Bill Inmon on Data Warehouse 2.0 and Modeling

Learn How Data Warehouse, Metadata, and Modeling Are Being Transformed

Data warehousing is in a constant state of evolution. From a simple data warehouse to ETL, to data marts and operational data stores, data warehousing has continued to evolve over the years. Enter DW 2.0, the architecture for the next generation of data warehousing. DW 2.0 recognizes the life cycle of data within the data warehouse and the need for unstructured data as well as the need for a formal and powerful metadata infrastructure and data modeling strategy.
Join the leading authority and “Father” of data warehousing, Bill Inmon, for an insightful webinar on modeling and metadata management strategies for Data Warehousing 2.0.
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM PDT/ 2:00 PM EDT
In this complimentary one-hour webinar, you’ll learn:

• How the Data Warehouse, Metadata, and Modeling environment will be transformed in the next few years—and what you need to do to leverage it for your business

• The major components of Data Warehouse 2.0 architectures and the role of metadata and modeling

• Key modeling and metadata management strategies for Data Warehousing 2.0

All webinar registrants will also receive a complimentary copy of Bill Inmon’s white paper, “Data Warehousing 2.0 – Modeling and Metadata Strategies for Next Generation Architectures”.
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About the Presenter:
Bill Inmon
President and CTO
Forest Rim Technology, LLC

Bill Inmon, “the father of data warehousing”, has written 50 books translated into 9 languages. Bill founded and took public the world’s first ETL software company. Bill has written over 1000 articles and published in most major trade journals. Bill has conducted seminars and spoken at conferences on every continent except Antarctica. Bill holds three software patents. Bill’s latest company is Forest Rim Technology, a company dedicated to the access and integration of unstructured data into the structured world. Bill’s website – inmoncif.com - has attracted over 1,000,000 visitors a month. Bill’s weekly newsletter in b-eye-network.com is one of the most widely read in the industry and goes out to 75,000 subscribers each week.

Don’t miss this live event!
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM PDT/ 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Register today.

April 21, 2010



All webinar registrants will receive a complimentary copy of Bill Inmon's Whitepaper

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Fast-Tracking Data Warehousing and BI Projects via Intelligent Data Modeling Webinar Replay

It takes more than desire and pressure to fast-track data warehousing and BI projects. Key stakeholders, architects, and database professionals need intelligent data modeling to speed comprehension and collaboration on enterprise data sources, processes, and systems.  Join BI and data warehouse expert, Claudia Imhoff, for an insightful webinar replay on intelligent data modeling practices to design and deliver superior BI faster.  

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

• The characteristics and benefits of intelligent data modeling

• How to promote the use of data models to fast-track data warehouse and BI projects

• Three key ways to use data models to streamline collaboration, design, and implementation of superior BI solutions

• How to avoid the four biggest traps that hinder BI projects

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Claudia Imhoff
President
Intelligent Solutions, Inc.

About the Speaker:
Claudia Imhoff, President of Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
A thought leader, visionary, and practitioner in the rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and customer focused-strategy – Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D., is a popular and dynamic speaker and internationally recognized expert on analytical CRM, business intelligence, and the infrastructure to support these initiatives – the Corporate Information Factory (CIF). Dr. Imhoff has co-authored five highly-regarded and popular books on these subjects and writes monthly columns and articles (totaling more than 100) for technical and business magazines. She has served on the Board of Advisors for DAMA International and was chosen by the DAMA organizations to receive the 1999 and 2005 Individual Achievement Awards. She is an advisor and a faculty member for The Data Warehousing Institute and serves as an advisor for several technology and commercial companies. Dr. Imhoff founded Intelligent Solutions, Inc. (www.IntelSols.com), a well respected Business Intelligence and CRM consulting and education firm in 1992. Her company has successfully implemented over 150 Corporate Information Factory architectures in all industry areas.

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Embarcadero Webinar: What’s New in Modeling Tools

Introducing ER/Studio Enterprise 8.5

SAN FRANCISCO – Oct. 20, 2009 — Join Embarcadero on Wednesday, October 21 at 11 a.m. PDT for a live one-hour webinar on “What’s New in Modeling Tools.”. Learn first-hand what new ground-breaking technologies are being built into today’s most innovative modeling tools.

Jason Tiret, Embarcadero’s director of modeling and design solutions, will introduce and demonstrate the latest release of ER/Studio® Enterprise 8.5. This release is packed full of many new advanced data modeling and communication features to enable end users to design, manage and document the toughest of projects faster and easier. Data architects, data modelers, DBAs, database developers, business analysts, developers and anyone concerned with improving how information is shared across an enterprise is invited to attend.

