SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management software includes numerous features to help you overcome the difficulties of managing metadata from various data sources, technologies, and systems.

Key Features

Integration with the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Platform

SAP Metadata Management provides a single point of administration across a broad spectrum of deployment scenarios, taking advantage of the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise (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) – SAP BusinessObjects 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
• Includes synonyms and keywords to associate a metadata object with a particular term
• Includes categories and subcategories 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 a specific source group.

Broader Platform Support

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

Tighter Integration with InfoView

• Users can see how data was computed and where it originated.
• Enables easy access to metadata for business users – Users can view data lineage for SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence, and Crystal Reports within InfoView or via single sign-on from InfoView into SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management Explorer.

Additional Features

• Integrate and consolidate metadata – Integrate metadata from various databases and enterprise resource planning catalogs, modeling tools, extract, transform, load (ETL) products, and business intelligence (BI) components, such as SAP 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 among data source targets, universes, and documents, and gain a better understanding of the overall data architecture.
• Export to SAP BusinessObjects universe – With various system metadata centralized in the repository, SAP BusinessObjects Metadata Management can export defined metadata into an SAP BusinessObjects universe, accelerating the design process.