Support for SQL Azure, new Web Portal helps stakeholders visualize data assets across the business.
ERwin solutions from CA Technologies
Today’s resource-strapped organizations struggle to manage data complexity and share accurate information as new platforms and increasing volumes of data are added to their IT environments.
CA Technologies today announced the following products:
- CA ERwin Data Modeler for SQL Azure
- CA ERwin Web Portal
- CA ERwin Data Modeler r8.2
With CA ERwin data modeling tools, business and technical users can reap the benefits of a centralized, common view of business data in context.
This enables them to better understand and enforce critical data definitions and more easily leverage information as a strategic asset.
The products are described in more detail below:
CA ERwin Data Modeler for SQL Azure
“By providing essential data management capabilities to the full range of users who need them, CA ERwin empowers IT to meet its escalating challenges with a new level of control, reliability and efficiency,” said James Forbes-May, Vice President of Data Management, Asia Pacific at CA Technologies.A new solution that helps customers manage and integrate their Microsoft SQL Azure cloud database environments.
Using familiar modeling paradigms, it provides visibility into data assets and the complex relationships between them.
This enables customers to remain in constant control of their database architectures even as they move to public, private and hybrid IT environments.
Another new solution that enables organizations to get more value out of their data, providing full visibility into the metadata that describes the business context of data assets.
This includes definitions, structures and relationships between data.
This clear and complete insight also helps IT better manage and mitigate the risk associated with data-related change.
CA ERwin Data Modeler r8.2
“Cloud computing is often associated with rapid development and deployment, but is sometimes interpreted as a license to cut corners on analysis and design,” said Dale Vile, CEO and managing director at Freeform Dynamics Ltd. “As more people look to cloud-based environments such as SQL Azure, tools that allow developers to move quickly, but without sacrificing structure and discipline, have an important role to play.”Facilitates collaboration across the enterprise with new concurrent licensing and Active Model template functionality.
Concurrent licensing enables users to more easily share and manage licenses across the organization, which is especially useful for large enterprises with automated software distribution and/or distributed modeling teams.
New Active Model templates make it easier to share and reuse model objects across models while leveraging existing data assets—driving additional cost savings and quality improvements from modeling initiatives.
Products in the CA ERwin family are highly interoperable
For example, CA ERwin Data Modeler can graphically define the structure and meaning of information to help improve data quality and data management efficiency for both on-premise or cloud databases.
The CA ERwin Web Portal can then share that information with a wide variety of stakeholders through next-generation visualization and analysis techniques.