MIMM OEM Partner

IDERA

ER/Studio has carried Meta Integration technology since the 2004 OEM agreement with Embarcadero. Model Bridge is what lets an ER/Studio user pull a BI model, an ETL mapping or an XML schema into the tool and see it as a data model, and what drives the lineage in Enterprise Team Edition.

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Inside partnership

Embarcadero signed the original OEM agreement in January 2004. IDERA acquired Embarcadero in 2015 and carries the partnership forward.

Lineage

IDERA — ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition Data Lineage

Source to target lineage across the tools that ER/Studio models, built on the same harvested metadata.

Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) inside
Metadata exchange

IDERA — ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition MetaWizard

MetaWizard is the ER/Studio metadata exchange utility. It reads and writes more than 30 forms of enterprise metadata and presents them as a traditional data model.

Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) inside
Data modeling

IDERA — ER/Studio Data Architect

Logical and physical data modeling with bidirectional metadata import and export to the modeling, ETL and BI tools around it.

Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) inside

Partnership milestones

Full press release extracts stay available in the expandable archives.

2015 · October 7

IDERA - IDERA announces intent to acquire Embarcadero

<a href="https://www.idera.com/about/news/pressreleases/2015/idera-announces-intent-to-acquire-embarcadero">IDERA announced</a> the acquisition of Embarcadero, expanding its position in the database management and developer tools markets. ER/Studio and the Meta Integration partnership moved with it.
2005 · July 11

IDERA - Embarcadero and Meta Integration announce the partnership

The two companies announced a data model driven metadata integration solution, with ER/Studio gaining bidirectional interfaces to the leading BI environments of the day and to CWM.

Read the press release extract

Embarcadero Technologies, San Francisco, Business Wire, July 11, 2005.

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: EMBT), a leading provider of data lifecycle management solutions, today announced a partnership with Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI), an industry leader in metadata integration, to deliver a data model driven metadata integration solution. Through this partnership, Embarcadero ER/Studio® offers bidirectional import and export interfaces to business intelligence query and reporting tools for the industry's leading BI environments, including Business Objects, Cognos, DB2 Cube Views, and Hyperion, as well as key industry standards such as CWM and other XML-based schemas.

"The seamless flow between model-managed metadata and metadata residing in business intelligence repositories is now a reality," said Tommy Eunice, worldwide product manager for DB2 Business Intelligence at IBM. "By combining these two solutions, you quickly eliminate the once painful and costly metadata massaging tasks our customers faced when integrating metadata from disparate sources."

"The partnership between Meta Integration Technology and Embarcadero has grown out of mutual respect for our technologies, successful use of our stand-alone products at various customer sites, and demand by our mutual customers for a more tightly integrated solution," said Christian Bremeau, president and CEO, Meta Integration Technology, Inc.

"The practical uses of data models are no longer limited to generating SQL to create databases," said Greg Keller, vice president of product management at Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. "Enterprises are using data modeling solutions to implement enterprise data architectures and data governance solutions."

Key benefits cited in the release

  • Visualization of over 30 forms of enterprise metadata as a traditional data model
  • Reduction in complexity and costs associated with system integration
  • Timely and accurate information from applications that rely on metadata
  • Accurate and up-to-date definitions, standards, and locations for enterprise applications and processes that use metadata
  • Transformation of metadata sources so that they can be used in multiple business application processes
  • Further leverage of ER/Studio in business repositories and other data environments across an organization
2004 · January 1

IDERA - Embarcadero OEM agreement

Embarcadero signed an OEM agreement with Meta Integration to embed Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) within its ER/Studio data modeling products, for metadata import and export and tool integration.