The Information Catalog (also known as a Data Dictionary) is a comprehensive utility tool that allows Notes Developers, Administrators and Data Warehouse Managers to set up and manage an Enterprise-wide Data Dictionary in the convenient and easy-to-use Notes interface.
The Information Catalog automatically catalogs and updates metadata on legacy or warehouse data into Notes applications. It is useful for Data Warehouse Managers who need to initialize and update all of their data sources and definitions quickly and easily with data from any ODBC-compatible data source.
Great for your Data Warehouse |
Now you can now provide a comprehensive Data Catalog of what data is available to end-users! Information hungry users in marketing, operations, accounting and manufacturing can understand what data is available in the warehouse, its source and definition.
Fast !!! Save Months of manual typing. |
Information Catalog automatically catalogs thousands of fields in a few hours and provides a significant increase in data warehouse productivity.
Users or DBAs can then enter meta data of field information, such as business owner, detailed definition, and comments (such as "this field is rarely used anymore" or "input by Order Entry").
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Automatically Builds Your Catalog! |
The Information Catalog engine automatically browses all ODBC databases and tables, and creates an Information Catalog, in Lotus Notes, of all tables and fields it finds in the enterprise.
Disseminate via Lotus Notes ® |
The Information Catalog allows the information to be disseminated via Lotus Notes, to support user workgroups. Tables and fields can be assigned to departments and individuals, who enter meta data about the fields, such as the business definition. Notes views allow you to see all occurrences of a field throughout the databases within your organization.
Cross Platform, Enterprise-Wide |
The Information Catalog builds the catalog of the entire enterprise, not just one database. Some of the over 30 supported databases:
Oracle, AS/400, Sybase, DB2, Access, SQL server
The field name mapper allows synonyms that more accurately depicts the field's contents. This is convenient if one data element historically was given more than one field name, or the field name is not sufficiently clear.
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