Client Partners are benefited in the following ways:
- Ease of Participation—The primary goal of the CMR is to enable organizations to participate in making their resources and capabilities available to the Earth Science community. To facilitate participation by these organizations, the CMR has:
- Minimized the number of requirements that a partner must meet to participate.
- Involved partners in the system's development cycle and requirements definition.
- Selected metadata insert and update mechanisms, that are based on current standard industry practice (for example, XML), and that most databases can generate automatically.
- Provided mapping capabilities to convert from one XML representation into another.
- Cost to Field—The CMR minimizes the Cost to Field by continually evaluating performance and functionality against costs — such as licensing of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) applications, amount of custom code required, hardware platform requirements, and complexity of networking and installation.
- Cost to Operate—Once fielded, CMR Operations costs are minimized through enhanced efficiency and extensive automation, thereby reducing the need for support from operations staff.