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Metadata Governance Suite : Feature List (continued)

Metadata Management and Governance Features and Functionality

Metadata Management and Governance provides the ability to automatically discover, store, search and distribute metadata to business users and other applications.
Global IDs software provides the following functionality in metadata governance. (More details are available in the Metadata Governance Data Sheet)

# Requirement Available Comments
1 Built-in Metadata Repository
Yes
2 Storage of metadata from structured data sources
Yes
3 Storage of metadata from unstructured data sources Yes
4 Storage of metadata from semistructured data sources No In development (beta). 
5 Ability to search for metadata across the whole landscape
Yes
6 Creation of web-based metadata reports
Yes
7 Predefined and custom queries to metadata repository
Yes
8 Creation of a data dictionary and glossary for critical business data Yes Requires some degree of manual input
9 Ability to create web-services for delivery of metadata
Yes
10 Metadata Exchange with Third Party Applications
Yes

The Global IDs Metadata Governance Suite is notable in the following ways.
  • It can accomplish the above tasks, with a minimum of manual involvement
  • It can scale to extremely complex environments (enterprise or global levels)
  • It can meet these requirements in systematic and repeatable ways