Informatica Metadata Manager is a PowerCenter web application to browse, analyze, and manage metadata from disparate metadata repositories. Metadata Manager helps you understand how information and processes are derived, how they are related, and how they are used.
Metadata Manager extracts metadata from application, business intelligence, data integration, data modeling, and relational metadata sources. Metadata Manager uses PowerCenter workflows to extract metadata from metadata sources and load it into a centralized metadata warehouse called the Metadata Manager warehouse.
You can use Metadata Manager to browse and search metadata objects, trace data lineage, analyze metadata usage, and perform data profiling on the metadata in the Metadata Manager warehouse. You can also create and manage business glossaries. You can use the JasperReports application to view reports on the metadata in the Metadata Manager warehouse.
The Metadata Manager Service in the Informatica domain runs the Metadata Manager application. Create a Metadata Manager Service in the Informatica Administrator to configure and run the Metadata Manager application.
The Metadata Manager web application includes the following components:
• Metadata Manager Service. An application service in an Informatica domain that runs the Metadata Manager application and manages connections between the Metadata Manager components. You create and configure the Metadata Manager Service in the Administrator tool.
• Metadata Manager application. Manages the metadata in the Metadata Manager warehouse. Create and load resources in Metadata Manager. After you use Metadata Manager to load metadata for a resource, you can use the Metadata Manager application to browse and analyze metadata for the resource. You can also create custom models and manage security on the metadata in the Metadata Manager warehouse.
• Metadata Manager Agent. Runs within the Metadata Manager application or on a separate machine.
Metadata Exchanges uses the Metadata Manager Agent to extract metadata from metadata sources and convert it to IME interface-based format.
• Metadata Manager repository. A centralized location in a relational database that stores metadata from disparate metadata sources. The repository also stores Metadata Manager metadata and the packaged and custom models for each metadata source type.
• PowerCenter Integration Service. Runs the workflows that extract the metadata from IME-based files and load it into the Metadata Manager warehouse.
• PowerCenter Repository Service. Manages connections to the PowerCenter repository. The repository stores the workflows that extract metadata from IME interface-based files.
• Custom Metadata Configurator. Creates custom resource templates to extract metadata from metadata sources for which Metadata Manager does not package a resource type.
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