A Dynamic Landscape
The demand for systems to deliver flexible solutions is ever-increasing due to the dynamic nature of modern commerce. Business requirements and their underlying processes are in a constant state of change as organizations react to heightened competition, changing regulatory environments, and evolving customer needs. In an attempt to gain a competitive advantage, today’s businesses need to garner vital data from new and existing systems to effectively make essential strategic decisions. Invariably, this requires business and IT professionals to proactively share information and demands that IT infrastructures evolve appropriately, adjusting to changing needs in a cost-effective manner.

There are a number of ways for organizations to effectively manage these demands. First, IT assets must be cataloged, documented, and cross-referenced throughout the enterprise. This produces a comprehensive resource for tracing the impact of proposed changes and promotes reuse while weeding out costly system redundancies and under-utilized components. Second, specific IT assets must be related back to the business processes they support in order for IT professionals to efficiently react to continually evolving requirements. Finally, this vital information must be accessible to all members of the organization, providing a unified view of the associations between business and technical assets while stimulating collaboration.

Capture, analyze and manage the knowledge represented in your corporate information systems.

The MetaCenter Platform empowers companies to address these requirements by integrating real-time ActiveLinx interfaces, a standards-based repository model, and an easy-to-use web-based portal. Patent-pending ActiveLinx technology constructs a real-time catalog of the meta data stored in distributed IT applications, ensuring the currency and accuracy of the information accessed. The MetaCenter Repository delivers a standards-based model that provides organizations the flexibility necessary to quickly and easily capture custom information assets and associate them to their underlying physical IT systems. All of this information is accessible through the web-based MetaCenter Portal, bridging the gap between business and IT professionals by providing a uniform medium for publishing and collaborating in the management of enterprise information assets.

"Data Advantage Group brings a fresh, modern perspective to the world of enterprise Meta Data Management."

Bill Inmon - ‘The Father of Data Warehousing’
President, Inmon Enterprises

MetaCenter’s Hybrid Architecture
In the early days of information asset management, the market called for a single centralized repository for enterprise-wide technical assets. However, due to the complexity and rigid frameworks of these types of solutions, the high cost to implement and maintain these systems made achieving an acceptable rate of return on invesent (ROI) difficult. Today’s organizations are looking to gain more value from their information assets, requiring more flexible solutions to support both short-term value-added programs and longer-term enterprise-wide initiatives.

MetaCenter’s hybrid architecture delivers a revolutionary approach to information asset management. The MetaCenter Platform integrates a plug-and-play, real-time application catalog and a standards-based, customizable repository model. 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). The MetaCenter Repository is built upon a flexible model for defining a myriad of custom information assets and capturing information from flat file and CWM/XMI sources.

The MetaCenter Platform integrates ActiveLinx and MetaCenter Repository information assets into a unified view via the easy-to-use, web-based MetaCenter Portal. Through this portal, power users can customize the repository, manage security, and model relationships between any assets accessible through the platform.

Business and technical end users can leverage the portal for searching, conducting impact analysis, understanding cross-organizational traceability, generating reports and collaborating with their colleagues. Regardless of the scope of an initiative, the MetaCenter hybrid architecture can flexibly accommodate the needs of an organization in a cost-effective manner while quickly delivering value.

Take the first step towards a successful meta data initiative with MetaCenter – the only plug and play, real-time meta data solution.

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"MetaCenter is a truly unique product offering. It's innovative approach of real-time interfacing sets it apart from legacy repository products."

Adrienne Tannenbaum - 'Leading Authority in Meta Data Management' & President, Database Design Solutions