Tools & Vendors

Global enterprises spend over $60 billion per year on integration and maintenance of enterprise applications and content management systems. At the same time, the volume of data and content these systems must distribute and manage is increasing at an exponential rate. The result is a brittle network of corporate systems and fractured content silos that stifle the ability of the organization to assimilate new processes and access and distribute key information assets.

These systems must have agreement on the meaning of enterprise terminologies and their interrelationships to exchange and distribute information. In the past, there was no way to centrally manage and maintain these terms and relationships on an enterprise-wide basis. Businesses are now realizing the importance of deploying new solutions to manage enterprise terminologies and interrelationships in a systematic fashion and ensure robust integration of complex business and content management systems.

At SchemaLogic, we refer to these terms and interrelationships as the “business semantics” of the enterprise. SchemaLogic Enterprise Suite provides a framework that enables companies to model the structures and relationships of the business semantics that define corporate knowledge and content. We facilitate dynamic changes to the business semantics model through a Web-based governance and collaboration process that enables participation across organizational, corporate and industry boundaries and facilitates the development of business semantics in a dynamic, constantly changing environment.

SchemaLogic Enterprise Suite allows organizations to deploy new business models by accelerating information access and delivery. SchemaLogic customers reduce operational costs through better information management, increased data quality and more agile, intelligent business decisions.

Data Advantage Group is a leading provider of best-in-class information asset management solutions designed specifically for the distributed real-time enterprise. Data Advantage Group’s MetaCenter Platform is the first practical solution to provide a clear and unambiguous definition and history of the data and standards organizations rely upon when running their businesses.

For over five years, Data Advantage Group has been consistently delivering value to its customers through the MetaCenter Platform. MetaCenter’s design is driven by the specific needs of Data Advantage Group’s customers for a real-time distributed meta data management solution. The goal from the onset was to create the first third generation solution to provide “End-to-End Meta data Management and Analytics” for the distributed enterprise.

MetaCenter
MetaCenter provides a single window into complex information systems, unlocking the contextual and relational information stored in business intelligence, database, data integration, data quality and data modeling applications. The MetaCenter Platform seamlessly integrates these components based on a suite of best practices for managing and creating knowledge bases. Business processes and corporate standards can be documented and seamlessly linked to the technical data underlying their execution. This empowers technical and business users to efficiently collaborate while analyzing and managing the knowledge represented in their corporate information systems. Organizations benefit through dramatic improvements in employee productivity, elimination of duplicative work, institutionalization of knowledge and standards, and a substantial reduction in operational risk.

Adaptive Metadata Manager™
 
Adaptive Metadata Manager™ (MM) is a web-based repository that is designed for use in metadata management and provides the capability to capture the data definitions from data modeling tools, relational databases, XML Schemas, COBOL copybooks, and other sources, and the detail of the transformations that occurred – for example loaded from definitions in extract-transform-load (ETL) tools.

The metadata captured from all these sources is managed in a role-based environment that provides each metadata role (data modeler, report developer, business user, data steward …) with exactly the capabilities and access privileges that are appropriate for their needs. Adaptive MM facilitates governance, compliance and transparency of the metadata management process. It is used to:

Manage a large amount of disparate technical and business metadata, providing different end-to-end views to a variety of user roles Collaborate on updating and managing the information, facilitate re-use, and manage change, especially through future planning of different scenarios and timescales Construct end-to-end visualizations of the information flows from any point (e.g. origin, final report, any intermediate point), in a form suitable for both business and technical users