MIMM OEM Partner

SAP

SAP is the widest single-vendor footprint in the Meta Integration catalog, reaching from ERP tables in S/4HANA through Data Services jobs and BW models out to the Web Intelligence report a controller opens on Monday morning. The relationship arrived through two acquisitions, Business Objects and Sybase, and both partnerships predate them.

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Inside partnership

Business Objects signed the OEM agreement in December 2007 for its metadata management product. Sybase certified the PowerDesigner integration in 2001. SAP now owns both.

Data platform and ERP

SAP — SAP HANA and the SAP data estate

HANA Database, BW/4HANA, S/4HANA, ECC and R/3 ERP, SAP Datasphere, Data Services, NetWeaver Master Data Management and Sybase ASE.

Data modeling

SAP — SAP PowerDesigner

Conceptual, logical, physical, object oriented and XML schema models, all readable and writable through Model Bridge since the original Sybase certification in 2001.

Business intelligence and governance

SAP — SAP BusinessObjects

Information Steward, the BusinessObjects repository, the Universe Information Design Tool and Designer, Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence and Crystal Reports.

Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) inside

Partnership milestones

Full press release extracts stay available in the expandable archives.

2007 · February 5

SAP - Technology partner agreement renewed

Business Objects and Meta Integration renewed their technology partner agreement.
2007 · December 20

SAP - Business Objects OEM agreement

Business Objects signed an OEM agreement with Meta Integration to embed Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) within its metadata management product.
2005 · October 1

SAP - Technology partner agreement signed

Business Objects and Meta Integration signed a technology partner agreement.
2001 · June 11

SAP - Sybase and Meta Integration open the door for metadata exchange

Joint testing certified that Model Bridge could convert models from virtually any vendor's design tool into Sybase PowerDesigner, giving PowerDesigner buyers a migration path off their existing modeling investments.

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Sybase and Meta Integration open the door for metadata exchange

Sybase, Inc., Emeryville, Calif., June 11, 2001. Extract reproduced with acknowledgement of Sybase's copyright.

Synopsis

Joint testing conducted by Sybase, Inc. and Meta Integration Technology, Inc. has certified that their design-tool software products work together.

  • Sybase® PowerDesigner® software provides analysts and designers with combined data and object modeling techniques.
  • Meta Integration®'s Model Bridge (MIMB) software lets customers convert metadata models from virtually any vendor's design tool software to Sybase's PowerDesigner.
  • Customers that have invested in modeling tools and have gathered significant quantities of metadata can now easily convert all their metadata to PowerDesigner.
Christian Bremeau, Meta Integration's CEO, said "We are proud to add Sybase PowerDesigner to the growing list of supported tools for our Meta Integration® Model Bridge product. Metadata is everywhere, underneath data and object modeling tools as well as within the repositories of the ETL, DW, and EAI products. This new bi-directional bridge provides Sybase PowerDesigner with support for both legacy metadata migration and metadata integration, as needed in today's multi-vendor, business intelligence and knowledge-management environments."

Dimitri Volkmann, Sybase product marketing manager, said, "Sybase's partnership with Meta Integration means that corporations will not be forced into investing in separate design tools. PowerDesigner covers the multiple modeling techniques needed to describe business systems, including databases, UML, and business process modeling. With Meta Integration's products, customers can now take full advantage of PowerDesigner by migrating existing metadata. They can then focus on one design tool."

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