as
sources and incrementally harvest only changes
- the implications which harvesting poses for post harvesting metadata
integration with metadata stitching and metadata version and
configuration management.
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The need for data movement and data integration solutions is driven
by the fact that data is everywhere underneath business applications.
The same applies for metadata: metadata is also everywhere underneath the various tools involved in
database and software development (data & object modeling),
data integration (EAI, ETL, EII), data warehousing, and business intelligence.
Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB)
is the most complete metadata transformation and integration solution on the market.
The strong collaboration with our partners
is allowing MITI to provide an unprecedented level of detailed metadata integration,
covering metadata standards, such as
CWM, and the latest trends from leading ETL, OLAP & BI vendors,
in particular the transformation of expressions from ETL, EII, OLAP and BI tools, opening new doors
for version management driven lineage & impact analysis
in a multi-vendor environment.
MIMB also supports change management and updates of complex metadata, in particular in the filed of business intelligence.
The Metadata Integration (MI) solution is:
- based on the Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) web application enterprise edition
- for: enterprise tool integration, tool forward/reverse engineering on change management, and legacy tool migration
- with: unlimited users, and unlimited (all) import and export bridges
- includes: Automatic Scripting capabilities, Model Browser with Metadata Profiling , Model Subsetter, and Model based Metadata Reporter, Diagram Visualizer, Graphical Lineage Analyzer
Step 1: Import
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Step 2: Subset
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Step 3: Browse
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Step 4: Diagram
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Step 5: Lineage
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Step 6: Export
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MIMB is also available as OEM Metadata Components embeded in popular ETL, BI, MM or modeling tool, or as a metadata harvesting or metadata integration servers.
For example, the MIMB technology has been embedded (OEM) by various software vendors like
CA in data modeling,
Informatica in ETL data integration,
IBM in Business Intelligence, and metadata management solutions.
MIMB offers the largest amount supported tools with the highest level of detailed metadata (click each import or export link for bridge documentation and mapping specifications):
| Live Metadata |
Relational Database via JDBC / ODBC
OLAP Database via ODBO / ADOMD
XML DTDs and Schemas
COBOL Copybooks
more...
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| Data Modeling tools |
CA ERwin Data Modeler
CA Gen (COOL:Gen)
CA COOL:BusinessTeam (GroundWorks)
CA COOL:DBA (Terrain)
CA COOL:Enterprise (ADW)
Embarcadero ER/Studio
IBM Rational Rose Data Modeler & XDE
IBM Rational Data Architect
Oracle Designer
Select SE
Silverrun RDM
Sybase PowerDesigner
Telelogic Popkin System Architect
Visible IE:Advantage
more...
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| Object Modeling tools |
Borland Together
Embarcadero Describe
Gentleware Poseidon
IBM InfoSphere Data Architect
IBM Rational Rose & XDE
IBM Rational Software Architect (RSA)
Microsoft Office Visio
NoMagic MagicDraw
Sybase PowerDesigner OOM
Tigris ArgoUML
more...
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| Data Integration tools |
Composite Software
IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Manager
IBM InfoSphere DataStage
Informatica PowerCenter
IRI CoSORT/SortCL
Knightsbridge CDMA
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Open Text eDOCS DI (Hummingbird) Genio
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB)
SAP BusinessObjects Data Integration
SAS Data Integration Studio
more...
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| Metadata Repositories |
Adaptive Repository
IBM Information Server (Metadata WorkBench)
Informatica Metadata Manager
SAP Business Objects Metadata Management
SAS Metadata Manager
more...
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| Business Intelligence tools |
IBM Cognos 8 and ReportNet
IBM Cognos Series 7 Impromptu
Informatica Data Analyzer
Kalido
Microsoft SQLServer Analysis Services
Microsoft SQLServer Reporting Services
MicroStrategy
Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE)
Oracle Hyperion Essbase Integration Services
SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports
SAP Business Objects Designer
SAP Business Objects Desktop Intelligence
SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence
SAS
more...
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Metadata Management (MM) has considerably evolved from its original Data Dictionary, Data Registry, Data Standardization and Metadata Repository roots.
Today, MM solutions are the critical component behind modern Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Data Governance (DG) initiatives.
Indeed MM is at the heart of Enterprise Information Managament (EIM) solutions, and in fact a key component of any Master Data Management (MDM) initiative.
MM provides the information traceability answers for the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act compliance.
Recently, Gartner has positioned Metadata Management in 4th position of its Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008
(see reports from
ZDnet,
Search CIO,
Manufacturing Computer,
Computer World)
The Metadata Management (MM) solution is:
- based on the Meta Integration® Repository (MIR) web application enterprise edition
- for: data flow and semantic flow with lineage and impact analysis, data governance, data standardization, data dictionary, vocabulary, semantic, ontology, enterprise architecture, life cycle management, change management.
