It didn’t have some of the GUI tricks of competitors or as rich a client experience but excelled at team based profiling. When it comes to profiling tools this one felt to me like a product that was in the middle of the pack. You will find most other major BI and DI vendors. You wont find MITI metadata import brokers for Oracle BI or Oracle ODI or Oracle Warehouse Builder. Not only are Oracle bad at managing their own metadata but they are poor at sharing it with other companies. The notable omission from the MITI list is Oracle. The Meatdata Server comes with all of the metadata brokers from Meta Integration Technologies – there are a lot! ErWin, Cognos, Business Objects, Teradata. SQL parsing and tokenizing – which I’m guessing is a way to drag data lineage out of a obtuse database view with all it’s column renaming and table links – or parsing user-defined SQL inside DataStage jobs.
Row Column Propagation support, extended support for the Enterprise Packs like the Siebel, SAP and Oracle Financials packs, increased integration with Information Analyzer and FastTrack. What is coming: generic metadata objects so you can define an external script or routine. It also shows DataStage job bitmaps and Cognos report bitmaps within the metadata browse tool so you can see the object that supplies the metadata. It comes with column level data lineage – searching for a column and tracking it across products. Filtering capabilities to support a range of high-level or granular views of lineage. Placeholders with lineage to external runtimes.
Workbench 8.1 is a hell of a lot better than 8.0.1, it comes with a new flex user interface. Workbench is a promising tool that is kind of the Google of the Information Server – it lets you search and find just about any metadata hauled into the product and it uses metadata crawlers to trawl through that metadata and find and attach linkages and lineage. So let’s look at the roadmap of the Foundation Tools in more depth. It wasn’t really ready for prime time and a couple of the tools have a makeover for the more robust release 8.1. The first release of these Foundation Tools with a shared repository was version 8.0.1 – a release that was before it’s time. Metadata Reporting – Metadata Workbench.You can’t work out what to do with your data until you know what you’ve got. The “Foundation Tools” are what IBM are spruiking as the first step to working out what the hell to do with all your data. Some vendors like Sybase have combined data integration with data modelling, some like Informatica have ETL, profiling and metadata management with a mapping add on. If IBM were the only vendor with this breadth of tooling then they don’t need to brag about it, people will work it out for themselves if it’s true of distrust IBM if they think it’s false. I really don’t like the “Only IBM” parts of IBM presentations. The Information Server metadata tools have become “Foundation Tools” and IBM are convinced customers will buy them without DataStage: They are so confident that they have appealing metadata tools that they are making it one of the main spokes of the new marketing push for the Information Agenda. Suddenly the metadata tools are telling DataStage what to do. They added FastTrack to join the dots – so you could generate a DataStage job from your metadata. They then acquired Unicorn – the semantic metadata tool to try and pretty it up. IBM delivered the first Information Server after a hell of a lot of tinkering with the innards. This was Operation Make Metadata Appealing. The brave move to place DataStage on top of the metadata so you couldn’t play with the cool kid without inviting the geeky hanger on. Then came the Information Server – the shared metadata repository across all tools.
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The acquisition by Ascential Software and it’s previous incarnation of profiling and metadata management tools. First came the collection of metadata odd fellows. In the olden days, say five years ago, they gave away a copy of MetaStage with each copy of DataStage Enterprise Edition and even then not everyone used it.Ī few things have happened to try and make metadata look cool. You know the old joke that little Johnny was so unpopular that his mum hung a chop around his neck so the dog would play with him. This week it’s the metadata roadmap – the IBM Information Agenda Foundation Tools that IBM hope will differentiate them from other integration vendors.Īpologies for the gaps in this roadmap – it’s hard keeping track of so many products and IBM is justifiably wary of committing to release numbers and release dates.ĭataStage has always been the popular kid in school and metadata has been the hanger on. Last week I posted the DataStage roadmap from the IBM IOD 2008 Conference.
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