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Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced that its Advantage Repository technology for z/OS, OS/390 and distributed systems has been listed in the "Leader" quadrant in Gartner, Inc.'s Metadata Repositories 2004 Magic Quadrant Report. Magic Quadrant Leaders are vendors that are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. "CA continues to evolve its Advantage Repository solutions to meet the growing needs of IT organizations -- which include documentation and management of increasingly diverse data warehouse information assets across the enterprise, regulatory compliance and rapid response to changing business imperatives," said Douglas Starnes, executive committee product chair, Advantage Repository Users Group. "Our members especially value recent enhancements such as the new stored procedures capabilities and XML interface with CA's AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler, both of which have helped streamline and integrate critical metadata management processes." CA's Advantage Repository enables organizations to understand, manage and leverage enterprise-wide information assets for data warehousing, data administration, ERP and application development. It enables consistent business rules and taxonomy across the enterprise and promotes effective communication between business and technical workers. Upcoming releases will deliver a new intuitive web interface, new metadata exchanges for XML DTD and ODBC, and enhanced infrastructure support. "CA's success in the data repository market is a result of the unmatched technical quality of our solutions, our unique understanding of today's increasingly complex IT environments, and our keen understanding of how organizations leverage information assets to optimize business performance," said Rob Levy, senior vice president of research and development at CA. "We appreciate Gartner's positioning of CA in the leader quadrant, as we continue to aggressively invest in our enterprise-class repository solutions to help our worldwide customers meet their new information management challenges."