International Business Machines Corporation

Ruth M Amaru

Benjamin Halberstadt

Joshua Fox

Boris Melamed

Zvi Schreiber

Hayden Marchant

Rannen Meir

Joseph Edelstein

Guy Yitzhaki

Ziv Zalman Hellman

David Cavenor

Ahuva Hazan-Fuchs

A metadata management system for importing, integrating and federating metadata, including a configurable metamodel, a metadata repository for storing metadata whose structure reflects the metamodel, at least one external metadata source, which is able to persist metadata in accordance with the structure of a meta-schema, a mapping module for mapping the meta-schema to the metamodel, and a transformation module, operatively coupled to the metadata mapping module, for translating specific metadata from the at least one external metadata source to the metadata repository, for use in import, export or synchronization of metadata between the external metadata source and the metadata repository. A method and a computer-readable storage medium are also described.

Business rules for configurable metamodels and enterprise impact analysis

An enterprise information unification system including an information modeler for modeling business entities and their properties as an information model, the information model being comprised of business constructs, a data rationalizer for generating mappings from physical data assets to the information model, the physical data assets being comprised of data asset constructs, and a data thesaurus for automating tasks of data management based on the mappings. A method is also described and claimed.

Enterprise information unification

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Ruth M Amaru