o ARCHITECTURE & TECHNOLOGY:
- 100% Java delivery and installation allowing support for Windows as well as Linux/Unix deployments.
· The Metadata Management Server (MIMM) can now be installed on Unix/Linux variations.
· The Metadata Harvesting Agent (MIMB bridges) can be installed:
§ Locally (co-located with a MIMM server on Linux) to run 100% java based bridges including JDBC database bridges (Oracle, Teradata, DB2, SQL Server, etc.), big data bridges (Hadoop Hive, HCatalog), and other popular bridges such as CA ERwin xml, Informatica PowerCenter xml, Tableau BI, etc.
§ Remotely on a Windows machine for C++ based bridges and COM API based bridges requiring software SDK running on Windows such as CA ERwin native (.erwin) files, and many BI tools like SAP BO Universe, Microstrategy, QlikView, etc.
- 100% HTML 5 (no more Flash) and tablet friendly look & feel, allowing to run on Mac, Tablets, and more
- Metadata Explorer Customization to offer a better experience to targeted business users of the customer company:
· Customize headers, company logos, menus, search categories, home page (with search widgets), automatic opening of reports (BI portal experience, BI report documentation (adding BG terms)
- Improved Metadata Explorer Search Performance
- Improved Data Integration (DI/ETL/ELT Import Bridge) Harvesting Performance
· Now offering detailed DI data flow lineage analysis on demand only (in real time), instead of pre-calculating even if unused
o METADATA AUTHORING:
- Improved DATA STORE DOCUMENTER (PHYSICAL DATA MODEL):
· Live harvesting and automatic update (with version management) from popular RDBMS or big data hadoop data store
- Common Data Modeling Capabilities:
· Data governance integration with Business Glossary including naming standards, reuse of terms, creating of terms on the fly with supervised learning
· Data modeling graphical diagram editor (relationships, annotations, auto layout, etc.)
· Full integration (import and export) with data modeling tools like CA ERwin