MetaVis ARCHITECT, with its intuitive, graphical interface, lets you create SharePoint metadata and hierarchies in record time. Right from the beginning, your sites will be easily understood and well documented. Load, synchronize, and provision your new model quickly, thanks to ARCHITECT’s full integration with SharePoint.

MetaVis ARCHITECT enhances SharePoint 2007 to render metadata that is:

• More Usable – Through its visual and intuitive design process, ARCHTECT lets users and designers construct and deliver metadata structures that strike the right balance between the user experience and content “find-ability”.
• Compliant – By providing awareness of metadata structures system-wide in design and maintenance of metadata structures, organizations ensure that consistent standards are followed. The entire SharePoint metadata structure is maintained in a centralized location, providing a “Single Source of the Truth” and a means to manage SharePoint growth.
• Accelerated ROI – Design one provision many times allows organizations to quickly create new SharePoint environments and maintain existing ones in a cost-effective manner.

MetaVis ARCHITECT visualizes a SharePoint environment through two-dimensional graphical diagrams. The application allows users to edit diagram elements and subsequently provision or synchronize updates to the repository. As an architect or a business user, the ability to graphically visualize the metadata environment provides the system-wide awareness necessary to design efficient models.

MetaVis loads the environment into intuitive diagrams that not only expose the metadata structures but also their relationships. Using these diagrams, designers can:

• Create and modify metadata to meet business needs
• Reuse entire structures or individual metadata types from other places by simply dragging them into the diagram
• Provision them into any connected application

When you are ready to roll out a model, MetaVis ARCHITECT connects to the SharePoint repository and compares the design versus the current environment. Upon approval, the system automatically deploys individual, selective or all changes to your environment. MetaVis Architect COMPARE Plug-In adds another layer of functionality for architects and administrators. COMPARE identifies any differences between two or more SharePoint sites including columns, content types and lists/libraries and allows you to selectively or completely synchronize these sites. Ideal for uses such as multi-stage deployment, compliance monitoring and replication, this functionality allows architects to maintain control over their environment.

While MetaVis ARCHITECT® is intended to simplify and accelerate the process of designing and deploying SharePoint schemas, MetaVis CLASSIFIER is focused on organizing SharePoint content and its metadata within these schemas. CLASSIFIER provides capabilities to tag content with new values and content types; move or copy content to different folders, lists, sites or servers; or do both at the same time.