Enterprise Data Management and Lineage

Embarcadero Technologies has the data modeling tools for the problem of tracing where data comes from and goes to within a system. The recently released ER/Studio 8.0 includes the new Visual Data Lineage, which is designed to help data architects and modellers deal with consolidation, integration and compliance issues.

It offers a visual representation of data lineage within an enterprise, making it possible to conduct an impact analysis between data sources and targets, as well as to visually analyse and document data flow without having to inspect code.

Enterprise Data Management and Lineage

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Embarcadero ER/Studio, an industry-leading data modeling tool, helps you discover, document, and re-use data assets.

• True separation of logical and physical models
• Heterogeneous DBMS support
• Diagram layout engines and navigation
• Flexible architecture

With round-trip database support, data architects have the power to easily reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize existing databases. Productivity gains and enforcement of organizational standards can be achieved with ER/Studio's strong collaboration capabilities.

ER/Studio^® Offers:

• Model-driven design environment
• Complete database lifecycle support
• Enterprise model management
• Enterprise communication capabilities
• Data warehouse and integration support
• Quality database designs

What's New

ER/Studio 8.0 offers a new visual data lineage component to perform impact analyses between data sources. This allows users to visually analyze and document how data flows through the organization. ER/Studio 8.0 also includes new time-saving features for attribute-level sub-modeling and Compare options. For a complete list of new features in ER/Studio 8.0, see the New Features Guide.

Database Monitoring Tools | DB Optimizer

Embarcadero DB Optimizer helps to maximize database performance. This SQL profiling tool lets you quickly discover, diagnose, and optimize poor-performing SQL. By discovering data-intensive or frequently executed queries, focusing in on specific SQL statements through query statistics (i.e., CPU, I/O, wait times), and optimizing any problematic statements, DB Optimizer helps you to eliminate performance bottlenecks.

DB Optimizer offers:

• Graphical visualization of wait-time analysis to easily pinpoint the SQL causing poor database performance
• Hyperlinked drill-downs for locating detailed activity information for an individual SQL statement
• Explain plans for a better understanding of how SQL will be executed and the performance costs
• Real-time Quick Fixes to flag and correct inefficient SQL automatically (Oracle)
• Batch tuning of DML statements, stored routines, entire SQL files and the System Global Area (Oracle)

Wait time analysis gives you a complete performance profile from the end-user's point of view, making it possible to truly improve overall database performance.

Related Products

• Embarcadero® Performance Center™ 24/7 database performance monitoring for maximum database availability and performance.
• Rapid SQL® Write high-performance, quality SQL in an integrated cross-platform database development environment.
• DBArtisan® The leading cross-platform database administration solution, helps DBAs maximize performance, availability, and security.
• Embarcadero® Change Manager™ A complete set of schema, data, and configuration tools to manage the database change management lifecycle.
• Embarcadero® All-Access™ Instant access to the languages, tools, and technologies to design, build, and run your software applications and database systems.

Reduce The Cost Of Enterprise Data Management

In today's economic climate, organizations are under increasing pressure to boost productivity while reigning in costs. Embarcadero All-Access™ (database tools and developer software toolkit) addresses these challenges by providing you and your teams with on-demand access to the tools you need, when you need them.

The industry's first on-demand, multi-platform software tool chest for application and database developers, architects, and DBAs

• Provides the application development and database tools you need, when you need them, across all major platforms, frameworks, and programming languages
• Dramatically simplifies tools licensing and deployment
• Reduces the cost and complexity of acquiring and managing your tools

Saving Time And Money With Database Management Software

For those in the data management community, including roles such as database administrators (DBA’s), data architects and data stewards here, there has never been a more challenging period to effectively  manage data assets within organisations. With data growing at mind bending speed and the demand for new and diverse applications further driving data growth, these professionals are seeking ways to be more productive and ultimately be free to focus on and meet their respective service level agreements (SLAs).

Ten Ways For DBA's To Save Time

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With that, there is a  leading industry product that will help with database management, DBArtisan.  Here is an analysis of the top 10 reasons to use DBArtisan.

Return on Investment

• Reduced Ownership Costs – DBArtisan’s cross-platform support for Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase and DB2 allows your DBAs to standardize on a single desktop administration tool. Fewer licensed tools equates to reduced upgrade and maintenance expenses.

• Reduced Training Costs – DBArtisan’s common interface and support for Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase and DB2, flattens the learning curve associated with moving between DBMS platforms.

• Reduced Personnel Costs – DBArtisan’s common interface for Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase and DB2 allows even your most junior DBA to be immediately productive across all of these platforms. There is a diminished need to recruit and retain DBAs with platform-specific skill sets, typically the highest paid of your DBA staff.