- with: unlimited users, and unlimited (all) import bridges
- includes: Graphical Lineage Analyzer, Business Lineage and Impact Analyzer, Enterprise wide Metadata Search Engine and Reporter, Enterprise Configuration Management, Metadata Stitcher, Metadata Configuration Manager, Automatic and Scheduled Metadata Harvester, Metadata Mapper, LDAP User Integration, Role based business and technical web user interface, Role based Metadata Security Manager.
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The Metadata Versioning (MV) solution is:
- an Add-on to MM/MIR for unlimited enterprise version and configuration management going beyond "just the current production version"
- for: historical configuration analysis of previous versions (Sarbanes-Oxley and BASEL II compliance), configuration planning and integration testing of future versions ("What If" scenarios, Impact of Change, Life-Cycle and Change Management), and enterprise level management of multiple distinct and/or complementary repository metadata configurations
- with: unlimited versioning and repository configurations
- includes: Version Manager, Configuration Version Manager, Version Migrator
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The Metadata Authoring (MA) solution is:
- an Add-on to MM/MIR for authoring metadata or model editing
- for: data governance, data standardization, data dictionary, vocabulary, semantic, ontology definitions
- with: unlimited metadata extensions and methodologies
- includes: Metadata Editor, Extensible Metadata Search Engine and Reporter"
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2009 April, 7th,
Meta Integration is a proud sponsor of the 2009 Metadata Conference, now renamed "Enterprise Data World (EDW)".
Meta Integration is part of the exhibits in support of our numerous partners at the conference.
In addition, Christian Bremeau and John Friedrich present:
"Metadata Integration with Change Management for Popular ETL and BI Tools"
as part of the
metadata track
of the conference.
2008, November 20th,
Popular Business Intelligence
Toolbox for IT bloger
Vincent McBurney (Deloitte Manager)
explains:
"Oracle and Microsoft Join the MITI Metadata Bridge Love In".
2008, November 19th,
Meta Integration presents: "Metadata Integration of Microsoft SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS with Popular Modeling and Design Tools"
on Wednesday November 19th,
and is also a proud sponsor and will provide demos at the exhibits
of the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit 2008
in Seattle (Convention & Trade Center), Washington State.
2008, November 17th,
Meta Integration presents: "Using CA ERwin Modeling for Business Intelligence Design"
at CA World 2008 in Las Vegas (Venitian), Nevada.
2008 March, 16th,
Meta Integration is a proud
sponsor
of the the Wilshire 2008 Meta-Data Conference
and DAMA International Symposium in San Diego, in support of our numerous partners at the conference,
and to provide demos at the exibits.
2007 December, 20th,
Business Objects signs an OEM agreement with Meta Integration to embed the Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) technology within its Metadata Management (MM) solution.
2007 June, 12th,
IBM announces Metadata Workbench for IBM Information Server.
2007 May, 15th,
Kalido partners with Meta Integration Technology to power Business Intelligence with Kalido Universal Information Director™.
2007, March 7th,
Meta Integration participates
in the Wilshire 2007 Meta-Data Conference
and DAMA International Symposium in Boston
2006, August 8th,
CA partners with Meta Integration Technology to optimize use of metadata accross the enterprise.
2006, April 23rd,
Meta Integration participates
in the Wilshire 2006 Meta-Data Conference
and DAMA International Symposium in Denver.
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organizes the largest
vendor panel
on metadata integretion with 14 vendors
(slides).
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presents
best practices
on metadata integration
(slides).
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offers to see your own metadata in the latest tools and lineage demos at the
exibits
2005, December,
DM Review's readers nominated Meta Integration as a company
that provides total quality customer satisfaction
in its December 2005 issue on
Readership Merit Awards.
2005, July 11th,
Embarcadero Technologies and Meta Integration Technology Partner to Deliver Data Model-Driven Metadata Integration Solution
2005 July 11 Press Release
2005, June 27th,
Meta Integration wins the Cognos Technology Partner Of The Year Award
Press Release
2005, February 20th,
SAS announces OEM agreement with Meta Integration: Press Release
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ACM SIGMOD 2005 June 14-16: "Meta-Data Version And Configuration Management In Multi-Vendor Environments"
2005 White Paper
DAMA / Wilshire Meta-Data Conference 2005 May 24-25: "Metadata Based Impact and Lineage Analysis Across Heterogeneous Metadata Sources"
2005 Presentation
CA World 2004: "Metadata Flow in a Multi-Vendor Enterprise Toolset"
2004 Presentation
IBM "DB2 Cube Views Getting Started with Meta Integration"
2003 RedPaper
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