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Microsoft

The Microsoft relationship is the longest one Meta Integration has, running from the Microsoft Repository work of 1999 to today's coverage of Power BI, Fabric, Synapse and Purview. It is also the broadest, spanning modeling, integration, warehousing, BI and catalog in a single vendor stack.

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Inside partnership

Meta Integration is part of the <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/">Microsoft developer program</a> and has partnered with the <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/sql-server/">Microsoft SQL Server group</a> since it shipped early support for the Microsoft Repository in 1999.

Data platform

Microsoft — SQL Server and Azure

SQL Server Database, Integration Services, Analysis Services and Reporting Services, alongside Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage and Data Lake Storage.

Metadata management

Microsoft — Microsoft Purview

Bidirectional metadata exchange with the Purview data catalog, so assets harvested elsewhere in the enterprise can be published into Purview and read back out of it.

Business intelligence

Microsoft — Power BI and Microsoft Fabric

Harvesting of Power BI Desktop files, Power BI Report Server, the Power BI service and Fabric Warehouse, with expression parsing that carries lineage through measures and calculated columns.

Partnership milestones

Full press release extracts stay available in the expandable archives.

2007 · March 23

Microsoft - Support for SQL Server Analysis Services with XMLA

Meta Integration version 5.1 added import of BI metadata from XML for Analysis on SSAS, including metadata lineage through queries and calculations. <a href="/Products/MIMB/Specifications/MIRMicrosoftSqlServerXMLAImport.html">Bridge specification</a>.
2007 · June 1

Microsoft - Support for SQL Server Integration Services with DTSX

Meta Integration version 5.2 added import and export of data integration metadata in SSIS package DTSX files, covering data sources, data targets and the data lineage of transformations. <a href="/Products/MIMB/Specifications/MIRMicrosoftSqlServerIsImport.html">Bridge specification</a>.
2007 · June 1

Microsoft - Support for SQL Server Reporting Services and MDX

Meta Integration began development of bridges for <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/reporting-services/">SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)</a> and <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/mdx/">Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)</a>.
2006 · March 28

Microsoft - Support for metadata editing and analysis in Excel

Meta Integration version 5.0 added import and export of modeling, integration and BI metadata with Microsoft Excel, the tool engineers and consultants reach for when they need to capture or edit business and technical metadata by hand. <a href="/Products/MIMB/Specifications/MIRMicrosoftExcelImport.html">Bridge specification</a>.
2006 · April 21

Microsoft - Support for SQL Server Database over JDBC

Meta Integration version 5.0 added support for the native Microsoft SQL Server JDBC driver. <a href="/Products/MIMB/Specifications/MIRJdbcMicrosoftSqlServerImport.html">Bridge specification</a>.
2005 · July 18

Microsoft - Support for SQL Server Analysis Services with DSO

Meta Integration version 4.2 added import of OLAP metadata from the Decision Support Objects COM API on SSAS, including cubes, dimensions and expression parsing for lineage. <a href="/Products/MIMB/Specifications/MIRMicrosoftSqlServerDsoImport.html">Bridge specification</a>.
2004 · March 23

Microsoft - Support for Analysis Services using ADO MD and ODBO

Meta Integration version 4.0 added import of BI metadata from the ActiveX Data Objects Multidimensional and OLE DB for OLAP COM APIs on SQL Server Analysis Services.
2004 · June 5

Microsoft - Microsoft's Bill Baker points to Meta Integration

Asked about the SQL Server 2005 strategy for metadata management and the repository, the head of the Data Warehouse Product Unit referred to Meta Integration in his SQL PASS interview.

Read the newsletter extract

Professional Association for SQL Server, DW and BI Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 5, June 2004.

Coming up in the next couple of months we have interesting interviews planned with Bill Baker and also Christian Bremeau, from Meta Integration.

Bill Baker heads the Data Warehouse Product Unit within the SQL Server product development group. His team designs and develops the Microsoft Analysis Services, Data Transformation Services, Data Mining technologies, the Microsoft Repository, SQL Server Admin tools and Microsoft English Query that ship with Microsoft SQL Server.

2003 · October 24

Microsoft - Support for SQL Server Data Source View

Meta Integration version 4.0 added metadata import and export of SQL Server Data Source View XML files, covering the relational models behind Integration Services and the relational and dimensional models behind Analysis Services. <a href="/Products/MIMB/Specifications/MIRMicrosoftSqlServerDsvImport.html">Bridge specification</a>.
2000 · March 3

Microsoft - Support for SQL Server Meta Data Services

Meta Integration joined the Meta Data Coalition as a contributing member and provided early implementations of the MDC standard for Microsoft Repository version 3.x, known as SQL Server 2000 Meta Data Services.
1999 · July 20

Microsoft - Support for the Microsoft Repository

Meta Integration released Model Bridge v2.3.0 with support for the Open Information Model metamodel and the XML Interchange Format for Microsoft Repository version 2.x, as an early implementer of Microsoft metadata integration. <a href="/Products/MIMB/Specifications/MIRMicrosoftSqlServerRepoXifImport.html">Bridge specification</a>.