With MX software and support from Informatica, vendors of popular query and reporting tools can quickly create a metadata link between their products and the PowerCenter repository.
Software vendors can integrate PowerCenter metadata with their products through different methods, from pulling the PowerCenter metadata into product or user repositories to providing dynamic desktop pass-through access.
The next generation of MX, called Metadata Exchange SDK, provides an object-based application programming interface (API) to read and write metadata in Informatica repositories.