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The Whitemarsh Metabase software system is enterprise database software, and was designed to support the answering of the following critical questions:
Mission Analysis: What are the essential missions that define the very existence of the enterprise, and that are the ultimate goals and objectives that measure enterprise accomplishment from within different business functions and organizations?
Functional Analysis: What procedures are performed by groups in their achievement the various missions of the enterprise from within different enterprise organizations?
Organizational Analysis: Which organizations are accomplishing what aspects of missions with what databases, information systems and through which functions?
Resource Life Cycles: What are the key Resources (facilities, materiel, staff, etc.) How are they sequenced, interrelated, and how are they supported through databases and information systems?
Information Needs: What information (a.k.a., query results or reports) is needed by various organizations in their functional accomplishment of missions and what databases and information systems provide this information?
Database: What data is needed to support enterprise resource life cycle nodes, how are the databases defined within data architectures, and how and where are those databases deployed and then used by business information systems in support of mission accomplishment? Also, what are the data model details of the databases?
Data Modeler: What are the context independent semantic templates of data elements and how are these configured into models of data (the consequence of policy execution) determined as needed by functional experts in support of enterprise missions, and how are these specified data model requirements configured into implemented databases that ultimately operate within various organizations as they perform the functions needed by enterprise missions? Also, what are the models of data used by Business Information Systems?
Business Information Systems: Exactly what are the business information systems, where are they, how are they related to mission, organization, function, and databases, and how are they interrelated to each other including their calendar and business event execution schedules? What is the impact on these business information systems when policy (a.k.a., data) is required or changed?
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