Enterprise Application Support

• Increased Staff Productivity – DBArtisan’s common interface for Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase and DB2 increases productivity by allowing your DBAs to concentrate more on the “what to do” rather than the “how to do” specifics behind their most complex administrative tasks. New database requests or open support calls can be closed quickly and with confidence that the implementation was done right the first time.

• Higher Application Quality – DBArtisan’s wizard driven and graphical tools for creating and maintaining database objects help eliminate error-prone manual coding and shield your DBAs from dbms specific syntax constraints. Additionally, DBArtisan greatly reduces the risk associated with complex database changes by allowing your DBAs to test and debug their stored code before introducing enhancements or fixes to your production environment.

• Higher Application Performance – DBArtisan provides the right diagnostic and tuning capabilities to ensure your most critical data-driven applications not only perform, but that they perform well.

• Higher Application Availability – DBArtisan’s graphical diagnostic tools allow your DBAs to quickly identify session, space or performance related database problems. Tight integration with the available correction facilities allows them to move easily between diagnosing and correcting database related outage conditions.

Business Decision Support

• Proactive Problem Solving – DBArtisan provides the advanced tools you need to anticipate and avoid business-damaging outage situations. Intelligent, built-in database sizing utilities empower you to analyze historical usage trends, assess your current needs and proactively plan for the future growth of your organization’s data assets.

• Intelligent Resource Allocation – DBArtisan’s advanced space and performance management capabilities allow you to balance your resource load by helping your identify overloaded or under utilized resources within your test and production environments.

Peace of Mind

• Improved Security – DBArtisan helps you safeguard your most critical data assets by allowing you to quickly monitor and control security for the supported platforms all from one common console. Additionally, user session activity can be monitored down to the executing SQL code, so you can quickly view and act on the sessions connected to your key enterprise databases.

Database Management Beta Programs | Database Tools from Embarcadero

Greg Nerpouni talks us about some great beta programs going on with RapidSQL Developer 2.0 and DB Optimizer 1.5.  If you would like to register for the programs, click here to apply!

Rapid SQL is a leading cross-platform SQL IDE that helps database and application developers produce high quality SQL code faster.  Embarcadero DB Optimizer lets you quickly discover, diagnose, and optimize poor-performing SQL. Discovering data-intensive or frequently executed queries, focusing in on specific SQL statements through query statistics (i.e., CPU, I/O, wait times), and optimizing any problematic statements, DB Optimizer eliminates performance bottlenecks.

On-demand Access: The Business Tools You Need

In today's economic climate, companies are under intense pressure to boost IT and R&D productivity while simultaneously reigning in costs. Embarcadero® All-Access (database tools and developer software suite) addresses these challenges by making it easier than ever to acquire, deploy, use, and manage the full range of tools you need to run your business. Embarcadero's tools help you reliably manage your systems, boost productivity, and help with your compliance needs. All-Access gives you all the power of Embarcadero's tools through a single offering and letting you choose what you need when you need it.

All-Access gives you cost effective, on-demand access to all the tools you need to design, build, and run software applications and database systems for all your platforms and programming languages.

Embarcadero All-Access is the industry's first on-demand, multi-platform tool chest for application and database developers, architects, and DBAs.

• Comprehensive, multi-platform tool chest
• Dramatically reduced total cost of ownership
• Easy license acquisition and management

Here are some great reviews that Embarcadero is getting in relation to All Access:

• InfoWorld
• TechWorld
• SDTimes
• TechRepublic
• Network World
• TechBit
• eWeek
• Media Caffe
• iblog365
• News Log.com
• 4KidsNUs (blog)
• Heise (German)

Data Modeling Tools to Reduce SOX Time And Costs

Embarcadero, a database tools and developer software company, wants to help customers understand Sarbanes-Oxley requirements – as IT controls are extensive and wide-ranging. No matter what aspect of database management or what database platform – Embarcadero has you covered. And you can rest assured that your existing desktop and database access controls will secure your use of Embarcadero’s tools for enforcing data standards, managing changes, and administering users and other database security controls, proper performance and capacity planning, and meeting SLAs.

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ER/STUDIO ENTERPRISE: DOCUMENTING DATABASES AND BUSINESS PROCESSES
Embarcadero ER/Studio, an industry-leading data modeling tool, helps companies discover, document, and re-use data assets. With round-trip database support, data architects have the power to easily reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize existing databases. Productivity gains and enforcement of organizational standards can be achieved with ER/Studio's strong collaboration capabilities.

