A Dynamic Landscape
The demand for systems to deliver flexible solutions is ever-increasing due to the dynamic nature of modern commerce. Business requirements and their underlying processes are in a constant state of change as organizations react to heightened competition, changing regulatory environments, and evolving customer needs. In an attempt to gain a competitive advantage, today’s businesses need to garner vital data from new and existing systems to effectively make essential strategic decisions. Invariably, this requires business and IT professionals to proactively share information and demands that IT infrastructures evolve appropriately, adjusting to changing needs in a cost-effective manner.

There are a number of ways for organizations to effectively manage these demands. First, IT assets must be cataloged, documented, and cross-referenced throughout the enterprise. This produces a comprehensive resource for tracing the impact of proposed changes and promotes reuse while weeding out costly system redundancies and under-utilized components. Second, specific IT assets must be related back to the business processes they support in order for IT professionals to efficiently react to continually evolving requirements. Finally, this vital information must be accessible to all members of the organization, providing a unified view of the associations between business and technical assets while stimulating collaboration.

Capture, analyze and manage the knowledge represented in your corporate information systems.

The MetaCenter Platform empowers companies to address these requirements by integrating real-time ActiveLinx interfaces, a standards-based repository model, and an easy-to-use web-based portal. Patent-pending ActiveLinx technology constructs a real-time catalog of the meta data stored in distributed IT applications, ensuring the currency and accuracy of the information accessed. The MetaCenter Repository delivers a standards-based model that provides organizations the flexibility necessary to quickly and easily capture custom information assets and associate them to their underlying physical IT systems. All of this information is accessible through the web-based MetaCenter Portal, bridging the gap between business and IT professionals by providing a uniform medium for publishing and collaborating in the management of enterprise information assets.