Informatica Metadata Manager

Know your data

Informatica Metadata Manager allows business and IT users to collect and view detailed information in a central catalogue about data flows and data dependencies across systems and processes.

Metadata Manager is an integral part of Informatica PowerCenter (Advanced Edition) and provides a visual map of how data moves through the enterprise with full drill down capabilities. Coupled with a Business Glossary to facilitate a common understanding of metadata, Metadata Manager also enables the comprehensive analysis of the impact of change from both a business and IT perspective.

Agile Solutions can help your business with everything you need to catalogue and view your data using Informatica Metadata Manager.

Product features

Integration Metadata Catalogue

• Central repository containing metadata and links from a wide range of sources, including:
  • DBMS e.g. Oracle, DB2, SQLServer, Netezza
  • Modelling Tools e.g. Erwin, ERStudio, Rational Rose, Oracle Designer
  • Integration Processes e.g. Informatica PowerCenter
  • Enterprise Applications e.g. SAP R/3
  • Mainframe Systems e.g. DB2/zOS
  • BI Tools e.g. Business Objects, Cognos, Microstrategy
• Customisable views for enhanced metadata exploration
• Tailor preferences and favourites to focus only on the information required

 Agile Solutions can advise on the full range of connectivity supported by Metadata Manager

Business Glossary

• Create and manage a common glossary of business terms and definitions
• Organise business terms into categories relevant to you organisation
• Visualise the data flows and relationships linked to the business terms
• Manage the definitions of valid values and business rules for reuse in data integration projects
• Business-friendly user interface
• Central administration control over configuration and monitoring metadata services and the business glossary

 End-to-End Data Lineage

• Dynamic, visual map of data flows and dependencies across all systems and processes
• Drill down to the field level to understand where data comes from, how it is transformed and where it is delivered to
• Access data profiling results to better understand underlying data at various points in the data lineage

 Comprehensive Impact Analysis

• Analyse to the field level the dependencies between data stores and understand how and where the data integration solutions uses them
• Create an audit trail to establish how organisational change impacts the data

 Reporting

• Asset inventory reporting on metadata and metamodels enable the location of data and integration process assets for the purposes of data discovery and audit reporting