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Metamodel your enterprise's data

While current products only let you model your data one database at a time, the MetaModeler lets you metamodel your enterprise’s data as one comprehensive whole.

Some Vital Facts

Enterprises lose enormous amounts of time and money by not having an encompassing vision of their data, arguably their most valuable asset.

By having related databases separately modeled, consistency bugs plague many projects. More, these bugs are often not found before actual client site deployment resulting in disastrous effects.

In many projects, data related bugs often reappear time and time again because of related databases being separately modeled.

MetaModeler Solution

The MetaModeler takes data modeling to the next level by enabling all the project’s data to be metamodeled as one coherent whole.

With the MetaModeler :
• Any commonality between databases can be factored to a common root
• Any specificity can still be expressed on top of the factored commonality

The MetaModeler can also :
• Import and export schema information from and to existing databases
• Compare and merge any set of data modelings
• Do multiple concurrent searches and replacements in every stored procedure
• Create an executable that will automatically update a client’s databases from one version to another

It is a well-accepted fact that data modeling plays a central and vital role in any development project. By dramatically improving the heart of the development process, the MetaModeler brings new blood to every team of the project : the functional analysis team, the development team, the quality assurance team, and even to clients who already have installed versions of the product.

A Real Life Example

This leading edge company develops Internet products for its clients. It employs a classical distributed architecture with replication :
• A central server running SQL Server
• A local Access database on each user’s station
• Palm pilots with dBase used on the road

While it has seen a steady increase of its client base, profitability increase has been much less spectacular. Production costs are always rising because of the complexities of managing so many client projects.

The MetaModeler enabled them to model all their client databases as one comprehensive whole. By doing this, they where able to factor all commonality while still being able to express client specific needs. This unified view enabled them to streamline their development process, vastly improve product quality and reliability (resulting in fewer bug reports, client corrupted databases, …) and ultimately not only save money but also remain the leading force in their business area, ahead of new contenders.

Custom Tailored

A company that wants to take the MetaModeler experience to another level can also have MetaScoop develop a version of the MetaModeler custom tailored to improve all their processes that cascade from the central metamodeling (internationalization, user interface elements management, Web pages generation, …).