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Metadata Market Study Report
Recently, the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (CC CDQ, a European consortium research program) engaged with Fraunhofer Institute for...
Setting up Oracle for Embarcadero ER/Studio – Part 2
Howdy! Welcome to the next installment of the series. In today's series, we will explore the options for Oracle Client Setup needed for...
Setting up Oracle for Embarcadero ER/Studio – Part 2
Howdy! Welcome to the next installment of the series. In today's series, we will explore the options for Oracle Client Setup needed for...
Setting up Oracle for Embarcadero ER/Studio – Part 1
In this blog post, I will be covering how easy it is for one to setup Oracle, in order to successfully work with Embarcadero's leading...
7 Dangerous Myths DBAs Believe about Data Modeling
How much does your DBA really know about data modeling? Data modeling can simplify routine tasks and provide valuable context for a database...
Are Your Data Models Agile or Fragile: Documentation
Last month I developed a whitepaper and a webinar on data modeling in an Agile environment. These works focused on what we as data...
IDC Technology Spotlight: Enabling Enterprise Agility Through Model-Driven Data Design
IDC Technology Spotlight: Enabling Enterprise Agility Through Model-Driven Data Design There is a growing need to build and integrate databases with...
Demystifying Macros with ER/Studio
In the webinar, Demystifying Macros with ER/Studio, Embarcadero Software Consultant Stanley Chan demonstrated how macros work in ER/Studio. He...
Are You Working on an Agile Project? Should You Be?
At EDW this year Ron Huizenga, Product Manager for ER/Studio, and I led a SIG discussion about working on agile projects...as a data modeler. As...
Video: ER/Studio Support for Hadoop Hive
Since data stored in Hadoop is almost always used for analytics, and because of its immense volume and wide variety, the need for data modeling has...
Model Your Hadoop Hive Databases with ER/Studio
With round-trip database support, data modeling professionals can use ER/Studio Data Architect to easily reverse-engineer, compare and merge, and...
Improve Agility and Collaboration with ER/Studio XE7
On April 28, 2015, Embarcadero announced the XE7 release of our award-winning ER/Studio data modeling and architecture suite, with new features to...
Comprehensive Data Security Requires Metadata – by Rob Loranger
Anthem Inc. – 80,000,000 records stolen; Sony Pictures – 100 terabytes of data stolen; JP Morgan Chase – 70,000,000 records stolen; and EBay –...
ER/Studio MetaWizard Does The Magic!
Often times you would hear about moving objects from one Data Modeling platform to another for various reasons. Embarcadero's Meta-Wizard...
Now available: Data Architect 10.0.2
We are pleased to let you know that a minor point release for Data Architect 10.0 is now available! Version 10.0.2 contains a few enhancements from...
Embrace the Future of Data Architecture: Make the Switch to ER/Studio
Sometimes you need to face the inevitable: the tool selected years ago is not the one you need for the future. Have you been struggling with...
Why Do Data Modelers Experience So Much Conflict on Agile Projects?
I spoke about agile methods, including Scrum, and data modeling in my Heart of Data Modeling webinar this month. One of the topics I touched upon...
Seven Deadly Sins of Database Design
If you don’t get the data right, nothing else matters. However, the business focus on applications often overshadows the priority for a...