IMPLEMENTING SOX CONTROLS WITH ER/STUDIO
ER/Studio assists you in maintaining the following controls:

•Define the Information Architecture

•Data Classification Scheme

•Integrity Management

•Business and Technical Requirements

Click here for more info and a free trial download of the industry’s leading data modeling tool

Data Modeling With Jason Tiret

Everyone knows that data volumes are increasing at enormous rates but is knowledge of the data, and more  importantly knowledge within the business, increasing with it? Jason Tiret examines the best practices on how data models are used to improve service enterprise data management.

Effective Data Models| Data Management - Free Legal Forms

Embarcadero ER/Studio, an industry-leading data modeling tool, helps companies discover, document, and re-use data assets. With round-trip database support, data architects have the power to easily reverse-engineer, analyze, and optimize existing databases. Productivity gains and enforcement of organizational standards can be achieved with ER/Studio’s strong collaboration capabilities.

ER/Studio offers:

• Model-driven design environment
• Complete database lifecycle support
• Enterprise model management
• Enterprise communication capabilities
• Data warehouse and integration support
• Quality database designs

What’s New

ER/Studio 8.0 offers a new visual data lineage component to perform impact analyses between data sources. This allows users to visually analyze and document how data flows through the organization. ER/Studio 8.0 also includes new time-saving features for attribute-level sub-modeling and Compare options. For a complete list of new features in ER/Studio 8.0, see the New Features Guide.

Supporting Legacy Data Repository For Financial Systems

“Embarcadero clearly offered the best data modeling solution to meet our requirements. ER/Studio matched our high-priority functional requirements including high-quality HTML, mapping functions, and good
metadata repository capabilities. Embarcadero ER/Studio does exactly what it says on the tin, and stood up against our high expectations.”
– Andy Davidson, Senior Designer, Data Management Services

Supporting Legacy Data Repository For Financial Systems

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DB Optimizer Beta Program

As a valued customer of Embarcadero Technologies, you have been invited to join the Embarcadero DB Optimizer beta program!

Embarcadero DB Optimizer helps to maximize database performance by enabling developers and DBAs to quickly discover, diagnose, and optimize poor-performing SQL. DB Optimizer eliminates performance bottlenecks by discovering data intensive or frequently executed queries, focusing in on specific SQL statements through query statistics (CPU, I/O, wait times), and optimizing any problematic statements.

A few of the new features in DB Optimizer version 1.5

• Multi-platform tuning - DB Optimizer 1.5 now includes tuning for Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, and DB2 - including hints, SQL rewrites, index analysis, and explain plan comparison
• Continuous profiling - In DB Optimizer 1.5, profiling can be run constantly, keeping one hour of time in its window and tossing out any profiling data older than a hour – the hour can be saved at any point and act as a snapshot
• Command line interface - Allows schedulers or other products (i.e. Performance Center) to launch profiling jobs
• UI enhancements for eased navigation and simplified workflow
• Unicode support
• SQL Server 2008 support

To participate in this beta, you will need to fill out the initial application and then sign the Master Beta Test License and Non-Disclosure Agreement. Once that is complete, we will promote you to a tester and you'll start receiving program updates, including the information to download the build.

I would like to thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to join our beta program.

Apply for this Opportunity

Sincerely,
Greg Nerpouni,
Senior Manager, Product Management
Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.

Economic Impact Of DBArtisan Forrester

Forrester’s in-depth interviews with Embarcadero’s customer yielded several important observations. DBArtisan provided significant productivity gains among its application development, database administration, and IT infrastructure staff measured in terms of labor cost savings.

Total Economic Impact Of DBArtisan Forrester

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DBArtisan can help improve availability, performance, and security of enterprise databases. Based on these findings, companies looking to implement DBArtisan can see cost savings and productivity benefits. This study is meant to provide the reader with a framework to examine the costs and benefits.

Embarcadero Technologies - Database Tools Video Series

Today Embarcadero Technologies, a great database tools and developer software company, kicked off its formal video series, hope you enjoy!

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com

What’s New In Delphi 2009

Delphi is your solution for rapidly building high performance Windows applications.

Delphi® 2009 provides all the tools needed to build rich, powerful Windows applications with ease. Combining a bountiful component library, an intuitive editor, and a fullfeatured debugger, Delphi 2009 provides the developer with everything needed to build all types of Windows applications. From the desktop to the web to the server, Delphi 2009 is the tool of choice for Windows developers.

 

New Delphi 2009 Opens a World of Opportunity

Delphi 2009 helps you meet the challenges of the rapidly expanding global market, and expand the reach of your applications to more users. But that’s just the beginning.

