IBM
IBM has shipped Meta Integration technology inside its own products since 2003, starting with Cognos and extending across the InfoSphere metadata stack in 2006. Model Bridge supplies the metadata harvesting, impact analysis and end-to-end data lineage that IBM customers use to trace a figure in a report back to the model it came from.
Inside partnership
Metadata management
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
IBM signed an OEM agreement in April 2006 to embed Model Bridge in its data integration and metadata management products. Metadata Workbench draws its cross-tool import options, impact analysis and lineage reporting from those bridges.
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) inside
Business intelligence
IBM Cognos Analytics
Cognos has shipped Meta Integration metadata movement components inside Framework Manager since the ReportNet OEM agreement of July 2003, several years before IBM acquired Cognos. Meta Integration was named Cognos Technology Partner of the Year in 2005.
Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) inside
Database and OLAP
IBM Db2
Bidirectional bridges connect Db2 relational and dimensional metadata to the data modeling, ETL and BI tools around it. IBM named Meta Integration in the Db2 Cube Views launch announcement in 2003 and published a Redpaper on the integration that September.
Partnership milestones
Announcements, OEM agreements and joint releases across the IBM and Cognos relationships. Full press release extracts stay available in the expandable archives.