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Whether you ship a design tool that needs metadata import and export, or a data catalog that reads every other vendor’s tools for end-to-end lineage, Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI) supplies the underlying components, so your team can focus on your product. Nearly 30 years of building connectors for vendors who compete with each other has made MITI the Switzerland of metadata.
You have the product. MIMB supplies the metadata.
Your software already has an interface, a workflow, and customers who trust it. What it needs is the ability to read an enterprise estate and trace a number back through it.
MIMB licenses components that your own code calls. 400+ connectors reaching from mainframe and COBOL copybooks through Snowflake and Databricks, and the column-level lineage those connectors carry. Your product owns everything the customer sees.
If your product is a development environment:
Design and development tools for data integration, BI, and data modeling need metadata moving in both directions. Import handles tool integration and migration, bringing existing work across from whatever it was built in. Export handles forward engineering, pushing your product’s output into the systems downstream of it.
If your product is a data catalog:
Harvesting is the whole job. MIMB brings metadata in from across the customer’s estate and resolves it into column-level lineage, so your catalog can answer impact analysis questions before a change ships.
You need the product. MIMM supplies it under your brand.
Some vendors have a gap where a data catalog should be and a customer base already asking for one. Building it takes years you'd rather spend elsewhere.
MIMM is a working metadata management application, rebranded as yours. Catalog, lineage, and governance on a shared metadata repository, with the interface already built and tested. Everything MIMB includes sits underneath it.
If the catalog is the product:
MIMM ships as its own application carrying your name, your visual conventions, and your release schedule. Your customers get a catalog they can deploy against a live estate on day one, backed by engineering already running inside other vendors’ products.
If the catalog completes your platform:
Governance and lineage arrive as a module inside the suite you already sell. Customers who own your platform gain catalog capability from the vendor they already bought from, and your roadmap absorbs a category without opening a new engineering front.
Most vendors have already priced out building this in house. The three arguments below are the ones that decide it, and they hold whether you sign MIMB or MIMM.
A connector portfolio grows with every release your customers run. Building in house means staffing parser maintenance forever, against formats that change on someone else's schedule.
When a source platform ships a breaking change, the fix comes to you as a release. Your customers see continuity, and your roadmap keeps the engineers you hired for your own product.
Enterprise estates run legacy and modern side by side. MITI connectors span both, so a deal stops hinging on whether you parse the oldest system in the estate.
These partnerships put MITI connectors, lineage parsing, or a metadata repository inside a commercial product. The end customer sees the partner's brand.
These are coverage relationships. MITI connectors read and write both platforms as first-class targets, with support tracking each new release.
