METADATA and METACENTER

Challenge
Many companies do not maintain or are in fact not in a position to maintain their metadata in a meaningful and cost effective manner. As a consequence they lack an overview of their corporate data – and remember data is considered an important asset nowadays. Metadata pertains to both business and IT data or both these aspects. Incidentally, this problem is more often than not compounded in the often heterogenous Business Intelligence environment as a consequence of acquiring the "best of breed" products -  that is not all products are supplied by a single vendor. Not exactly an ideal situation for the organisation in terms of metadata management. Tools to tackle this problem have been lacking up until recently. However, some three years ago MetaCenter was launched by Data Advantage Group.

MetaCenter
MetaCenter is the most advanced software for maintaining and retrieving metadata in real-time from divergent repositories and databases. This is all possible with the aid of MetaCenter's propriety ActiveLinx technology. Metadata from for example, Informatica’s PowerCenter repositories, Business Objects repositories and ORACLE databases can be queried in one swoop. And this data can be linked together if so desired thus establishing inter business and inter technical relationships that can be shared throughout the organisation. It is also possible to store and documents of various formats in the repository. The MetaCenter repository itself is extensible. 

Voltaire Consultants are the Benelux distributors of this “next generation” product. Contact us, or log on to the Data Advanage Group website, www.dag.com.