Register today to see some of the great new features in action, such as:
• Creating UML diagrams in ER/Studio’s latest modeling addition
• Using process modeling and data modeling in a shared repository
• Browsing and reporting Visual Data Lineage diagrams through an online Portal
• Bi-directional workflow commenting between ER/Studio and Portal
• Object Labeling through the Portal

To register for this webinar, visit: http://bit.ly/47taTC.

To download a trial of ER/Studio Enterprise 8.5, go to: http://bit.ly/2pc5CG.

About the Speaker:
Jason Tiret is the director of modeling and design solutions for Embarcadero Technologies. He has more than 10 years of experience in data modeling, metadata and database management. He currently manages Embarcadero’s entire product line of award-winning modeling solutions. In this role, Jason has consulted with many Fortune 500 companies, published articles for various industry magazines, and has been a frequent speaker on the topics of data architecture, metadata and data governance.

About Embarcadero Technologies
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.

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Embarcadero Expands Flexibility for Data Modelers with ER/Studio Enterprise 8.5

Embarcadero Technologies, a provider of multi-platform database tools and developer software, has announced the general availability of Embarcadero's flagship data modeling suite, ER/Studio Enterprise 8.5. This newest version of Embarcadero's data modeling tool combines process modeling, data modeling, application modeling and reporting into a comprehensive design and modeling solution.

Key themes of the new release are tighter integration of components within the suite, support for better collaboration and communication between modelers as well as non-modelers, and overall enhanced productivity.

A big part of enhancements within the new release are to enable data architects to better communicate with their communities and their organizations, Jason Tiret, director of product management for modeling and design solutions, Embarcadero, tells 5 Minute Briefing. Supporting this effort, Tiret notes, are new UML modeling features for business and software modeling, as well as integration of ER/Studio Business Architect with the ER/Studio Repository and ER/Studio Portal to allow data modelers to better communicate with the business.

The new release includes new workflow communication facilities with Web 2.0 technologies like bi-directional commenting between ER/Studio Data Architect and ER/Studio Portal to assist and streamline communication and model review with non-modelers. As a result, there is now the ability to comment on objects in the model with workflow-status kinds of comments to help modelers better collaborate better together and so they don't have to clutter up the metadata in the models, explains Tiret. "They can now have a specific place that they can put comments that are geared toward workflow and review in the product and that will actually feed out to the ER/Studio Portal and allow non-modelers to view those comments and to add comments. It is not only to streamlining communication, and the workflow and peer review process among modelers but it also going to help those modelers communicate with non-modelers like DBAs, developers, business analysts and business users that need access to the metadata and want to actively help with the modeling process."

ER/Studio Enterprise 8.5 also includes updated DBMS features for the latest editions of Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 LUW, InterBase and Teradata

For more details about ER/Studio Enterprise 8.5, go here.

Posted Oct 8, 2009

Top Five Reasons to Switch from ERwin Data Modeler to Embarcadero ER/Studio

With full availability of ER/Studio® 8.5 only a few weeks away, Embarcadero Technologies is focused on educating data modelers about the benefits of ER/Studio versus ERwin® Data Modeler. Today, Embarcadero issued the top five reasons to make the switch.

• Superior Productivity Using a Model File System - ER/Studio allows users to create multiple, mutually independent physical models from one common logical model within the same .dm1 file; ERwin requires multiple files to achieve the same effect thus losing the traceability between the logical and physical artifacts. ER/Studio’s separate but integrated approach offers the user a complete, easy to understand solution for synchronizing and updating logical models, physical models and live databases without having to manage and synchronize many loose files.
• Superior Traceability With Lineage and Metadata Impact Analysis - ER/Studio provides features for maintaining the traceability between the original logical model and multiple physical models.  Coupled with ER/Studio’s ability to maintain multiple models within the same file, impact analysis is far easier and more reliable than with ERwin.  In addition to reports, ER/Studio also provides a “Where Used” feature which includes even more capabilities.
• Superior Productivity Through Diagram Layout & Navigation Features – ER/Studio is designed to dramatically increase user productivity through superior navigation of large, complex data models. This saves time when searching for deeply buried elements in a model.  ER/Studio provides a number of features to assist with the management of large models.
• Superior Documentation and Communication – ER/Studio Enterprise includes a web portal that allows for near real-time publication of the information contained in the ER/Studio repository.  The portal allows developers, DBAs and business analysts to browse, search and report on the model metadata via a web browser.  It drastically streamlines the process of communicating the models by offering a “self-service” method for publishing the information.  Data architects no longer need to refresh reports any time a model changes.  The portal has a separate reporting repository that is optimized for searching and reporting that is kept in sync with the ER/Studio repository.
• Superior Reliability & Advancement – Embarcadero’s focus has always been centered on helping companies design, build, optimize and run their critical software applications and databases. Unlike CA, Embarcadero doesn’t have the vast array of over 1,300 products to support and maintain. We have a clear competitive advantage on deciding which products to support and build out.  With a dedicated support center and committed staff to help, we are able to resolve  issues quickly and efficiently without the hassle of dealing with an outsourced  support solution like ERwin that often can be long and drawn out.

