SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW)

Common Warehouse Metamodel

A standard that is recognized by the Object Management Group (OMG) and that describes the exchange of metadata in the following areas:

• Data Warehousing
• Business Intelligence
• Knowledge Management
• Portal technology

CWM uses

• UML to model metadata
• MOF to access metadata
• XMI to exchange metadata

You can find the current CWM specification on the OMG home page.