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The Importance of Metadata
JP MorgenthalChief Architect, Professional ServicesSoftware AG, Inc.
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Challenges Facing Most Organizations
About 80% of the Information Systems in Production Suffer from these Drawbacks:
Require IT assistance for end-user access
Difficult for end users to identify relevant information
Overload of information delivery
Provide only partial answers to questions
Often present out-of-date information
Contain enormous amounts of redundant information
Expensive to develop and maintain
We’re Still Delivering Data, Not Information
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Integration is still #1 issue for the CIO Ranked in Morgan Stanley CIO survey as the #1 problem According to Gartner, 90% of business applications involve integration Integration market is expected to grow 9.8% CAGR
Gartner, August 2003
Imperative need to provide a single view of information “Developing an enterprise view of the customer is one of the primary
requirements of a CRM-based sales and service strategy.”
TowerGroup Research, March 2003
Abundance of monolithic, mission-specific, silo systems “More than 90% of enterprise applications in production are monolithic. Their
business logic is not externally accessible in a modular form that allows easy reuse in other applications.”
Gartner, The Agile Enterprise, October 2003
Inability to effectively aggregate data "I feel like we are missing a major opportunity because our systems aren't
integrated. We have to do a ton of custom coding right now, and unfortunately no one has shown us a solution that doesn't ask us to change our business model to fit the package."
Insurance Company, Forrester Research
The Analyst View
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If we knew then what we know now…
How would your systems look if 20 years ago you knew what you know now
DataData
BusinessRule
BusinessRule
BusinessRule
BusinessRule
BusinessRule
BusinessRule Composite
Application
CompositeApplication
CompositeApplication
CompositeApplication
EMREMR
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Enterprise Metadata RepositoryThe 3 Faces
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Moving From Data to Knowledge
Business Rules
Transformation
Mainframe Data
CRM Data
Accounting & Financial
Data
Mainframe DataRaw Data
Knowledge
Aggregation
Filtering
Information
Information
Information
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Significantly improve the ROI of integration infrastructures
XML
Unlock Legacy for seamless participation in modern architecture
New and Packaged
Applications
Back Office
.NETJ2EEPackaged AppsWeb Services
Legacy Applications
Cobol CICS, IMSNatural, 3270Mainframe, Unix, AS400
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EII Methodology
On-demand business views give instant access to enterprise information
• Instant access to enterprise information• Quick and easy definition of Business Vocabulary•Systematic mapping of Business terms to data sources
• Speed implementation & reduce cost• Quick and easy transformation into services•Manages the mix of technology adoption
•Incremental Approach to an integrated enterprise•Flexible IT environment that leads to business agility•Fast, simplified, cost-effective integration•Reduces dependence on proprietary technologies
Front OfficeInternet
Intranet
Mobile
Forms
AnalysisTools
Sales ForceAutomation
Unlock Data Deliver Views
Align Information
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Types of Metadata
Business Taxonomy A categorical organization of the business semantics
Physical Data Asset Inventory The metadata that comprises existing data sources and applications Mappings Data management models
E/R, OLAP, Transformations, XML Schemas, etc. Web Services metadata
Business Process Metadata Definitions of the rules that the business operates under
Metadata Relationships How the metadata relates to other metadata components
