The word meta means "about." Hence, meta data is information about a data source, including details such as:

• How the data is formatted,
• By whom was it collected,
• Who changed it and when, and
• How and when the data was collected.

The concept of meta data is essential to data integration and to seeMore products. Meta data provides the information necessary to make strategic use of enterprise information. seeMore stores meta data in order to:

• Know where to access data,
• Determine its format in order to use the proper application interface to access the data,
• Maintain audit records of access and changes to data, and
• Determine the location for data replication as well as the replication schedule.

seeMore is a Corporate Data Operating System that enables a company to make strategic use of all its enterprise-wide information. It helps companies solve the dilemma of accessing and making use of corporate information when it is scattered across all corporate locations and stored in disparate formats.

seeMore servers enables a company to create a central data dictionary of all enterprise-wide information. With this catalog of information about all of a company's data sources, an organization can easily access, view, manage, replicate, update, query and deploy any of its corporate information regardless of data format or location.

Using seeMore, applications can:

• Access and update the data they need from one or more data sources simultaneously as if it were a single data source without knowing their exact locations;
• Use seeMore's application interfaces to be able to interact with disparate data sources;
• Take advantage of seeMore's security and audit features to protect confidential information;
• Create virtual views of information from multiple data sources to provide applications with the data they need, when they need it, even if it doesn't exist within a single data source.

In today's complex and fast-moving information systems environments, data integration is becoming a critical issue; it costs too much, and slows down the implementation of enterprise applications. IT departments use seeMore to plug'n'play data sources, simplifying the task of integrating disparate data sources, and providing applications with the information they need rapidly and easily.

A company seeking to move faster or gain competitive advantages by making strategic use of its information can use seeMore to:

• To make use of information in business entities involved in mergers or acquisitions;
• To set up information portals;
• To feed valuable information to corporate applications, such as e-commerce, supply chain and customer relationship management;
• To access and continue to use legacy data sources;
• To enable the use of legacy applications with new data sources;
• To buffer applications from their data sources, eliminating the dependency on writing custom integration code;
• Provide decision support systems and report generators with access to any and all the data they need, regardless of the data's location or format;
• Update data marts or data warehouses with information from disparate data sources.

With its ability to enable a company to make strategic use of all enterprise wide information, quickly and easily, seeMore solves the data integration dilemma, while reducing costs, speeding up application deployment and simplifying application maintenance.

seeMore believes, to quote an old expression, "the proof of the pudding is in the tasting." — We make evaluation copies of seeMore products available to qualified prospects in order to:

• Enable prospects to determine seeMore's suitability to their application needs, and
• Demonstrate the power, comprehensive functionality, and ease-of-use of seeMore.

To request an evaluation copy, click here.

seeMore products are a comprehensive and robust solution that makes easy work of resolving the challenges of integrating disparate corporate data. It allows IT staffs to create a centralized corporate data dictionary of all enterprise information regardless of location or data format. seeMore then uses this data dictionary to provide applications and users with any information that they require, promptly when they need it.

To begin, use seeMore Designer to import data source schemas and file structures in order to map these data sources to the seeMore data dictionary. It's a simple straightforward process that requires minimal time to accomplish for each data source.

Mapping names are assigned in seeMore Designer for each field, with the opportunity to define:

• security, including access rights and privileges;
• synonyms;
• aliases;
• replication and update controls;

Once a data source is mapped into seeMore seeMore Designer, it is available for transparent access by user applications.

When fast-moving situations necessitate changes in data mapping, user access, or other changes, it's a simple task to update the data dictionary with seeMore Designer, saving IT staff the time and effort it would take to manually integrate the data.

Using seeMore, it's easy for end-users to access and manage their information, easily and automatically. The process for an end-user to get their information works as follows:

• The end-user, running their business application - makes a request for data.
• The application makes the request to seeMore's Standard Database Server or Virtual Database Server to find the data.
• seeMore references its data dictionary to locate the data, determines the format the data is in, and confirms the user has the right access privileges for the information.
• seeMore then uses this information and the appropriate data source interface to access the data.
• Upon receiving the information, seeMore passes it back to the end-user application.

