Limitations on Export Bridge's Merge/Update Capabilities

The export bridges generally depend upon the tool receiving the metadata to integrate the metadata correctly, i.e., provide compare, merge and integrate capabilities. Such capabilities are:

• Frequently available on data modeling and model design tools (e.g. Erwin Data Modeler)
• Available in some ETL tools to source/target data stores, but not for data transformations (e.g. Informatica PowerCenter)
• Rarely available on Business Intelligence design tools (e.g. SAP BusinessObjects Designer)
• In order to accommodate these limitations in the destination tool, the following MIMB export bridges offer "limited" metadata update capabilities (Please see the bridge parameter tooltips for more details):
• Data Integration (DI) tools (for ETL Transformations), such as:
• Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB)
• Business Intelligence (BI) design tools, such as:
• Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
• SAP BusinessObjects Designer