MetaTrieval Software's groundbreaking enterprise-wide, vendor-neutral, natural-language metadata- search/data-discovery product, MetaTrieve, gains recognition of its significance.

LOS ANGELES, CA October 4, 2004 -- Gavilan Research Associates prepares and sells the Meta-Data Solutions Report™, a comprehensive research study that compares thirteen (13) leading meta-data management solutions (vendors) against a common set of detailed evaluation criteria. The Meta-Data Solutions Report contains over 100 detailed product research questions and vendor solution requirements.

MetaTrieval Software, LLC, has been selected for version 1.3 of the report as one of these leading vendors.

The complete roster of top metadata vendors and their products profiled are: Adaptive Repository Agilense / EA WebModeler, Ascential Software / MetaStage, ASG / Rochade, BritCom / InfoLibrarian, CA / Advantage Repository, Data Advantage Group / MetaCenter, Informatica / SuperGlue, LogicLibrary / Logidex, MetaTrieval / MetaTrieve, SchemaLogic / SchemaServer, Software AG / EMR and Unicorn System.

MetaTrieval Software's Patent-Pending first products, MetaTrieve & MetaTrieveXL, are the first & ONLY Enterprise-wide, vendor-neutral, natural-language Search engine AND query tool for Relational databases. A huge challenge across organizations is answering the data-discovery questions of what IS the data and WHERE is it located in departmentally widely distributed databases. This is a tremendous burden because of the complexity/ambiguity of database metadata. It is this problem that MetaTrieve provides an efficient solution for, with profound productivity implications for a wide range of critical IT or business functions: ETL, EAI, EII, database, data warehouse and/or data-mart construction, data mapping, data auditing, Business Intelligence and reporting, meta-data management, programming generally, B2B initiatives, etc. I.e., Data discovery is also the prime activity of data integration, consolidation and warehousing in all industries/markets.

To read more about the Meta-Data Solutions Report by Gavilan Research Associates, click here http://www.gavilanresearch.com/index_files/solutionsreport.htm .

To read our co-founder's article in the latest Meta-Data Research Trends newsletter by Gavilan Research, click here http://www.gavilanresearch.com/images/MDRT-Sept2004.html .