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Meta Integration and Capabilities

If you haven't heard of this company, and you're looking for Master Metadata Management, you'll want to check them out. They are a privately held firm based in Silicon Valley, and are OEM'ing their core technology to just about every major vendor out there. That said, they do sell their complete package with all kinds of cool features for a reasonable cost. The business reasons to use their software? Read on - let's try to shed some light on this...

If you're involved in Metadata Implementation, master metadata initiatives or in fact, data management, data administration, change management, of process flows, and other such items, then this tool can fill the bill. Meta Integration (http://www.MetaIntegration.com) is:

a metadata repository that contains versioning, and over 50 different bridges for BOTH import / export of technical metadata. But it goes deeper than that. It manages process metadata, data model metadata, logical metadata, ETL / ELT flow metadata, BI Query and database view metadata, and so on. The bridges can connect to many different tools and pull in the metadata from all of these - and through a process called stitching can overlap the metadata together (where appropriate).

From a business perspective their tool provides drill down and FULL HISTORY DATA LINEAGE from the source to the target, and can provide this lineage across the business, in a web-based browser to the business users. The repository can also handle registries of business metadata information, and allow the business users to maintain copies of the metadata (those who have privileges and access may upload the new metadata to Meta Integration as a new version).

It is quite a tool, it can save time and money by providing PROFILING of the existing FLOW of the data set across the systems involved in data integration, this is a massive time-saving device, even if the tool is not used for metadata management.

Here are a few of the connectivity options it has: ER-Win, Informatica, Ascential, Teradata, Oracle, DB2 UDB, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials, SAS, and so on.

We have built metadata management best practices with roles and responsibilities, business definitions, and execution strategies around their tool. We can really speed up or enhance your data management / data administration and metadata initiatives.

Thanks,
Dan Linstedt

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