Hummingbird focuses on metadata

Business intelligence vendor Hummingbird Communications has unveiled a new strategy and product built around metadata.

The new Genio Met@Explorer product is designed to provide access to all of a company’s metadata, which analyst Wolfgang Martin, VP at the Meta Group, characterizes as the “life-blood of an organization’s infrastructure as they strive to embrace the e-business model of the new millenium.”

Genio, which will be generally available in Q1 of 2000, is powered by the Met@Data Server, which Hummingbird will use as the basis for drivers to access metadata repositories.

Another upcoming product is the Hummingbird Enterprise Repository (HERO) to leverage XML-enabled metadata access and interchange.

"With the new metadata strategy, the HERO architecture and Genio Met@Explorer, Hummingbird's position as a leading data integration and reporting solutions provider has been significantly strengthened," said Barry Litwin, president of Hummingbird. "Leveraging standards such as XML, Hummingbird is leading the way to integrate the different tasks required for intelligent repository management