The Result: the end-user gets the information they need, when they need it, and in the appropriate format. seeMore makes it fast, easy and totally transparent to the end-user.

seeMore makes it easy to create and populate data tables from multiple data sources to create a virtual view of information.

To create a virtual view, you simply:

• Use seeMore Designer to create and name the new table for the virtual data dictionary to reside in.
• Specify the data sources and their specific data fields to be included in the table.

By cataloging the enterprise data location information in a seeMore data dictionary:

• Users and user applications do not have to know the specific locations of enterprise-wide data sources. They merely call seeMore, and it locates the information.
• Applications are buffered from their data sources, allowing you to add or remove data sources in a plug'n'play fashion.

seeMore relieves users of the burden of having to know the exact location of the data they need. Application programmers do not have to code the application with the specific data integration code for each specific data source. seeMore knows where the data is and feeds it to the application.

To access data within seeMore, users only have to run their applications. The user must have the proper access privileges to access, view, update or make use of the information or seeMore will not permit the request.

Application developers find seeMore invaluable for its ability to buffer an application from its data sources. seeMore enables application development without having to write data integration code for the data sources applications may need to work with.

Using seeMore, an application developer:

• Doesn't need to know the exact location of data sources;
• Is freed from having to write custom code to make use of disparate data formats since seeMore's application interfaces handle data access;
• Can create an application that uses views of information from multiple, disparate data sources to provide an application with the information it needs;
• Is able to respond rapidly and easily to changes in data sources or data structures by simply making changes with the seeMore seeMore Designer instead of revising the application;
• Can focus their development skills on creating application functionality instead of mundane data integration capability. Better applications result.

seeMore is powerful complement to application development. It enables a company to:

• Speed up application development and deployment;
• Make strategic use of all its enterprise information;
• Improve application quality and functionality;
• Reduce development lead times and costs;
• Simplify application maintenance.

seeMore set out to revolutionize the integration of disparate corporate information through the introduction of our seeMore Corporate Data Operating System. seeMore breaks new ground in its ability to provide comprehensive, powerful, and easy to use data integration capability. Unlike most other market offerings, seeMore offers the following unique features:

It's an Open Solution. seeMore designed seeMore to be used with any applications including decision-support, and report generation and business intelligence tools. The architecture does not limit your choices, options, or flexibility in any way. seeMore uses application interfaces to the most common data standards and formats, while also providing the flexibility to easily create an application interface to any unique data source in minimal time.

It's a Comprehensive Solution. While competitors may offer data integration capabilities that are designed for particular application interfaces like XML, JDBC or OLE DB or are oriented toward relational databases, seeMore provides a comprehensive answer to the broad spectrum of complex integration needs faced by companies.

Whatever your information integration requirement, seeMore can provide an answer. You can use it to harness the power of your enterprise information whether you are: · deploying Deploy modern e-commerce, supply chain or customer relationship management solutions that must make use of disparate data from multiple data sources.

• Access multiple data sources simultaneously, as if they were a single data source,
• Request data without knowing where it physically resides,
• Integrate data from acquired companies with existing,
• Preserve valuable legacy data for use with new applications,
• Use new data sources with legacy applications, or
• Deploy modern e-commerce, supply chain, or customer relationship management, solutions that must make use of disparate data from multiple data sources.

seeMore offers the power and flexibility to work with all the data sources you need. Its robust features, such as security and audit capabilities, and its ability to provide replication, snapshots, events and alerts, and persistent messaging, help you craft effective, complete applications.

seeMore is a complete answer to your data integration dilemmas, not a partial one.

Unmatched Ease of Use. seeMore provides powerful integration capabilities, and enable users and IT staff to take advantage of its simplicity, ease of use, and comprehensive features. Recognizing that IT staffs face a growing workload and operate under intense pressure, seeMore made seeMore easy to implement and manage for IT departments and completely transparent to end-users.

World Class Support. seeMore's expertise in developing applications and its expertise in resolving the challenges of data integration to support efficient application development inspired its creation of seeMore. seeMore's business practice is to ensure our customers' and partners' succeed with seeMore in order to achieve our mutual business goals.