Is There Finally a Metadata Exchange Standard on the Horizon?
M. Reed - September 28, 1999

Event Summary

'REDWOOD SHORES, California, BLUE BELL, Pensylvania., SOMERS, New York, DAYTON, Ohio, and SUNNYVALE, California, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Corp., Unisys Corp. (NYSE: UIS), IBM Corp., NCR Corp. (NYSE: NCR) and Hyperion (Nasdaq: HYSL) today announced the submission of the common warehouse metadata interchange (CWMI) standard to the Object Management Group (OMG). The proposed standard is designed to help companies integrate e-business systems quickly and easily by supplying a common format for enterprise systems to exchange data.. Today, the many software products used to create warehouses or other e-business systems are based on proprietary data formats, which often prevents information sharing between products and hampers access to the knowledge needed to make timely business decisions'...