Must Have: Schema Management
SchemaLogic, leader in Enterprise Schema Management (ESM), announced today availability of SchemaServer v2, software that cuts integration costs and improves information access by enabling information managers to share the data structures and metadata terminology used by interconnected applications.
SchemaServer helps large organizations connect various applications and databases by bringing together the schema, metadata categories and taxonomies that define how information is stored and retrieved. It allows organizations to discover, solve, and manage the gaps, overlaps and conflicts among schema and metadata used across an enterprise. SchemaServer is unique because it creates an application-independent, enterprise view of common terminology and data structures, with system-specific adaptors.
Exchanging information within the complex mix of applications, content management systems and databases prevalent in large organizations is impossible without knowing the structure and terminology in each source. Unlike point-to-point integration tools,
SchemaServer reconciles all the schema and metadata specifications used within an enterprise, creating agreed-upon definitions that can by pushed out to interconnected systems, so they work as one," said Andrei Ovchinnikov, CEO of SchemaLogic.
"Reconciling various schema and metadata specifications is the first step. Keeping distributed applications in synch automatically as categories or specifications change provides a huge cost savings, while helping our clients propagate new information faster."
The technology provides a collaborative approach to the transformation of application-specific schema and metadata definitions into a shared, active repository.
The product supports schema and taxonomy import, owner/stakeholder assignment, impact analysis, change management and synchronization of taxonomy, thesauri and controlled vocabularies across distributed systems.
The software addresses an emerging need, coordinating schemas among disparate enterprise environments.
This is a difficult and an increasingly important issue," said Geoffrey Bock, Vice President of Patricia Seybold Group. "We believe it will be making a major contribution towards developing a coordinated knowledge infrastructure."
While one goal of Enterprise Schema Management is sharing of collaboratively designed schema assets, SchemaServer also supports varied terminology and system-specific data structures.
"Agreeing how information should be structured and categorized is a challenge for any department or agency that wants to automate the exchange of information," said Dr. Paul Prueitt, CEO of OntologyStream. "Reconciliation of different informational structures and the impact of change comprise one of the most important aspects of information production. SchemaServer v2 provides the means to increase the fidelity of intelligence by mediating the diversity of viewpoint in a world driven by information exchange. In doing so, SchemaServer v2 helps integration teams and those who utilize the new information."
Using the tool, information managers define and synchronize the specifications and terminology that programmers and information consumers use to access distributed information.
About Enterprise Schema Management (ESM)
Schemas, which define the structure and specifications for data and metadata, can be defined and managed as an enterprise initiative, a process known as Enterprise Schema Management (ESM). ESM involves technology and processes for the reconciliation and communication of schema and metadata specifications used across the enterprise. The goal is rapid integration, effective retrieval and systematic reuse of information stored within various databases, content management systems or software applications. Before ESM, there was no efficient way to discover, solve and manage the gaps, overlaps and conflicts among schema and metadata used across an enterprise. This problem caused information silos, with substantial and recurring costs associated with integration or redundant information. Reconciliation involves consensus-building, collaboration and change-management processes to identify and resolve cross-application impacts. By unifying enterprise schema and keeping them synchronized over time, ESM facilitates an organized view of available information and how it can be accessed, which cuts integration costs and improves availability of information from disparate systems.
Delicious
Digg
Reddit
Magnoliacom
Newsvine
Furl
Google
Yahoo
Technorati
Comments
Post new comment