Vincent McBurney, consultant and solution architect, "Tooling Around on the IBM Information Server", posted June 16, 2007. Extract reproduced with acknowledgement of Information Technology Toolbox, Inc.'s copyright.

Many DataStage 7 sites have a shrink wrapped version of MetaStage that they never got running, there is another set who have it but are frustrated at the lack of support for new versions of ErWin and BI products, there are another set who installed and configured it but didn't commit the support staff to keep it going. The Metadata Workbench on the other hand is easier to install as the Metadata Server is already running, it has more metadata import options via the embedded Meta Integration Technology, Inc. bridges and brokers and it is easier to use thanks to the Unicorn additions, the shared repository and the browser interface.

So MetaStage owners get a far superior metadata management and reporting tool for no additional license fees.

IBM United States Software Announcement 207-133, June 12, 2007. Extract reproduced with acknowledgement of IBM's copyright.

At a glance

Metadata Workbench offers:

• Complete traceability of information across tools, allowing data elements in reports to be traced back to their sources or even back to their original data models
• Responsiveness to change by providing an understanding of the impact of any change to any piece of information across tools, showing which reports, services, or target databases will be impacted before a source data element is changed
• A complete set of reporting, management, and administrative functions for metadata elements within IBM WebSphere Metadata Server

Overview

Metadata Workbench offers key metadata visualization and exploration capabilities, acting as a control station for metadata within IBM Information Server. It provides cross-tool impact analysis and data lineage, and extensive reporting and administration functions for WebSphere Metadata Server.

The concept of trusted information necessitates a complete understanding of the lineage and validity of information.

IBM announcement, Armonk, NY, March 22, 2006. Extract reproduced with acknowledgement of IBM's copyright.

IBM today announced the availability of IBM Rational Data Architect, a new enterprise data modeling and integration design tool to help data architects more easily design anything from a simple relational database to a complex federated database.

Rational Data Architect goes beyond traditional data modeling to provide unique discovery and mapping capabilities across the enterprise, enabling application developers, database administrators and enterprise information integration developers to easily understand their existing heterogeneous data assets and how they are related.

Cognos, Global Partner Summit at Cognos Forum, Orlando, June 27, 2005.

Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced the winners of its 2005 Global Partner Awards. Cognos is honoring close to a hundred Cognos partners across North America, Latin America, and Europe that have excelled at innovation, influence, and thought-leadership.

Technology Partner of the Year: Recognizes the leading Cognos partner that provides products, services, and technology expertise that help our customers improve and direct corporate performance. The Cognos Technology Partner of the Year is Meta Integration.

Silicon Valley, California and Burlington, Massachusetts, September 10, 2003.

This new OEM agreement provides Cognos ReportNet with an integrated metadata import and export solution for popular third party modeling tools, as well as the OMG CWM metadata standard.

"We recognized the importance of providing a development environment for Cognos ReportNet which is well integrated in the existing enterprise toolset. Maintaining all the necessary metadata integration bridges can be very time consuming and expensive, and requires the collaboration with many vendors. Meta Integration had already built the most powerful and extensive set of metadata bridges, and has established excellent relationships with all vendors. This OEM agreement allows our users to benefit from this remarkable level of integration, which kept our engineering resources focused on the core Cognos ReportNet development," said Peter Griffiths, senior vice president, products, Cognos.

"We are very excited by this partnership with Cognos, it demonstrates well our leadership as a metadata component provider to major software vendors in the area of database modeling, ETL, EAI, OLAP, business intelligence and reporting tools. The Cognos ReportNet development team did an excellent job of implementing a friendly user interface on top of our metadata movement components, providing a seamless integration to their Cognos ReportNet Framework Manager users," said Christian Bremeau, Meta Integration's president and CEO.

IBM United States Software Announcement, May 13, 2003. Extract reproduced with acknowledgement of IBM's copyright.

Db2 Cube Views creates a unique OLAP platform based on open standards that allows BI application tools to connect easier, deploy faster, and perform better than before.

Numerous vendors have already signed on to support this new, open BI platform from IBM. Ascential Software, Brio, Business Objects, Cognos, IBM OLAP Server, Kalido, Microstrategy, and Rocket Software state they are developing a bridge for Db2 Cube Views. Also, Meta Integration Technology, Inc., is developing new bidirectional bridges integrating Db2 Cube Views with over 40 existing metadata bridges for:

• Data modeling tools like CA AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler
• Object modeling tools like Rational Rose®
• ETL tools like Informatica PowerCenter
• BI tools like BusinessObjects and Cognos
• Metadata repositories and standards like the OMG CWM and UML XMI

Meta Integration press release, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 29, 2000. Original release .

Meta Integration today announces availability of version 2.4.4 of the Meta Integration™ Model Bridge (MIMB), a solution for legacy data migration and metadata integration for Rational Software Corporation's Rose 2000E visual modeling product.

"Meta Integration Model Bridge can solve the problem of migrating legacy metadata to Rose Data Modeler from virtually any data modeling tool," said Eric Naiburg, Rose Data Modeler product manager at Rational. "Giving our customers a way to migrate from other tools to Rose will allow them to start using Rose for database design while not losing the investment in data modeling they have already made."

"With over 20 bridges, MIMB is the most complete metadata movement solution on the market," said Christian Bremeau, CEO of Meta Integration.