Features

The Only Product that Provides Plug and Play, Real-Time Information Asset Management

• A Real-Time, Unified View of Distributed Information Assets; including Business Intelligence, Database, Data Modeling, Data Integration and Data Quality Applications

Easy to Use for Both Business and Technical Users

• Intuitive, Web-based User Interface
• Dashboard-Driven Interface Captures Commonly Referenced Reports, Search Queries and Information Assets
• Integrated and Searchable On-Line Help System

Full Internationalization and Localization Support

• Multi-byte Support for Asian Languages and Full Unicode/UTF-8 Support
• Customize MetaCenter’s Web-Based Interface to Display in Local Language

Prepackaged Customizable Information Asset Templates Based on Best Practices

• Data Dictionary
• Corporate/Regulatory Standards
• Business Rules & Requirements
• Business Processes
• Corporate Policies and Procedures
• Technical Infrastructure
• Human Resources

Flexible Administrative Functionality and Security

• Data Stewards and System Administrators Manage and Administer the MetaCenter Environment via the Web-Based Portal
• Robust User and Information Security
  • User and Group Management
  • Feature Level Privilege Management
  • Customizable Object and Attribute Level Permissions to Restrict/Grant Access to Sensitive Information

Powerful Real-Time & Cross Application Analytics

• Real-Time Application Catalog - All application- specific information is provided in real-time to ensure its currence and accuracy
• Advanced Search Capabilities – Speed discovery of distributed information assets by using a robust search engine
• Impact Analysis – Understand cross-organizational traceability and the impacts of proposed changes to systems across the enterprise
• Data Lineage Analysis – Understand the source and destination of data as it flows through your applications
• Mapping View Analysis – Uncover how data elements are transformed as they move through systems
• Reporting – Create, share, publish and reuse custom reports

Modern Standards-Based Architecture

• 100% Java, Web-Based Three-Tier Architecture
• Compliant with Object Management Group’s (OMG) Meta-Object Facility (MOF) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) standards
• Support for XML Metadata Interchange (CWM/ XMI)
• Runs on non-proprietary relational databases

Benefits

Real-Time Information Asset Management
Patent-pending ActiveLinx technology empowers organizations to point the MetaCenter Platform at distributed IT applications and leverage their meta data in real-time without having to create and maintain cumbersome synchronization routines, speeding time to production while decreasing total cost of ownership (TCO).

End-to-End Meta Data Management
MetaCenter’s meta data management capabilities assist organizations with managing their corporate information assets through the provision of consistent and accurate contextual and relational information across the organization. Implementing a distributed approach to meta data management ensures that users may access all required system information easily, effectively and with minimal operational overhead.

Superior Return on Invesent
As the first solution to address the needs of the distributed real-time enterprise, MetaCenter represents a pragmatic, cost-effective alternative for organizations who strive to successfully manage their meta data and maximize the return on invesent from their technology infrastructure. By empowering technical and business users to collaborate in analyzing and efficiently managing the knowledge represented in their corporate information systems, organizations benefit through improvements in employee productivity, elimination of duplicative work, institutionalization of knowledge and standards and a reduction in operational risk.

Modern Intuitive Interface
The MetaCenter Platform includes a dashboard-driven user interface where business and technical users feel equally comfortable. The intuitive and easy-to-use interface introduces best in class usability to meta data management and minimizes end user training requirements.

Beneficiaries

Business Users

• Collaborate to institutionalize knowledge
• Discover structured and unstructured enterprise-wide information via a unified view
• Analyze the context of information through cross-organisational traceability
• Publish standards to drive corporate / regulatory compliance
• Bridge the gap between business processes
  and specific IT assets

Technical Users

• Automatically publish the information stored in self-documenting development tools in real-time via the web
• Relate specific IT assets back to the associated business processes they support
• Proactively analyze the impact of a change to the business upon specific system components
• Leverage cross-organizational visibility to minimize redundancy and promote reuse
• Document development lifecycle processes

Customer Proven
MetaCenter has a proven global track record with large and diverse clients, such as The Hanover Insurance Group, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, China Mobile, China Telecom, Kroger and VW Credit.