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2003 May 1^st - Press Release

META INTEGRATION ANNOUNCES VERSION 3.1 OF ITS METADATA MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS SUPPORTING MORE ETL AND BI TOOLS, AND IMPROVED ADD-IN CAPABILITIES FOR ITS PARTNERS.

LOS ALTOS, California, May 1^st, 2003 - Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI), a leading provider of data and metadata integration tools, announces version 3.1 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, in particular in the sectors of Business Intelligence (BI), and data Extraction, Transformation, & Load (ETL):

• Business Objects Designer,
• IBM DB2 Cube Views,
• Informatica PowerMart/Center,
• Oracle Warehouse Builder,
• SAS ETL Studio,
• and new versions of the CWM and UML XMI standards.

In addition to providing the new or improved above bridges, MIMB 3.1 also supports numerous new versions of existing bridges, such as CA All Fusion ERwin Data Modeler 4.1, CA Advantage Gen 6.5, NCR Teradata MDS 5.0, and Popkin System Architect 9.

Major security enhancements have been incorporated into MIR/MIW 3.1, in particular with the full encryption of all communications between the MIR Server and its MIW clients, and password encryption within the MIR database.

Finally, the metadata movement solution (MIMB) received significant improvements in order to better integrate with the tools of MITI's partners as a "metadata import/export add-in":

• Improved C++ and Java API to invoke the metadata bridges with support for automatic detection of bridges with their tool tips, and conversion options.
• Added support for internationalization of the bridge names, tool tips, options with descriptions, and produced messages (each bridge support for a given language can be stored in an independent XML file).

ABOUT META INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Incorporated in 1997, Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI) is a privately held company based in Silicon-Valley. MITI is focused on providing tools for metadata and data integration solutions. MITI has established numerous partnerships with leading software vendors, including with Computer Associates (ERwin), IBM DB2 (Cube Views) & Rational (Rose/XDE), Microsoft (SQL Server), NCR (Teradata XML & MDS), Oracle (Warehouse Builder), SAS Institute (ETL Studio), Sun MicroSystems (JavaSoft), and Sybase (PowerDesigner). MITI is involved with several relevant standards, including the Object Management Group (OMG CWM & UML XMI), and the latest HL7 standard for XML based integration in the health care sector. MITI's customers are fortune 500 companies in virtually all vertical markets, as well as numerous government agencies in particular in the health care sector like the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (HSS CMS),