Incorporated in 1997, Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI) is a privately held company (100% employee owned) based at the heart of Silicon Valley (Mountain View) in California. MITI is the leading metadata component provider to major database, data integration, business intelligence, repository, and modeling tool vendors. MITI has established itself as the " Switzerland of Metadata " as expressed by then-Giga Information Group Analyst Lou Agosta in a 2002 IdeaByte article. In 2005, Meta Integration received the Technology Partner Award Of The Year by Cognos, and DM Review's readers nominated Meta Integration as a company that provides total quality customer satisfaction in its December 2005 issue on Readership Merit Awards. MITI tools manage and analyze the complete enterprise metadata life cycle across heterogeneous vendors. Solutions range from reusable Metadata Integration (MI) components to full Metadata Management (MM). Recently, Gartner has positioned Metadata Management in 4th position of its Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008 (see reports from ZDnet, Search CIO, Manufacturing Computer, Computer World)