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 Company Profile
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Metadata Management Corporation (MMC) is a small woman-owned internet
application/software development and consulting business headquartered in
Fairfax, Virginia. As world class innovators of metadata and repository
technology, we build on methodologies such as Enterprise Architecture Planning
and the Zachman Framework to provide a logical and methodical flow to achieving
an integrated enterprise. MMC has developed methodologies and processes to aid
in the archaeology, extraction, and integration of an enterprise's metadata and
have implemented our repository product, DesignBank, for a very large Air Force
organization. Our thoughts and ideas have changed and evolved to keep in step
with new techniques, methodologies, and practices of the 21st century.
A Little Philosophy
The pace at which change occurs today is far quicker than it has been in the
past and obviously slower than it will be in the coming years. Many of these
advances are good. Good for the economy, good for the country and good for
business. However, not all of these changes are good and not all of these
changes are necessary. But how do you know if you can afford to ignore a
change? Who has time to analyze what these changes mean to your business and
what impact they will have on it? The ultimate solution is to be able to
evaluate each of these changes with existing manpower and resources but without
throwing your business into turmoil. The answer is to have your business
defined, classified and managed in such a way that impact analysis can be
performed. This can only be accomplished through a controlled, quality tested,
and managed repository.
Why a Repository?
A repository, such as DesignBank, should provide the framework for classifying
artifacts and establishing relationships among the artifacts to enable impact
analysis and change management. If an organization wants to manage all of their
information resource architectures (i.e., technology, data, and application)
from high-level abstractions through lower level transformations -- it can't be
done without a repository. Business process engineering became very popular a
few years ago -- but, how many times can an enterprise afford to reengineer?
How does an organization protect its reengineering investment? Perhaps one of
the reasons the reengineering wave lost momentum, is
due in part to the idea that once all the work went into the reengineering
process, the artifacts of that reengineering may not have been managed in a way
that allowed an economical iteration of the total reengineered solution. The TO
BE of the reengineering effort rapidly became the AS IS that needed to be
changed again. An organization can't afford to be stuck on a perpetual
reengineering cycle especially in light of the substantial investment required
to do reengineering. With a meta-information repository, the artifacts of the
reengineering can be maintained, accessed, and reused. More importantly, these
artifacts can be integrated with all other artifacts so the impact of change
can be shown from one functional area to another, from data model to data
schema, from one level of abstraction to another, from strategic plan to
software code. For more information on repositories, check out these
informative articles in the News section:
A Disciplined Approach to Managing Enterprise Information Systems Architectures
Using a Meta-Information Repository
Repository Directions
What is Needed
An appreciation for the process of information asset management.
An "understanding of the enterprise and the data that constitute its
information infrastructure" (John Zachman quoted in Spewak, 1992).
A taxonomy or framework for organizing the various artifacts which comprise and
describe an enterprise.
An automated mechanism (a repository) for storing, retrieving, and integrating
these artifacts.
MMC's Goal
Our goal is to provide solutions that reduce the customer's vulnerability to
change, trends and whims. To manage the enterprise so the customer can evaluate
their information and be proactive instead of reactive. The ability to assess
impact and be decisive, informed and creative in their decision making. This
can only be carried out by implementing a managed approach to the information
about an enterprise, its data and its software systems. Our flagship product
DesignBank, is a classic repository which was developed to fill the gap
between concept and concrete. DesignBank was born out of the necessity to
capture and manage metadata in a storage facility and respect the other pieces
to the puzzle that gives credence to an artifact's existence. Learn more about
the DesignBank Architecture in the News section.
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