• Give your user interfaces a fresh, updated look with new and enhanced VCL controls.
• Build applications that handle global data with ease using new Unicode support throughout the IDE and VCL
• Move your code into the future with the addition of generics and anonymous methods to the Delphi language
• Build powerful, efficient and secure database applications by separating data and business logic with new DataSnap
• Get new insight into your database structures with data modeling and visualization in the all new Delphi Architect edition

Managing Data Strategically

Data yields information when its definition is understood or readily available and it is presented in a meaningful context. Yet even the information that may be gleaned from data is incomplete because data is created to drive applications, not to inform users. Metadata is the data that holds application data definitions as well as their operational and business context, and so plays a critical role in data and application design and development, as well as in providing an intelligent operational environment that's driven by business meaning.

Managing Data Strategically

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Only by presenting data together with its definitions in a meaningful context together with the available online content, and supporting any random combination of queries and actions, can organizations fully harness and
exploit their data assets. These data semantics, effectively applied, enable smarter query and reporting functionality across the entire IT environment, and they enable the delivery of information, derived from structured data, that is meaningful and actionable for the user.

With a unified, global approach to enterprise data, organizations can ensure accuracy, manage regulatory compliance, and ensure that the data infrastructure constantly maps to business needs.

Building User Interfaces with Delphi 2009

The following whitepaper discusses Building User Interfaces with Delphi 2009. Here Marco Cantù covers relevant extensions that Delphi 2009 provides to the VCL library for the development of modern-looking user interfaces. With Delphi 2007 already providing significant support for Windows Vista, Delphi 2009 offers enhancements to several standard controls, from button to edit boxes, so that they'll easily adapt to the latest features provided by the Windows API.

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Build Native Windows Applications | Secrets of Delphi 2009

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Delphi 2009 is the fastest way to build native Windows applications. Delphi® is the RAD Visual development environment for software and database application developers who need to rapidly deliver high performance and easy-to-maintain software applications.

* Increase productivity with time-saving IDE and tools

* Speed development with drag-and-drop functionality and component library

* Easily connect with all your data across multiple sources

INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY WITH TIME-SAVING IDE AND TOOLS

Delphi’s IDE has features that help speed coding so developers can focus on framework design, code logic, and algorithms while rapidly finding the information they need and avoiding coding errors. Features such as Code Completion, Error Insight, Help Insight, Class Completion, Block Completion, and Live Templates enable developers to write code at the speed of thought. The Resource Manager handles the addition of Windows resources to an application, while a full-featured debugger makes examining the internals and execution of code completely transparent. Component-based development and design with new Office-style ribbon controls and Windows XP and Vista theming let you create rich user interfaces with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Classic Database Development Mistakes

Embarcadero Technologies is a database tools and application development tools software company. The following video highlights some Classic Database Development Mistakes, presented by Scott Walz.

• Data is growing at mind bending speed
• The number and diversity of applications is striving to keep up with market demand, which is further driving data growth
• More and more people are needed to manage the data and create the applications
• Nearly 16 million application developers today, growing at nearly 2 million annually
• Time to market, quality, and predictability of software systems continues to plague the software industry
• Customers need tools that address development of the entire system

Top 10 Reasons To Upgrade To Delphi 2009

Embarcadero Technologies is the leader in database tools and developer software. Delphi® is the RAD Visual development environment for software and database application developers who need to rapidly deliver high performance and easy-to-maintain software applications. Delphi’s IDE has features that help speed coding so developers can focus on framework design, code logic, and algorithms while rapidly finding the information they need and avoiding coding errors.

Delphi Software Development Top 10

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There are still a few die hard developers out there that are using Delphi 7. They do so in the face of an overwhelming onslaught of features and capabilities of the latest version of Delphi, Delphi 2009. Nick Hodges will discuss ten reasons why Delphi 7 developers should upgrade to Delphi 2009. Now, mind you, I am limiting this article to ten items. It could easily be way more than that. But I figure that if these ten aren’t enough, I can write “Ten More Reasons to Upgrade from Delphi 7”.

Cross-platform database administration

DBArtisan is the leading cross-platform database administration solution for maximum availability, performance, and security. Embarcadero Technologies Inc., empowers application developers and database professionals with database tools to design, build, and run software applications in the environment they choose.

Database Management and Administration Software | DBartisan from Embarcadero Technologies

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DBArtisan offers: * Highly automated cross-platform solution * Schema management * Security management * Data management * Proactive diagnostic and management tools Embarcadero DBArtisan helps DBAs maximize availability, performance and security. DBArtisan's comprehensive graphical editors and wizards boosts productivity, streamline routine tasks and reduce errors so DBAs can manage larger, more complex databases. DBArtisan supports all major database platforms allowing organizations to standardize on one solution. Download a free trial today!