Cross-system metadata alliance
SchemaLogic, a software firm providing enterprise metadata and taxonomy management solutions, and Innodata Isogen, a leading provider of content supply chain solutions, today announced they have formed a new business alliance.
Under the agreement, SchemaLogic and Innodata Isogen will work cooperatively on marketing and sales activities in the information management and content integration marketplace. Together, the companies provide a complete solution for large organizations producing and aggregating XML content.
"Innodata Isogen's expertise in XML and other open information standards, content management and publishing technologies and business process re-engineering is complemented by the enterprise metadata and taxonomy management software developed by SchemaLogic," said Jeff Dirks, president and CEO of SchemaLogic. "Together we can help customers better realize cost-savings and productivity gains in their content operations, while enabling them to improve compliance, agility and the findability of distributed information."
Innodata Isogen optimizes content supply chains -- the sequence of activities necessary to create, use and distribute information or information products. SchemaLogic software manages the cross-system metadata, schema, taxonomies and vocabularies that define and describe distributed information. Together the firms deliver an enterprise view of data structures and semantics used by various systems, along with business processes that dramatically simplify content integration and information retrieval.
"Part of what we do is help clients organize and deliver information more effectively, more efficiently and more economically. SchemaLogic plays a key role by unifying the various metadata, schema and taxonomies used across disparate systems," said George Kondrach, executive vice president of Innodata Isogen. "SchemaLogic represents the state-of-the-art for reconciliation and synchronization of structural and semantic definitions used within different systems. In business terms, this makes it easier for systems to talk to each other and deliver information to the right people at the right time, no matter how it is created or where it is stored."
The never-ending demand to cut costs and make better decisions faster -- plus new regulations (e.g., Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA) -- mandate greater coordination, governance and control over distributed information. For these reasons, many companies place enterprise information architecture high on their 2004 priority list. Nick Gall, senior vice president of the META Group, recently wrote, "Our research indicates that 2004 will be the breakout year for a unified concept of model-oriented architecture that better weaves together its various aspects: models, markup, schemas, self-description, reflection, and metadata."
This trend creates rising demand for SchemaLogic software and Innodata Isogen services, as enterprises unify disparate systems, create enterprise information architecture and optimize their content supply chain. SOX and other governance regulations have sparked improvements to processes and systems that manage information, including metadata. But there is great value beyond compliance, including information management cost reductions of up to 80%, greater business agility and new levels of information sharing across disparate systems.
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