Real problems. Hands-on execution. Repeatable results.

A&E Television Networks (AETN)

Metadata Contracts for Netflix Syndication

FIMS-compliant · 20 EDAM systems unified

Challenge: A&E needed to syndicate content to Netflix, which meant metadata from 20 separate EDAM systems had to be canonicalized, made FIMS compliant, and reconciled into unified taxonomies across every AETN brand and DAM asset library.

Solution: InfoLibrarian integrated and mapped the metadata sources, built an A&E and FIMS-compliant enterprise metadata model, and automated taxonomy standardization so real-time data contracts could drive Netflix B2B distribution.

Results:

“InfoLibrarian transformed our metadata strategy, streamlining processes, ensuring compliance, and supporting seamless syndication to Netflix streaming. The solution was scalable, efficient, and delivered on our goals.”

— AETN Project Sponsor, A&E Television Networks

BMO Financial Group

Chosen by an Award-Winning Metadata Program

Evaluated 2006 · In production 2007 · Under support through 2018

Challenge: BMO had built one of the strongest enterprise metadata programs in banking, led by a dedicated Metadata Architect since 2000. In 2006 that program won the Wilshire Conferences Award for Metadata Best Practices, judges citing executive support, a well thought out architecture, and an impressive scope of implementation. That same year the bank went to market for a platform capable of carrying a program of that maturity across global operations and regulatory demands including Basel II and AML.

Solution: BMO issued a formal metadata RFP in October 2006 and ran an on-site evaluation alongside it. InfoLibrarian was selected and moved into production in 2007. The engagement ran for the next decade: portal and QA server licensing, universal XML scanning against staging systems, taxonomy work, enhancement development, a consulting engagement in 2013, and a vendor security assessment in 2014. Maintenance renewed annually through 2017.

Results:

The Wilshire award recognized BMO’s own program. Ron Klein, team leader for the bank’s enterprise metadata initiatives, and Wayne Harrison, Metadata Architect, built it. InfoLibrarian was the platform they evaluated and chose to run it on.

“We set out to solve a metadata problem and ended up transforming our entire approach to data governance. We consolidated fragmented repositories, standardized business definitions, and dramatically improved the traceability of critical information. The flexibility of the platform allowed us to meet regulatory requirements with confidence, while also empowering hundreds of users in technology, marketing, and risk. What we have now is more than metadata — it’s a trusted source of truth that fuels strategic decision-making and operational agility.”

— Head of Data Governance, BMO Financial Group

Standard & Poor's (S&P)

Vendor Selection Run as an Engineering Exercise

Structured RFI · Multidimensional scoring

Challenge: Metadata silos blocked governance standardization and discoverability across a diverse platform estate built on Oracle, Informatica, ERwin and Trillium — while large integration programs, including Compustat and Research Insight, depended on getting control of data items, applications and processes.

Solution: InfoLibrarian ran a structured RFI and vendor selection aligned to S&P’s enterprise architecture: requirements workshops and stakeholder alignment, a custom RFI with multidimensional scoring models, facilitated vendor demos and proofs of concept, then a final platform recommendation with an implementation roadmap.

Results:

“We were able to get about 80% of what we needed done very quickly; in fact the scanning was completely automatic. InfoLibrarian is a powerful product. We are very impressed!”

— Enterprise Architecture Sponsor, Standard & Poor’s

“The metadata integration provided by InfoLibrarian gave our teams the confidence to use and trust the data they had.”

— Enterprise Data Leadership, Standard & Poor’s

Fidelity Investments

A 120-Hour Proof of Concept, Then the Enterprise

Engaged 2013 · 120-hour PoC

Challenge: Documentation gaps, metadata redundancy and high-cost manual governance workarounds across the enterprise.

Solution: A 120-hour proof of concept and internal risk assessment preceded delivery of a centralized metadata clearing house and documentation portal. The engagement was built for enterprise ownership: no licensing or maintenance fees on customizations, 100% open metadata access, and tailored training with knowledge transfer embedded in delivery.

Results:

“InfoLibrarian enabled Fidelity to take control of our metadata landscape and governance practices, while transferring essential knowledge to our internal team. The framework is both open and adaptable — exactly what a modern enterprise needs.”

