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Tibco delivers solution for enterprise-scale management of metadata
By siliconindia
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Monday, 05 May 2003, 19:30 IST
PALO ALTO: Tibco Software Inc. (Nasdaq:TIBX) Monday announced the first solution that gives customers the ability to manage and leverage their investment in XML enterprise metadata.
With the general availability of Tibco XML Canon 2.4, TIBCO extends its lead in offering the industry's most robust and comprehensive solution for enterprise-scale management of XML-based metadata. Tibco's solution to manage and organize XML metadata lays the foundation to support industrial-strength business integration.
Metadata is methodology to describe a piece of data so it can be used and reused throughout an organization. A metadata description might include the data's name, location, perceived importance, quality or value to the enterprise, and its relationship to other data. The challenge is that each application has its own way of describing this data, so, to accurately catalog the relationships between them becomes a daunting task. Getting this right is essential to building a robust information infrastructure. According to Gartner, "The quality, accessibility and organization of a package's metadata will directly affect the cost of implementation, compatibility with an enterprise architecture integration strategy and the life cycle cost of the application."
Tibco has solved this problem by using an industry-standard "canonical" data model that maps each piece of metadata against a central repository or "canon." Any application can use or reuse that metadata without worrying about how it will affect other applications, which ultimately translates into huge savings for enterprise customers.
"This technology is at the core of our strategy for enterprise integration," said Gautham Viswanathan, vice president of product marketing, Tibco Software Inc. "Today, enterprise customers have little means to keep track of and control their metadata used by various applications. Business integration requires systems to track changes and identify system interdependencies. Tibco XML Canon enables users to perform intelligent versioning of metadata across disparate applications."