BusinessObjects Metadata Management Features

Integration with BOE platform

Metadata Management XI 3.0 provides a single point of administration across a broad spectrum of deployment scenarios, taking advantage of the BOE platform's security services and scalable platform architecture

• Integration with Central Management Server (CMS)—security services (user, group, and objects rights that defines user and group privileges)
• Integration with Central Management Console (CMC)—Metadata Management is now an application on CMC and it uses the following BOE services:
  • Security for user management and access to integrator sources, source groups, metapedia, and utilities
  • Manages and schedules integrator source runs, and utilities runs

Metapedia—a business metadata encyclopedia

• Implement a business glossary of terms related to your business data
• Organizes terms hierarchically (by subject area or business unit)
• Business terms can be linked to related metadata objects
• Build a standard business vocabulary of words, phrases, or business concepts
• Synonyms and keywords to associate a metadata object with a particular term
• Category and subcategory of terms to denote a common functionality
• Associate terms with more than one category
• Supports data governance, data stewardship, and proactive compliance

Metadata source group analysis

• Group metadata integrator sources (development, testing, production environment)
• View impact and lineage for specific "Source group"

Broader platform support
Platform support beyond Microsoft Windows and Tomcat to include UNIX operating systems (Linux, Solaris, and IBM AIX), as well as other applications servers, such as WebSphere from IBM, Weblogic from Oracle BEA, and Oracle Application Server (OAS)

Tighter integration with InfoView

• Users can see how data was computed and where it come from
• Easy access to metadata for business users:
  • BI users view data lineage for Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence and Crystal within InfoView
  • Or by single sign-on from InfoView into Metadata Management Explorer

Integrate and Consolidate Metadata
Integrate metadata from various databases and enterprise resource planning catalogs, modeling tools, extract, transform, and load (ETL) products, and business intelligence (BI) components (such as BusinessObjects universes).

Track Use Via Metadata Auditing
Analyze data and report usage, data source validation failures, and measure the impact on report performance of data warehouse growth.

Impact Analysis and Data Lineage
Find the relationships between data source targets, universes, and documents, and gain better understanding of the overall data architecture.

Export to BusinessObjects Universe
With various system metadata centralized in the repository, Metadata Manager can export defined metadata into a BusinessObjects universe, accelerating the design process.