— Enterprise Architecture Team, Fidelity Investments

University of Arizona

Enterprise Metadata Service for a Fragmented Campus Estate

Proof of concept 2005 · In production from 2006

Challenge: Payroll, Finance, Personnel and Student data sat in separate silos, with intricate gateways between mainframe and client-server applications. The University Information System gave analysts a central relational database, but as an un-normalized view of the transaction system it left them unable to see how data related. An internal study named the lack of quality metadata as one of the major barriers to using university data consistently.

Solution: A proof of concept in 2005, then budget approval and production implementation in 2006 of InfoLibrarian Enterprise — metadata software plus the Metadata Integration Appliance. Portal, Scanning, Administrator, Framework and templates, with training and support. A custom scanner for the university’s DEC/Oracle RDB automated publishing of technical metadata to the portal, and Excel API templates let subject matter experts contribute in a tool they already knew.

Results:

“The InfoLibrarian metadata repository has eased the pain for our users to access and consume the data needed for their daily operations.”

— Robert Cooper, Assistant Director, Information Warehouse Office, University of Arizona

“InfoLibrarian has been a cost-effective investment and has proven to be a solid data management tool. It has components for every level of skill, from spreadsheet templates and the online portal for basic users to advanced API integration for our internal staff.”

— Ignacio de la Torre, Data Warehouse Analyst, Information Warehouse Office, University of Arizona

New Zealand Education Ministry (New Zealand)

Selected by Competitive RFP for a National Education Estate

18-month evaluation · Under support through 2016

Challenge: The Ministry needed a centralized platform to standardize business and technical metadata, support national data strategy, and reduce the long-term cost of managing fragmented systems.

Solution: After almost eighteen months of vendor research, RFIs, RFPs, proofs of concept and trials, the Ministry selected InfoLibrarian for harvesting, integration and metadata visualization. The platform delivered unified access across RDBMS environments with a structure-agnostic interface serving both technical and business users, and taxonomy work aligned to Dublin Core, NZGLS and SARKMS standards.

Results:

“InfoLibrarian is one of the most useful products we have purchased here at the Ministry!”

— New Zealand Ministry of Education

“The InfoLibrarian platform helped us standardize metadata governance and deliver critical insights faster across the Ministry. Its flexibility and integration capabilities aligned well with our long-term data strategy.”

— Data Architecture Lead, New Zealand Ministry of Education

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Metadata Registry for the Federal Biometrics Catalog

Biometric Storage System · Biometrics.gov

Challenge: A centralized, secure and interoperable metadata registry was needed for biometrics content across federal agencies, while legacy biometric storage infrastructure was modernized without interrupting service.

Solution: InfoLibrarian provided consulting to guide selection and implementation of a secure metadata registry supporting the Biometric Storage System (BSS) and the Biometrics Catalog platform, with harvesting, classification and access across government departments and interoperability with the registries published on Biometrics.gov, BiometricsCatalog.org and Biometrics.org.

Results:

“We were pleased with InfoLibrarian’s professionalism and expertise throughout the Biometric Storage System project. Their strategic guidance helped us select and implement a solution that not only improved our operational efficiency but also enhanced our ability to meet security requirements. The phased approach and detailed evaluation allowed us to make informed decisions, and the seamless transition from legacy systems to the new solution was executed flawlessly.”

— USCIS Project Manager, Biometric Storage System Implementation

Western Power (Australia)

Enterprise Metadata Stewardship for a National Grid Operator

Proof of concept 2005 · Under support through 2017

Challenge: Western Power distributes and transmits electricity across the South West of Western Australia. Owned by the state government but operating as a commercial corporation under regulatory obligation, it needed metadata governance that could satisfy both — auditable stewardship of its information assets, without the overhead of a bureaucratic program.

Solution: A proof of concept was run on the Departmental Edition before any enterprise commitment. On its results Western Power selected and implemented the InfoLibrarian Enterprise Metadata Framework, including the change management and contribution modules, establishing enterprise-wide metadata stewardship with business users contributing directly rather than filing requests through IT.

Results:

West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission

Search Appliance for a Statewide Policy Body

Search Appliance™ · Under support 2008–2010

Challenge: The Commission develops and oversees public policy for West Virginia’s four-year colleges and universities. Its information assets were spread across the documents, systems and correspondence that policy work generates — findable in principle, unsearchable in practice.

Solution: The InfoLibrarian Search Appliance was deployed to index and search the Commission’s information assets, giving policy staff retrieval across the estate rather than navigation through it. A different product to the metadata framework deployed elsewhere, aimed at discovery rather than governance.

