QUALIFYING QUESTIONS
CA ERwin Model Manager
• Do you have more than one license of ERwin Data Modeler?
• Does your modeling team need to collaborate so that they don’t
‘step on each other’ when changes are made?
• Do you need to track versions or audit trails for changes?
• Do you have a Data Governance project in place?
• Need a single repository to store your model-related metadata?
CA ERwin Data Profiler
• Do you need to compare your model design with real-world
instance data?
• Are you looking to improve the quality of your data?
• Do you have legacy systems for which you need to document
primary and foreign key structures?
• Need to compare data from multiple systems for a merger,
acquisition, MDM or DW effort, etc.?
CA ERwin Process Modeler
• Are you looking to relate your data assets to the key business
processes which use this data, such as customer info?
• Do you need to document business processes in your
organisation?
• Are data flow diagrams important to you?
CA ERwin Data Model Validator
• Do you need to validate the quality or structural integrity of your
data models?
• Are there new members of your team who are not familiar with
modeling that need to learn relational theory?
CA ERwin Data Model Navigator
• Are there members of your team who only need read-only access
to your models, such as business analysts?
CA ERwin Saphir Option
• Do you need to integrate your ERP systems with other data
sources for a data warehousing, MDM, or data consolidation
effort?
• Do you need to understand the data structures of your ERP
systems?
• Are you having trouble understanding the cryptic column and table
names in your ERP system? Do you want them translated to ‘user
friendly’ names?
CA ADVANTAGE
CA ERwin® Data Modeler leads the Data Modeling market and has
been in the market for 20 years As a result, CA ERwin understands
CA ERwin® r7.3 Modeling Family
that data modeling is at the heart of your data-focused initiatives, and
has kept its core focus on data modeling in its 20 years on the market. — Partner Pocket Guide
Other vendors tout data modeling as a side product of application
development, enterprise architecture, or application modeling. CA
sees things the other way around—data modeling is our focus, and
we provide you with a rich set of tools and best-practices to support
data modeling.
Award-Winning Solutions
• CA ERwin Data Modeler is the winner of the 2008 Visual Studio
Readers’ Choice Award for modeling tools.
• CA ERwin Data Modeler is the winner of the 2007 Riding the
Crest Award from Programmers’ Paradise for the most-often
selected tool by customers in the Database Design/Modeling and
Database Deployment and Migration categories.
Overall Challenges
• CA ERwin Data Profiler’s underlying technology solution was voted
Most Innovative MDM Technology at the TDWI Master Data Quality information management is as critical to any organisation’s
Management Insight Conference in 2008 success as the quality of the goods or services they provide. Business
agility and market adaptation requires faster, better decisions based
ADDITIONAL SALES TOOLS on accurate and consistent data. Companies must manage and
maintain their data while facing increasingly complex challenges such
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The CA ERwin® Modeling family of products is built around our
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is our flagship product that supports organisations in designing
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CONTACTS Data and information is a strategic asset in your customers’
organisations today. To that end, CA has built a wide range
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CA Representative or visit www.ca.com/partners/contact. of products that support your customers’ data modeling and
information management—from the ability to visualise how core
business processes relate to strategic data assets with CA ERwin®
Process Modeler, to the ability to compare their live instance data
values with database design with CA ERwin® Data Profiler.
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SOLUTION: CA ERwin® r7.3 Modeling Family
CA ERwin® Data Modeler is an industry-leading data modeling
solution that enables you to create and maintain databases,
data warehouses and enterprise data models so that you can
successfully moderate data complexities, effectively manage
database technologies and properly align your information delivery
infrastructure.
CA ERwin® Data Modeler
• Data modeling with design layers
• Metadata import/export
• Naming standards
• Reporting with Crystal Reports
In addition to the core CA ERwin® Data Modeler product, CA offers
several other products in the CA ERwin Modeling Family to help
manage and understand your customers’ data infrastructure. Data
modeling is our strength, and we provide a rich set of tools which
support data modeling and the disciplines that surround it.
CA ERwin® Data Profiler – New product for data profiling and
cross-system analysis.
• Cross-system data profiling
• Compare actual data to model design
• Foreign key discovery in legacy data
• Helps improve data quality
CA ERwin® Process Modeler – Link business processes with their
associated data assets.
