IDERA – ER/Studio Data Architect

ER/Studio Data Architect Use Cases

Data modelers and architects have to respond to multiple levels of data-related business needs. Some key activities that may need their attention include:

• Build out a data model as part of a development cycle
• Discover and document existing assets across the data landscape
• Create and populate a data warehouse
• Build out an enterprise data model
• Catalog metadata for data governance or data quality initiatives
• Perform an impact analysis of new policies or projected changes to models, databases, or data fields

ER/Studio Data Architect helps to address all of these situations, with robust logical and physical modeling, data dictionaries, forward and reverse engineering, and more.

• Create effective data models to build a business-driven data architecture
• Document and enhance existing databases to reduce redundancy
• Implement naming standards to improve data consistency and quality
• Effectively share and manage data models across the enterprise
• Map data sources and trace origins to enhance data lineage

Design Effective Data Models

Data modeling helps organizations make better business decisions with accurately interpreted and rapidly changing data. Model data from relational, NoSQL, big data, BI and ETL sources. Whether you are creating a new model from a conceptual diagram or reverse-engineering from an existing database, IDERA ER/Studio Data Architect is a powerful tool that helps you easily and effectively design and manage your logical and physical data models.

Build a Business-driven Data Architecture

Data professionals need to ensure that everyone in the organization understands what the data is and can explain it in business terms. ER/Studio Data Architect provides an easy-to-use visual interface for data modeling professionals to document, understand, and publish information about data models and databases so they can support business objectives.

Reduce Redundancy

Import and reverse-engineer content from multiple data sources into logical and physical data models, and integrate the elements into reusable constructs with an enterprise data dictionary. Easily compare and merge differences between data models and databases to reconcile changes. Leverage rich text editing along with relationship font and color inheritance to enhance model content and appearance.

Improve Data Consistency and Quality

Assign a naming standards template to your model, submodel, entities, and attributes. Those naming standards will be applied automatically between the logical and physical models, simplifying the data modeling process and ensuring consistency between models. With Data Architect Professional, you can also integrate model elements into reusable constructs via a built-in enterprise data dictionary.

Share and Manage Enterprise Data Models

The multi-level design layers in ER/Studio Data Architect allow for the accurate visualization of data. Manage data model version control and share data assets in the repository included with Data Architect Professional. Create and track tasks and view changes to data models aligned to agile development methodologies.

Enhance Data Lineage

Universal mappings provide links between instances of the same concept across models and databases to enhance traceability, and data lineage diagrams show the source, target, and transformation details for connections between databases, models, metadata, and data sources. Organizations can obtain a clear understanding of where their data originated, where it is used, and what the data actually means.

Extract and Integrate Complex Metadata

If you are working with ERP or CRM software such as SAP and Salesforce and wish to integrate the source metadata into your data models, IDERA offers Safyr® solutions to handle this quickly. Safyr analyzes the complex structures of these applications, extracts important metadata from ERP, CRM and other enterprise applications, and exports it into a model file that can be brought into ER/Studio Data Architect.

Merits of the Model Repository

The Model Repository for ER/Studio Data Architect Professional provides modelers with real-time collaboration features for sharing and re-using assets across data modeling projects. ER/Studio Data Architect users can connect to the same repository to work on models simultaneously and leverage features including an enterprise data dictionary (EDD), version control, and change management. Repository-based collaborative modeling provides modeling teams significant advantages, including:

• Controlled access to data models and projects in a collaborative environment
• Ability to display, access, and reuse common elements across models
• Granular check-out and check-in of diagrams, sub-models, and objects
• Conflict resolution at check-in to eliminate model differences
• Alignment of modeling changes to development tasks and workflows
• Clear and effective change tracking and audit trail for compliance
• Version management for objects and models with named releases
• Secure access to all assets to maintain data model integrity and privacy

Compare ER/Studio Editions

ER/Studio Data Architect is available in two editions: The standard ER/Studio Data Architect edition is the feature-rich tool with extensive data modeling capabilities across multiple relational and big data platforms, along with import bridges for other common modeling tools. The ER/Studio Data Architect Professional edition also includes the model repository for version control and agile change management.