Results:

“InfoLibrarian helps the policy commission to search and manage their information assets.”

— West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission

UnitedHealth Group (UHG)

A Managed Metadata Environment at 80,000 Terms

Enterprise MME · Under support 2008–2014

Challenge: UHG needed a global platform able to bind over 80,000 business terms to their corresponding technical metadata, unify it across EDW and ETL systems, remove redundancy, and publish an authoritative glossary usable across the organization.

Solution: InfoLibrarian designed and implemented a scalable Managed Metadata Environment aligning business definitions with technical lineage across data platforms. Source system interviews and data dictionary ingestion ran through 2008, feeding a metadata clearinghouse that powered governance and traceability at enterprise scale.

Results:

“The metadata integration gave our teams the confidence to use and trust the data they had.”

— Enterprise Data Analytics Team, UnitedHealth Group

U.S. Foodservice

Chosen Over Seven Vendors on Timeframe, Efficiency and Cost

Engaged 2007 · Under support through 2013

Challenge: A metadata problem large enough that the internal estimate was a four to five year overhaul costing roughly $1 million. Before committing, the company ran a full market evaluation — Informatica PowerCenter, IBM WebSphere DataStage, Ab Initio, Microsoft SSIS, Oracle Warehouse Builder, SAS and Sunopsis.

Solution: InfoLibrarian was engaged in 2007 for a proof of concept using the Departmental Edition with a single Oracle scanner — deliberately small, to prove value before scale. It won selection on timeframe, efficiency, cost and POC results. The engagement then expanded into the enterprise: DataStage ETL objects and job designs scanned, BusinessObjects metadata integrated, and a custom impact analysis portal template built for the estate.

Results:

“We reviewed multiple companies, and only InfoLibrarian met all our needs. Timeframe, efficiency, cost, and POC results — perfect fit.”

— Major U.S. Foodservice Provider

“InfoLibrarian fit perfectly for our metadata overhaul. Their strategic planning approach helped clarify our priorities and ensured our metadata would serve as a long-term asset across projects.”

— Enterprise Data Team, U.S. Foodservice

Sabre Holdings

30,000 Models, and a TPF Modernization Program

Engaged 2005 · Under support through 2021

Challenge: Governance across one of the largest travel technology estates in the world — core reservation processing on mainframe TPF, a big data platform on Hadoop and Cloudera, and tens of thousands of ERwin models accumulated across decades and departments. With GDPR in force, that sprawl became a compliance exposure: without governance over the data estate and the models describing it, the fines carried real weight.

Solution: A centralized metadata strategy with automated governance templates and mapping, integrating 30,000+ ERwin models alongside the Hadoop and Cloudera estate into one searchable, governed view. The engagement later extended into a departmental TPF modernization program with a formal discovery phase, professional services agreement and multi-server licensing.

Results:

“The platform’s flexibility aligned perfectly with our data strategy.”

— VP Airline Solutions, Sabre Holdings

Fuji Film e-Systems

Impact Analysis Across an Undocumented Server Estate

Databases first · Expanded to web and infrastructure

Challenge: Fuji Film e-Systems ran roughly 30 very large databases on clustered servers and EMC storage, carrying millions of transactions behind Fujifilm’s Frontier Digital Lab Systems and the web photo services it operated for major retail chains. The databases had grown extremely complex, were difficult to maintain, and were essentially undocumented. Third-party products were cost prohibitive or could not address the systems already in place, and building a repository in house was estimated at more than a year with real risk of failure.

Solution: InfoLibrarian was selected on ease of use, cost value and functionality. It produced documentation and impact analysis across databases and stored procedures in every environment, then expanded beyond databases to deployed web code, UDL files, custom scripts and registry settings for technical support and web development. Auto-rescanning was configured to run daily at 5 AM as a low-priority task with a seven-day history retention.

Results:

“It’s like automatic documentation.”

— Georgia McCabe, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Fuji Film e-Systems

“Within days of implementing the InfoLibrarian solution, we began reaping the benefits. As a development company with systems and resources encompassing many platforms and disciplines, we needed a solution that would allow us to see our inter-related components and how they impact each other. The InfoLibrarian tool is a straight-forward tool that accomplished this with minimal training of our users and with minimal time and resources required for its implementation.”

— Ryan Mills, Project Manager, Knowledge Management Initiatives, Fuji Film e-Systems