Searching For Metadata Tools?

stephenbooth asks: "I have been tasked with handling the creation of a data model and Metadata collection for a Data Warehouse that will pull data from a really wide range of backend systems. Basically if a system exists we've probably got it somewhere -- everything from DB2 and Oracle on Mainframe/big UNIX boxes down to Dataease, FoxPro and Excel on desktop PCs, also some fairly eosoteric stuff like a couple of PACBASE systems on a Bull mainframe. What we know for sure is that the RDBMS for the Data Warehouse will be Oracle (corporate standard and we have a lot of skills in Oracle in the IT departments) and that one of the frontend query tools will be Business Objects5i (version 5.1.1). My first concern is to start looking at Metadata tools to help with the analysis of the current data and manage our first stabs at the transform stage, it would be great if we could continue the same tools into the production system. We would also be looking to interface the Metadata tools to some CASE tools to help with the data modeling. I am hoping that some Slashdotters could suggest sites/publications that compare tools (I'm wary of taking what the manufacturers sites say at face value) and perhaps share some horror/success stories."

What you might be looking for . . .

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. . . is Data Junction [datajunction.com]. It can grab and aggregate multiple sources of data, in addition to understanding and dealing with metadata. I have no affiliation with the company and haven't used the product.