You can organize, simplify, and manage the process of developing and maintaining multiple data warehouses and other integration projects by using a repository domain. You connect repositories within the repository domain.

A repository domain consists of a single global repository and any number of local repositories. The global repository is used for storing and reusing shared metadata.

You can save any metadata that you plan to share across repositories in the global repository. Local repositories can then use shortcuts to objects in the global repository shared folders, or you can create copies of objects in unshared folders. You can also copy objects in shared folders.

You can share data and metadata between global and local repositories by copying individual repository objects and entire folders within and between repositories. You can also use the Designer to create shortcuts to reference objects in other repositories.