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The Meta Data Repository Track

Meta data is a mandatory deliverable with every BI application. It can no longer be shoved aside as documentation because it must serve the business community as a navigation tool for the BI decision-support environment. Therefore, the purpose of this development track is to design, build, and populate a meta data repository. The team members are responsible for designing and building the access interfaces as well as the reporting and querying capabilities for the meta data repository. The team working on the Meta Data Repository track is usually staffed with a meta data administrator and developers who have experience with building client/server-based interfaces and are knowledgeable about Web applications.

These three parallel tracks can be considered major subprojects of a BI project. Each will have its own team members and its own set of activities after the project requirements have been formalized. Discoveries made in one track can (and often do) impact the other tracks. Figure 0.8 shows the interaction of the three tracks across the development steps.

Each development track has specific deliverables that contribute to the overall BI project objectives.

The ETL track delivers loaded BI target databases.

The Application track delivers the BI reports and queries.

The Meta Data Repository track delivers the meta data.

Taken from : Business Intelligence Roadmap- By Larissa T. Moss, Shaku Atre