Metadata

Informix XML’s Its Metadata Transport Layer

by M. Reed ... XML's Its Metadata Transport Layer M. Reed - May 22 , 2000 Event Summary. MENLO PARK, Calif. and Westboro, Mass.- April 18, 2000- Informix ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/05/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_05_22_00_1.asp - 8k - 2000-05-22 Summary: Informix® Corporation, has announced an XML Document Type Definition (DTD) for Extraction, Transformation, and Transport (ETT) of metadata. The DTD is designed to allow metadata sharing between different vendors’ products using the open XML standard.

Is There Finally a Metadata Exchange Standard on the Horizon?

by M. Reed ... There Finally a Metadata Exchange Standard on the Horizon? M. Reed - September 28th, 1999 Event Summary. "REDWOOD SHORES, California ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/1999/09/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_9_28_99_1.asp - 9k - 1999-09-28 Summary: On September 27, a group of vendors including Oracle, IBM, Unisys, NCR, and Hyperion Solutions announced the submission of a metadata interchange standard to the OMG standards body. A common approach to metadata would allow products from different vendors to interact, a problem that has vexed customers f

Informatica Conforms to Metadata Standard

by M. Reed ... Conforms to Metadata Standard M. Reed - November 10, 1999 Event Summary. "PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Informatica Corporation ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/1999/11/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_11_10_99_1.asp - 6k - 1999-11-10 Summary: Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), a major extract/transform/load tool vendor, today announced the general availability of MX2 1.6, the latest version of its Metadata Exchange (MX2) application programming interface (API). Informatica bills MX2 1.6 as the first object-oriented metadata exchange faci

Metadata Standards in the Marketplace – Why Do I Care? (And ...

by M. Reed ... Overview. Metadata ("data about data") is essential for data warehousing. ... This is one of the purposes of metadata. Consider 2.5. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/05/research_notes/MN_DW_MFR_05_16_00_1.asp - 18k - 2000-05-16 Summary: Metadata (“data about data”) is essential for data warehousing. Metadata standards allow different products to interact. Without standards, different vendors’ tools cannot work together seamlessly and the customer’s warehousing effort is greatly complicated.

Hummingbird Releases Genio 4.0 With Improved Support for Oracle ...

by M. Reed ... Genio Suite version 4.0 extends Hummingbird's open metadata strategy, by including wizards for importing and viewing Business Objects' Universes and Cognos ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/01/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_01_28_00_1.asp - 6k - 2000-01-28 Summary: Hummingbird Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: 'HUMC' and TSE: 'HUM') has announced the immediate availability of Genio Suite 4.0. This release states improvements to usability, performance and openness to better support organizations as they implement large-scale enterprise data warehousing and e-commerce sol

Datawarehouse Vendors Moving Towards Application Suites

by M. Reed ... vendors announced product suites that they claim offer broader integration between business intelligence, data movement, data cleansing and metadata management ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/1999/09/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_9_29_99_1.asp - 11k - 1999-09-29 Summary: During September, two more data warehousing vendors announced product suites that they claim offer broader integration between different data warehousing technologies. BI vendor Cognos announced 'Cognos platform', a tool to build complete 'BI-ready data infrastructures'. Data Movement vendor Ardent Softw

Now Just Where Did I Put My Search Engine?

by Daniel Oldis ... lies in the double (and sometimes confusing) meaning of the term search when applied to databases: this might mean data, or it might mean metadata (in other ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessIntelligence/2006/05/research_notes/MI_BI_XDO_05_24_06_1.asp - 16k - 2006-05-24 Summary: Barraged with terms like 'structured and unstructured data,' 'enterprise search,' 'federated query,' and 'business intelligence and analytics,' corporate decision makers are awash in ambiguous and overlapping meanings. Making the distinction between metadata and data may reduce the confusion.

Data Advantage Group, Inc

... impact analysis, impact analysis meta data, meta data, meta data meta data repository, meta data repository, meta data repository metadata, metadata, metadata ... http://directory.technologyevaluation.com/profile.aspx?vid=18607 - 2k

Epicor 9: Delivering What Oracle and Others Are Yet to Achieve? ...

... Epicor 9 builds on the approach used in Vantage but extends service-orientation to the client-side, and converts all of the C# code to XML metadata services. ... blog.technologyevaluation.com/.../ - 62k - 2009-08-05

Informatica Morphs into Enterprise Decision Support Vendor

by M. Reed ... In addition, the product contains an open metadata repository, a pipelined, multi-threaded server engine, and a scheduling mechanism. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/01/research_notes/VN_DW_MFR_01_00_1.asp - 17k - 2000-01-01 Summary: Informatica Corporation, long an established vendor in the Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) market space, has morphed themselves into a vendor of solutions for the 'e-Business infrastructure'. In conjunction with their contract to build an enterprise data warehouse for the United States Postal Service and th