• Business process modeling
• Data flow modeling
• Activity-based costing
• Relate business process to data assets
CA ERwin® Data Model Validator – Check the structural integrity of the
models.
• Analyses structural integrity of models
• Provides detailed diagnostic reports
• “Teach me” facility
CA ERwin® Saphir Option – Understand the structure and meaning of
ERP System data.
• Create a data model for ERP systems
• Translate cryptic column labels into user-friendly names
• Organise vast number of tables into subject areas
CA ERwin® Model Navigator – Read-only access for a wide range of
non-modeling users.
• Read-only view of data models
• Great tool for business analysts
CA ERwin® Model Manager – Multi-user collaboration and model
management.
• Model management
• Metadata management
• Collaboration
An overview of these products and their relationships to the
facilitation of strategic data modeling to create a “single version of
the truth” is shown below.
CA ERwin Data Modeler: At the centre of your data management initiatives
NEW FEATURES IN RELEASE 7.3
ENHANCED DATABASE CURRENCY AND SUPPORT
CA ERwin DM now delivers enhanced out-of–the-box full relational
support for Teradata v2.6/v12 as well as new support for SQL Server 2008.
ENHANCED METADATA EXCHANGE
CA ERwin provides bi-directional metadata exchange with a variety
of tools meaning you can share critical business and technical
information contained in your metadata to improve the consistency
and efficiency of your enterprise-wide initiatives.
FLEXIBLE REPORTING CAPABILITY
CA ERwin DM includes a simple to use mechanism to effectively
produce a multitude of predefined and ad-hoc reports: new ODBC-
based reporting feature coupled with Crystal Reports 2008, an
industry leading report generator.
SQL QUERY TOOL
The SQL Query Tool empowers users with the ability to query
database and catalogue information, quickly browse model metadata
and validate reporting syntax – all from within the comfortable
confines of CA ERwin DM.
CUSTOMISABLE FORWARD-ENGINERING TEMPLATES
CA ERwin Data Modeler allows you to create and modify the way DDL
is created via powerful and easy to- use templates. CA ERwin DM now
includes an integrated Forward- Engineering (FE) Template Editor and macro
scripting language (TLX) to create, view and modify database template files.
MICROSOFT VS TS DB EDITION INTEGRATION
The integration of CA ERwin DM with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team
System Database Edition 2008 (VS TS DB Edition) provides a rigorous
platform from which organisations can manage and assure the
development and deployment of their critical SQL Server applications.
COMPLETE COMPARE IMPROVEMENTS
CA ER win DM r7.3 introduces several improvements to further
simplify our single-pass Complete Compare functionality that greatly
improves the overall usability and enhances ease-of-use.
KEY DIFFERENTIATORS
Integration
• CA ERwin Data Modeler provides bi-directional metadata
exchange across a wide variety of database platforms, MDM
hubs, data integration tools, business intelligence tools, Metadata
Repositories, other modeling tools, etc.
• CA ERwin’s robust API facilitates programmatic integration for
your customers.
• CA ERwin Saphir Option provides ERP system integration.
Cross-System Analysis
• CA ERwin Data Profiler integrates cross-system analysis and data
profiling with visual data modeling for a robust data and metadata
discovery, analysis, documentation and reuse solution.
• CA ERwin Data Modeler’s Complete Compare Facility provides the
ability to analyse structural differences between diverse database
structures that support multiple technologies, project, and regions.
• Metadata inference, cataloguing, transformation and reuse provide
integrated import/export from a variety of diverse systems and
databases. CA ERwin DM provides the ability to visualize this
information in an intuitive diagram, create standards and naming
conventions, manage this information in a common repository,
and easily report and export this information to a variety of
stakeholders across both the your customers’ business and IT.
CustomiSation
• CA knows that each of your customers’ organisations is unique. To
this end, CA ERwin Data Modeler allows the modeler to create and
modify the way DDL is created via powerful and easy-to-use templates.
• Naming standards can be created and customised for your
customers’ unique organisational standards.
• Subject areas allow your customers to organise model information
in alignment with their individual model structure or organisational
hierarchy.
Reporting
• CA ERwin’s reporting capability using Business Objects’ Crystal
Reports combines best-of-breed reporting with best-of-breed
modeling and information management.