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Lightning Strikes Twice: MetaTrieval Software Brings Database Metadata Search Engine to Excel

Though the ubiquitious Relational database has now been in existence for a full generation or more, never before has there been an efficient solution to the "hard problem" of metadata search and data-discovery for them. First with MetaTrieve, and now with MetaTrieveXL, this bottleneck has finally been broken. The result is a duo of products that allow information- seeking users throughout virtually any company or organizational department to easily and intuitively close the loop between being able to initially discover where data is located and then query the data once found.

June 7, 2004 -- Following on the heels of its ground-breaking January 2004 release of MetaTrieve – an integrated database metadata search and query tool - MetaTrieval Software, LLC, announces MetaTrieveXL (MetaTrieve Extra-Lite), an economical database metadata search engine for Excel. Like its predecessor, MetaTrieveXL is the first and ONLY vendor-neutral, enterprise-wide, natural-language metadata search engine for relational databases, providing huge productivity gains for business and IT users in locating company data for data discovery, data mining, data integration and information querying, reporting and other imperatives. MetaTrieveXL offers an easy-to-use interface, dynamic synonym matching and customizable search criteria. With MetaTrieveXL, locating data elements throughout distributed and heterogeneous Relational database environments need no longer be the time-consuming effort it has been in the past.

Existing users of the MetaTrieve search engine have found that it provides a low learning curve, intuitive ease of use, low total-cost-of-ownership and dramatic productivity benefits!

Continuing with its dual business-development strategy, MetaTrieval Software, LLC reiterates the availability of the MetaTrieve search engine in object-code format for technology-licensing purposes. This will allow MetaTrieve's high-value/high-productivity metadata search and data discovery functions to easily be embedded in database-centric products from other vendors providing applications covering a wide range of functions such as ETL, EAI, data-mapping, Business Intelligence, Data-Marts or Data Warehouses, Enterprise Service Bureaus or Metadata Management. Integrating MetaTrieve with their software will allow application vendors in these areas to greatly enhance the productivity of their offerings.

MetaTrieval Software is also partnered with Element5, Inc. to enhance MetaTrieve and MetaTrieveXL with Macrovision's robust encryption & anti-piracy protection, and to handle all their e-commerce, order processing and order-related customer care functions.

Privately held, MetaTrieval Software, LLC was formed in 2003 by a group of partners with extensive technology and research backgrounds. MetaTrieval Software, LLC was founded with the objective of identifying significant IT bottlenecks, create products to resolve these, and unlock previously constrained productivity. The MetaTrieve and MetaTrieveXL products are the initial fulfillment of this mission.