ER/Studio continues to be the fastest growing database design and modeling tool on the market, not only for Embarcadero’s reliable support staff, but also for the reliability of the product performance and frequency of enhancements. Embarcadero has a strong investment in research and development behind ER/Studio, releasing multiple product enhancements each year to meet the demanding modeling requirements and reliability standards of large enterprises now and in the future. Our customers frequently tell us valuable time and resources are lost to basic functionality and bugs found in ERwin. Reliability and advancement are no longer optional in organizations that depend on database design and modeling for speed, competitiveness and uptime.

Get an advanced look at some of the exciting new features in ER/Studio 8.5 at the online Preview Center http://www.embarcadero.com/er-studio-sneak-peek.

Read to complete comparison at http://etnaweb04.embarcadero.com/erwin

About Embarcadero Technologies
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.

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ARTS Leverages Embarcadero’s ER/Studio to Build Industry-Standard Data Models and XML Schemas

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Washington, July 27, 2009–The Association for Retail Technology Standards, the standards division of the National Retail Federation, announced today that it is adopting Embarcadero Technologies’ award-winning suite of database software tools, including its ER/Studio Enterprise data modeling tool, DBArtisan database administration tool, and Change Manager database change management tool. ARTS will use the tools to build industry-standard data models and XML schemas for the retail industry and to maintain its existing library of 17 schemas associated with its operational and warehouse models.

“Through our agreement with Embarcadero, we will now have the optimum tools to develop new data models and XML standards as well as enhance what we already have in place,” said Richard Mader, executive director of ARTS. “We’ve heard loud and clear from our volunteer committee that they could benefit from tools that allow for multiple concurrent users and that generate formats which are compatible with other modeling tools. Now we’re able to answer that call.”

“We’ve invested significant time and effort into building a rich collaborative environment to support the worldwide base of ARTS members who contribute to the development of retail technology standards,” said Kirstin H. Wright, Chief Visionary Officer for Retail Anywhere and chair of the ARTS Data Model Committee. “The Embarcadero toolset will support this effort by enabling us to effectively harness our richest resource, our members, and make efficient use of their valuable time to build ARTS standards bigger, better and faster.”

“ARTS delivers a great service to its members by offering them valuable data model templates and XML structures that give them a head-start on their retail systems projects,” said Jason Tiret, director of modeling and design solutions, Embarcadero Technologies. “Our tools will help ARTS continue to advance their standards efforts and, with features like the Repository included with ER/Studio, its global committee members can better collaborate on the ARTS Retail Data Model.”

The ARTS Retail Data Model, currently in version 6.0, is in use around the world, supporting a full range of computer applications to operate retail businesses across multiple segments such as Shell International Petroleum Company, McDonalds, Nike and many others.

ARTS expects to fully convert its data models to ER/Studio by the end of July. All future versions of the Data Model beyond 6.0 will be developed in ER/Studio, but will also be available to members using other tools.

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.

The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) is an international membership organization dedicated to reducing the costs of technology through standards. Since 1993, ARTS has been delivering application standards exclusively to the retail industry. ARTS has four standards: The Standard Relational Data Model, UnifiedPOS, IXRetail and the Standard Requests for Proposal. Membership is open to all members of the international technology community- retailers from all industry segments, application developers and hardware companies. www.nrf-arts.org.

Data Modeling Tools Compared: Embarcadero ER/Studio v. Erwin

More and more companies are using data modeling to respond to changing business conditions, reduce data redundancy and comply with regulatory standards. But which data modeling tool can deliver the advanced features that make working with even the most complex data models more accurate and reliable? Which tool makes it easier to collaborate across the enterprise? Which vendor is committed to aggressively advancing your data modeling tools and providing you with direct-to-vendor support?

 

This Podcast will compare Embarcadero® ER/Studio® with CA ERwin and give an overview of how advanced data modeling tools, backed by world-class vendor support, lets you benefit from:

• Improved productivity with superior auto layout and model navigation
• More flexible design layers with separate, but integrated logical and physical models
• Improved comprehension and knowledge sharing with better reporting and communication capabilities
• Improved standards compliance and component reuse
• Customizable XSD Generation and Visual Data Lineage
• Comprehensive support
• Flexible licensing options that dramatically reduce your total cost of ownership

Interested in this topic, but prefer alternative content formats? Try:

• Webcast: Don't Fight Your Data Modeling Tool: Migrate from CA Erwin to Embarcadero ER/Studio