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IBM Metadata Workbench provides visual Web-based exploration of metadata generated and used by IBM Information Server. It improves business trust in information and increases IT responsiveness by tracing and maintaining the relationship paths of information throughout an integration lifecycle. - Allows you to explore and analyze technical metadata about sources of data, business metadata for data meaning and usage, and operational metadata that describes what happens within the integration process itself.
- Visually depicts these relationships from the sources of information to the places where information is actually used—even across different tools and technologies.
- Outlines the complete lineage of fields from applications, reports or data warehouses back to source systems, including what types of processing were performed on them along the way.
- Seamlessly blends design and operational metadata to see where it comes from, how it was derived, and how it was changed. This is vital for addressing key regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II.
- Allows IT staff to assess the full impact of any system change before the change is made – even when the impact spans across different tools. For example, it would show the Business Intelligence report fields that would need to be changed if a source table were changed.
- Allows project teams to manage metadata within IBM Information Server and related technologies – allowing guided ad hoc queries, search, and visual navigation through the metamodel, and allowing metadata to be manually edited where appropriate.
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