2002 April 30^th - Press Release

META INTEGRATION ANNOUNCES VERSION 3.0 OF ITS XML BASED ETL AND META DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE, INTEGRATING MORE TOOLS FROM LEADING VENDORS AS DEMONSTRATED THIS WEEK WITH THE CWM ENABLEMENT SHOWCASE AT THE ANNUAL DAMA / META DATA CONFERENCE IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

LOS ALTOS, California, April 30^th, 2002 – Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI), a leading provider of XML based ETL and metadata management tools, announces version 3.0 of the Meta Integration� Repository (MIR), Works (MIW), and its popular Meta Integration� Model Bridge (MIMB) utility integrating more and more tools from leading vendors, including support for the latest versions of design tools like:

Computer Associates ALL Fusion ERwin Data Modeler 4.1,
Oracle Designer 6i,
Popkin System Architect 8.5,
Sybase PowerDesigner 9.0,
Rational Rose 2002 and export to the new XDE 1.0.

Meta Integration� Works is an ETL (Extract-Transformation-Load) development environment producing and managing XML data movement components. The Meta Integration toolset offers numerous advantages:

Multiple purposes: LDM, DW ETL, EAI, EDI, E-Business, Web Portals, etc.
Multiple technologies: RDBMS, XML, API, (Data Connector SDK)
Generates fast C++ based data movement components for Windows or Unix.
No run-time fees to deploy, no servers to maintain on the operational sites.
Application builders can design, maintain, and generate multi-purpose data movement components to be embedded in their software applications.
Metadata repository driven development environment with support for metadata acquisition, conversion, browsing, comparison, integration, mapping, and sophisticated version & configuration management focused on supporting changes in the enterprise datascape.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 30^th, 2002 – Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI), will be presenting and demonstrating its toolset as part of the OMG CWM enablement showcase at the Annual DAMA / Meta Data Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

The Object Management Group (OMG)'s Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) is gaining momentum, as its core developers and implementors will be demonstrating CWM XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) for the second time. This year's participants are:

Adaptive Repository,
Hyperion Application Builder,
IBM DB2 UDB,
Meta Integration Model Bridge (MIMB) from/to ERwin, Oracle Designer, PowerDesigner, and Rose,
and SAS Data Builder,

MIMB's CWM XMI has also been demonstrated with Acta Works ETL, and Oracle Warehouse Builder.

ABOUT META INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Incorporated in 1997, Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI) is a privately held startup based in Silicon-Valley. MITI is focused on providing tools for data and metadata movement solutions. MITI has established numerous partnerships in both the government and industry sectors, including with the DoD Health Affairs (OSD HA), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (HSS CMS), Computer Associates (ERwin), NCR (Teradata XML & MDS), Rational Software Corporation (Rose), SAS Institute (SAS Data Builder), Sybase (PowerDesigner) and Sun MicroSystems (JavaSoft). MITI is also involved with several relevant standards, including the Object Management Group (OMG) as a domain member (CWM and UML XMI), and the latest HL7 standard for XML based integration in the health care sector.

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2002 April 30th - Press Release

2002 April 30^th - Press Release