SAS was one of the first BI vendors to commit to open metadata, declaring CWM compliance in System 9 and naming Meta Integration as the alliance behind it. The 2005 OEM agreement put the full line of Model Bridges in front of SAS Data Integration customers.
A strategic partnership since 2001, an OEM agreement since 2005. Where Meta Integration technology runs inside the SAS stack:
Data integration
SAS offers customers the option of bundling the full line of Model Bridges with SAS Data Integration, so jobs and libraries exchange metadata with the wider enterprise toolset.
Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) inside
Metadata management
Bidirectional exchange with the SAS metadata repository, including libraries and the metadata management layer that the rest of the platform reads from.
SAS Metadata Server and Management Console
Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB) inside
Analytics and reporting
BI reporting metadata from Visual Analytics and Information Map Studio, plus parsing of Base SAS code so transformations written in SAS appear in lineage.
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