Interactive Reporting Studio utilizes available metadata to simplify data models. By applying metadata naming conventions and descriptive information, metadata makes the information locked away in database tables and columns more accessible.
Metadata can be applied in several ways in Interactive Reporting Studio. If you have a source of metadata stored on a database server, Interactive Reporting Studio users can use the Open Metadata Interpreter to link it to data models and automatically apply the metadata information.
The data modeling features of Interactive Reporting Studio provide ways to add the benefits of metadata if you don’t have a centralized metadata source. Interactive Reporting Studio automatically makes topic and item names more intelligible, and enables you to customize and change the appearance of these entities.