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MetaSuite

MetaSuite

The MetaSuite products

Are a set of world-renowned data extraction, transformation and data management tools. MetaSuite automates the development and maintenance of data warehouses and associated data marts in either the client/server or mainframe environment. MetaSuite's capabilities range from creating and loading metadata to all aspects of program development related to the extraction and transformation of operational data, to populating the data warehouse/mart.
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MetaSuite

MetaSuite

An introduction to a data warehouse architecture
Introduction
This is Carleton's 4-layered framework approach to Data Warehousing. Utilising this framework will ensure a successful implementation of a Data Warehouse or Data Mart initiative. This is a solution that responds to the dynamically changing world of business today and provides answers to most of the challenges that lie ahead of such an endeavour.
A 4-Layered Framework
To support this framework, MetaSuite is fundamental for obtaining consistent, high-performing, and fast results. MetaSuite fulfils the role of data warehouse generation, maintenance and data management tool and supports all the required production of data containers from any source to any target. Metasuite guarantees the fastest ROI for your data warehousing initiatives.
MetaSuite
  • Operation
  • Integration
  • Distribution
  • Consumption
As detailed in Figure 1, there are 4 layers with the following functions on the corporate data and metadata:
A 4-Layered Framework

Testimonials

"MetaSuite has an open architecture, and this has made it the data warehousing tool of choice for many third-party vendors."
-Butler
Many have praised MetaSuite for its exceptional capabilities. From its open architecture and unrivalled transformation speed to its broad functionality, MetaSuite has earned the trust of these respected names. Their endorsements speak to a legacy of innovation and reliability in data management.
"MetaSuite is the fastest transformation tool in the world."
-Ernst & Young
"MetaSuite offers a solid range of functionality. It is particularly worthy of consideration."
-Ovum
Awards

Awards

MetaSuite's industry recognition underlines its standing as a world-renowned solution. As a Charter Member of The Data Warehousing Institute and a Member of the International Data Warehousing Association, CARLETON AUSTRALIA consistently demonstrates excellence. These achievements reinforce its commitment to quality and leadership in data warehousing.
Data Quality

Data Quality

PRESSURE INCREASES FOR QUALITY DATA REQUIREMENTS
Data Warehousing IT
As the business world becomes more competitive and information-intensive, large corporations are increasingly dependent on the ability to process data reliably and quickly.
Carleton's data warehousing products, MetaSuite and MetaSuite Parallel Edition, offer large companies the ability to bring data from IT environments that are often complex and heterogeneous and deliver it to the end user in a uniform, integrated format. This provides a sound basis for the company's decision-making.
On the other hand, its client Mercedes-Benz uses the system on a smaller 10Gb Data Mart.
MetaSuite can handle complexity as well as size. Another bank needs to extract data from over 600 varied systems distributed across a country, load them onto an IBM MVS mainframe to get them together and clean them, and then load them onto a Sun Data Warehouse to prepare them for analysis. It is then sampled on another IBM mainframe Data Mart and downloaded onto a Windows NT and UNIX consuming layer.
The main benefit of MetaSuite is that it makes the most of parallel systems. 'If I have a system with 50 processors,' says Bolk, 'in theory the system runs 50 times faster. We lose 10% for the interprocessing communications, but that is normal. In fact, 10% is excellent.'
Speed is a major advantage of MetaSuite. It can process as much data in half an hour as a mainframe can in seven. Another major advantage is quality assurance. The user can ensure the quality of the data, as is possible on most systems. However, as Bolk explains, 'We look at data warehousing as a process, so you have quality assurance about the process as well.' This means that an auditor can check the history of the data warehouse and be certain that it has been correctly processed throughout by consulting the metadata. 'This is one very unique feature,' adds Bolk. The MetaSuite Parallel Edition brings a new dimension to quality assurance. It enables the user to set up a 'flow' that instructs the processors to perform several tasks one after another. Also, half the processors can be instructed to perform one operation, and the others to perform another. This means that quality control algorithms can be built into applications to ensure quality in real time. MetaSuite also offers considerable ease of installation and use. For a known system, the company usually aims to install the system in one day. Earlier generations of data warehousing software required considerable amounts of COBOL programming by hand, or didn't offer the levels of functionality companies require. MetaSuite generates applications that are ready to run and require no COBOL expertise. This contributes to the most significant of MetaSuite's advantages – its cost-effectiveness. It needs no code to be added by hand, so Bolk estimates the effectiveness at two hours per function point, which keeps the cost of ownership down. According to Bolk, the nearest competitor takes six hours. Maintenance is usually estimated as a fixed proportion of the cost of ownership, and MetaSuite offers proportionate savings in this area as well. With faster, more reliable data warehousing at lower cost, the MetaSuite and MetaSuite Parallel Edition offer packages that no organisation looking for large-scale information-processing capacity can afford to ignore, particularly as in this area, as Bolk says, 'A bad decision can cost millions.'

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