Metadata Management

Informatica has some technical metadata functions and reports in the PowerCenter product to support ETL development. In addition Informatica has the Metadata Manager and the Metadata Exchange Option.

In 2003 Informatica launched the SuperGlue metadata management solution for additional metadata capabilities. It is a web based solution for assembling, visualizing and analyzing metadata from various enterprise systems.

In 2005 Informatica launched PowerCenter Advanced Edition that came bundled with SuperGlue. With the release of PowerCenter 8 Advanced Edition the SuperGlue name is gone and the product is now known as Metadata Manager and is only available in this product bundle.

Informatica offers a PowerCenter option called Metadata Exchange that uses a wizard driven interface to import source definitions into PowerCenter. It provides more descriptive metadata and some metadata synchronization functions for when source metadata definitions change.

It offers a combination of bi-directional and uni-directional exchange of metadata to products such as ERwin, Oracle Designer, Cognos Impromptu and Business Objects Designer.