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Towards the creation of a standards-based Integrated Information Infrastructure

Bradley Wright, VP Product Management, MetaMatrix, Inc.

With critical enterprise data distributed across disparate commercial and internal applications spanning decades of technology, achieving the goal of an enterprise-wide Integrated Information Infrastructure requires, in part, the construction of a cost-effective middleware solution that can act as the integration layer to these systems. Traditional methods of integrating information such as warehousing or the direct coupling of systems via software have significant limitations including high development and maintenance costs. Fortunately, another approach to constructing an Integrated Information Infrastructure is available: a model or metadata driven approach. This presentation will outline the manner in which a model driven, or metadata driven, approach to real-time, demand-based information integration can be realized through the use of standards defined by the Object Management Group: Meta-Object Facility (MOF), Unified Modeling Language (UML), XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM).

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