ER/Studio 8.0.3 Now Available

Embarcadero’s award winning data modeling application for logical and physical database design and construction is available for download on Embarcadero’s free trial page. ER/Studio 8 includes many new enhancements including Visual Data Lineage, Attribute-level submodeling and Object-level compare flags.

If you are an existing customer and in a current maintenance contract, you are entitled to ER/Studio’s latest updates.

Upgrade to ER/Studio 8.0.3 in the Upgrade Center.

Modeling With an Industry Standard Data Model

Embarcadero, a database tools and developer software company, is pleased to present an upcoming webinar with guest speaker Karen Lopez on May 27, 2009 at 11:00am/pt. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more on the benefits and gotchas of working with acquired data model patterns.

Embarcadero features monthly webinars on data modeling, change management, database administration, SQL optimization and application development. To learn more, visit Embarcadero’s Events page.

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EXCLUSIVE FREE WEBINAR

featuring guest speaker Karen López from InfoAdvisors

Starting With More Than a Blank Page: Modeling With an Industry Standard Data Model

Have you ever considered using pre-existing pattern models to jump start your data modeling projects? Have you considered purchasing proprietary models? Did you know that there are hundreds of models available to you for free or for minimal cost?

Many industry trade associations publish industry standard data models (ISDMs). These models focus on the core and supporting business functions associated with retailing, health care, criminal justice and other industry sectors. They may be provided free to the public or for just the cost of joining a trade association.

In this presentation, Karen Lopez discusses some of the benefits and gotchas of working with acquired models – industry standard models, patterns, and other universal model concepts. This session includes topics such as:

• The costs, benefits, and risks of working with industry standard data models
• The benefits of using industry standards in your package acquisition projects
• Choosing the right process
• Myths in working with pattern models
• 10 Tips for successfully working with third-party models
• What you should know before committing to project plans and estimates
• Lessons learned
• Resources

Find out what other organizations are doing with industry standard data models — how vendors and industry organizations are partnering to set standards that your organization will want to leverage for better meet the business needs of your solutions.

About the speaker:

Karen López is a principal consultant at InfoAdvisors, Inc., a Toronto-based consulting firm specializing in project, data and process management. She has 20+ years of experience in project and data management on large, multi-project programs. Karen specializes in the practical application of data management principles. Karen is also the ListMistress and moderator of the InfoAdvisors Discussion Groups at www.infoadvisors.com.

May 27, 2009

11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT

Reducing Time to Market with Real-time Business Intelligence and Metadata Reporting

As part of the Products team at Embarcadero, one of the best parts of my job is getting time in front of customers.  There is nothing more important or more valuable than getting honest feedback from those customers that use our tools everyday. This is an exercise that is critical after any new product launch for understanding if the product is meeting its intended purpose.

We launched the ER/Studio Enterprise Portal in August of 2008 (see the press release) with the primary goal of providing a Google like search engine for metadata that could be accessed by  the data modeling teams, development teams, business analysts and executives. The product launch was one of the most successful in Embarcadero history (until the launch of Embrcadero All-Access in February 2009), attracting new market segments  and pulling key customers from our CA ERwin and Sybase PowerDesigner competition.

So, it was with great pleasure to sit down and chat with a senior manager of a enterprise data management group of a very large Fortune 500 financial services company, and get a feel for how they were using one of Embarcadero’s newest tools, ER/Studio Enterprise Portal.

The team of eight are responsible for the company’s data governance and data quality initiatives and support more than 175 systems. They have been a loyal ER/Studio and ER/Studio Enterprise Repository client for the past three years and use the product religiously for all of their data modeling tool needs. So, it was no surprise that they were one of the first early adopters of the Enterprise Portal. What I learned from the interview was that they were in the process of launching a new business unit and a group of finance and business analysts were required to access the corporate metadata to run various risk models. The Enterprise Portal enabled them access to a centralized self-service reporting tool that allowed them to analyze the metadata stored in the ER/Studio Repository through a business friendly, search-engine like interface.

As a result, both the business and IT users were able to access the metadata and other information needed to make strategic business decisions to launch the new business unit more quickly. “With ER/Studio Enterprise Portal, the team can instantly access enterprise data assets for use in systems development, integration, data governance and regulatory compliance. The powerful reporting and search technology makes it easier for the team to share data stored in  the ER/Studio Repository,” said the manager of the Enterprise Data Management group. “And, its web-based nature enables the Enterprise Data Management team and users company-wide to effortlessly browse, search and report on metadata quickly and accurately.

I love to get honest feedback and hear how our customers are using our tools.

You can read the full Case Study online in our Customer Stories section.

The ER/Studio Enterprise Portal allows you to communicate your ER/Studio Repository metadata across the organization in an easy-to-use browser-based reporting tool to:

• Reduce metadata redundancy
• Centralize reporting and processes
• Increase compliance with data standards and regulations
• Eliminate stand-alone spreadsheets and documents

You can download your own Enteprise Portal trial on Embarcadero’s download trial page

Five Ways Modeling Can Help Improve and Promote Enterprise Collaboration

One of the things we hear over and over again from our customers, is that they need help evangelizing and marketing data modeling across their organization. There are several features within ER/Studio Enterprise that can have a huge impact on how you can improve communication and collaboration with your business and IT stakeholders. Afterall, marketing is all about effective communication.

Register for Jason Tiret’s live webinar Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 11:00am PDT where he will walk you through some of the newest features in ER/Studio Enterprise that can help you improve and promote enterprise collaboration. Learn how you can use the ER/Studio Repository, EA/Studio Business Modeling and the robust metadata reporting and search functionality in ER/Studio Enterprise Portal – all INCLUDED within ER/Studio Enterprise – to change the way you evangelize data modeling.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT

LIVE WEBINAR
Five Ways Modeling Can Help Improve and Promote Enterprise Collaboration

In less than one hour, you will learn how 5 features in ER/Studio® and the Enterprise Portal will transform your data architecture and improve collaboration with executives, business users and IT.

We are all being forced to do more with less and must constantly demonstrate the value of modeling in the enterprise. ER/Studio Enterprise now including Enterprise Portal, has standard features that will help you improve how you model, report and share vital data and metadata. 

Join Jason Tiret, Embarcadero’s Director of Modeling, as he discusses tips and tricks within ER/Studio that will both save you time and help market the benefits of modeling in your enterprise. Learn how to:

• Internally market within your organizations
• Bridge the gap between business and technical stakeholders
• Automate the distribution of reports to your user base saving you time and money
• Communicate and enforce standards
• Keep up with changes to live databases

Who Should Attend:

Data architects, data modelers, data management executives, data stewards, business analysts, developers, and anyone concerned with improving how data is shared across an enterprise.

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Barclays Wealth Cashes in on ER/Studio for Data Modeling

Jennifer Devine, Senior Architect at Barclays Wealth recently did a product review of Embarcadero’s database design and data modeling tool, ER/Studio,  for the Information Management Magazine on May 1, 2009. Read the  article on the Information Management Magazine Website.
It is a great article that quickly summarizes how a major global financial services provider like Barclays uses Embarcadero ER/Studio across both Oracle and SQL Server to solve some serious pain points this group was experiencing around standardization and collaboration. They needed a stable data modeling tool that allowed them both to enforce a common tool across the business while providing a location to store and share the enterprise resource data for education and communication purposes for technical and non-technical employees. Ms. Devine goes into further detail about Barclays’ selection criteria, why they made the switch to ER/Studio and list of product strengths.
Read the  article on the Information Management Magazine Website.