ActiveLinx - The Secret to Distributed Meta Data Management

MetaCenter is unique in its ability to allow meta data to be easily managed across distributed systems in real-time. This provides an order of magnitude increase in the Return on Invesent (ROI) over competing technologies. This is accomplished using ActiveLinx, a patent pending technology for real-time access to meta data in third party applications. ActiveLinx also permit the creation of persistent relationships between meta data objects across multiple applications, platforms and development tools. This allows interdependencies and interrelationships to be modeled and maintained across applications without the need to map (or load) these systems into an physically separate meta data repository structure. With ActiveLinx, MetaCenter is the only solution that can provide the capability for true 'plug and play' meta data management.

MetaCenter - The Only 'Third Generation' Meta Data Management Solution

How to document and access the contextual and relational information across semantically incompatible information systems is an age old problem. The first attempts to provide a method for managing these issues involved developing file based data dictionary systems. These systems promised to allow for a degree of standardization and reuse of common terms and data definitions across the enterprise. However, the effort involved with establishing a data dictionary and keeping it current proved to be difficult and impractical for many organizations. With the emergence of relational databases came the 'second generation' meta data management solution, the centralized meta data repository (in principal a meta data warehouse). This provided a less passive system for meta data access and some automation of the loading of data from these multiple sources. However these solutions still proved to be expensive and difficult to develop and sustain over time. Because they still required contin ous synchronization and re-population of meta data definitions, vendors in this market helped to make them more manageable by restricting what meta data would be loaded and mapped into the centralized repository. Many of these implementations were underutilized or simply abandoned due to the cost involved in their maintenance and the difficulty in keeping them current across a continuously changing system environment.

MetaCenter is the first 'third generation' meta data management solution, which allows meta data to be managed across distributed systems. MetaCenter's patent pending ActiveLinx technology permits an organization to manage all their meta data regardless of its location. This allows organizations to solve the needs of the real-time distributed enterprise by deploying a hybrid meta data management strategy - meta data can be left in applications and managed remotely or consolidated and managed centrally in MetaCenter. MetaCenter represents a paradigm shift in the ability for organizations to successfully manage their meta data and maximize the return on invesent from their technology infrastructure.

MetaCenter is unique in its ability to allow meta data to be easily managed across distributed systems in real-time.