Embarcadero Webinar: How Meaningful Use Impacts Healthcare Data Management Professionals

Embarcadero Technologies and healthcare IT expert Shahid Shah on Wednesday, July 14 at 2:00 p.m. EDT for an insightful one-hour webinar that explores the impact of Meaningful Use (MU) and the certification of electronic health record (EHR) systems on data management professionals.

To register for this free webinar, visit the registration site.

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, created an opportunity to improve the performance of the nation’s health system through an unprecedented investment in health information technology. However, healthcare entities must implement 25 major MU requirements into their EHR systems to qualify for a piece of the billions of dollars in government incentive funds.

Healthcare architects, developers and DBAs developing information systems must be thoroughly familiar with MU to understand how the requirements will change their existing and future implementations. A recent survey of healthcare IT professionals conducted by Embarcadero shows that close to 60% are in the process of implementing an EHR system.

Webinar attendees will learn:
• An explanation of ARRA, HITECH, MU, and certification
• How technical personnel such as data architects, DBAs and developers will be affected by MU
• The best ways to determine the MU gaps that might be found in existing systems
• The types of additional expertise technical personnel may need to meet MU
• How quickly systems will need to be modified and deployed to adhere to MU rules

Registered webinar attendees will also receive a complimentary copy of Shahid Shah’s white paper, “How Meaningful Use Impacts Healthcare Data Management Professionals.”

About the Speaker
Shahid N. Shah is an internationally recognized and influential healthcare IT thought leader who is known as "The Healthcare IT Guy" across the Internet. He is an Embarcadero consultant and he also advises various federal agencies on IT matters. Shahid has architected and built multiple clinical solutions over his almost 20-year career and he is a winner of the Federal Computer Week coveted Fed 100 award, which is given to IT experts who have made a big impact in the government. He helped design and deploy the American Red Cross’s EHR solution across thousands of sites; he’s built two web-based EMRs now in use by hundreds of physicians; he’s designed large groupware and collaboration sites in use by thousands; and, as an ex-CTO for a billion dollar division of CardinalHealth, he helped design advanced clinical interfaces for medical devices and hospitals. Shahid also serves as a senior technology strategy advisor to NIH’s SBIR/STTR program helping small businesses commercialize their healthcare applications.

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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Achieving HITECH Meaningful Use and Certification for Data Management Professionals

What Healthcare Data Architects, Developers, and DBA’s need to know about achieving HITECH Meaningful Use and Certification

The HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Stimulus Bill passed in 2009, establishes 25 major “Meaningful Use” (MU) requirements that all electronic medical records systems must implement in order to have their users qualify for billions in government incentive money. These MU requirements will change existing and future implementations, affecting nearly all healthcare architects, developers and DBAs developing these information systems.
Join healthcare IT expert, Shahid Shah, for an insightful webinar on the impacts of meaningful use, certification of electronic health record systems, and what this means to data management professionals.
Date: Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern

In this one hour webinar, you’ll learn:

• What ARRA, HITECH, Meaningful Use (MU), and Certification mean
• How technical personnel such as data architects, DBAs and developers will be affected by MU
• The best ways to determine the MU gaps that might be found in existing systems
• Additional expertise technical personnel may need to meet MU.
• How quickly systems will need to be modified and deployed to meet MU rules

Registered webinar attendees will also receive a complimentary copy of Shahid Shah’s white paper, “How Meaningful Use Impacts Healthcare Data Management Professionals”.

Register today!
About the Presenter
Shahid N. Shah is an internationally recognized and influential healthcare IT thought leader who is known as "The Healthcare IT Guy" across the Internet. He is a consultant to various federal agencies on IT matters and winner of Federal Computer Week's coveted "Fed 100" award given to IT experts that have made a big impact in the government. Shahid has architected and built multiple clinical solutions over his almost 20 year career. He helped design and deploy the American Red Cross's electronic health record solution across thousands of sites; he's built two web-based EMRs now in use by hundreds of physicians; he's designed large groupware and collaboration sites in use by thousands; and, as an ex-CTO for a billion dollar division of CardinalHealth he helped design advanced clinical interfaces for medical devices and hospitals. Shahid also serves as a senior technology strategy advisor to NIH's SBIR/STTR program helping small businesses commercialize their healthcare applications.

Shahid runs three successful blogs. At http://shahid.shah.org he writes about architecture issues, at http://www.healthcareguy.com he provides valuable insights on how to apply technology in health care, at http://www.federalarchitect.com he advises senior federal technologists, and at http://www.hitsphere.com he gives a glimpse of the health-care IT blogosphere as an aggregator.

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Top 5 Things to Know About Managing Multiple Database Platforms

Learn how to extend your current DBA skills into Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, and more

If you’re a DBA, at some point in your career you’ll have to support two or more types of database platforms. Whether they come to you via new applications, a company acquisition, or somehow just pop up (darn those app developers!), supporting databases beyond your comfort zone can be challenging. 
During this lively conversation, Stephen Wynkoop and Scott Walz will present real world examples as they discuss the five things every DBA needs to know when managing multiple database platforms:

1. Schema and data migration and reporting
2. Security management
3. Object management and change management
4. Detecting and diagnosing storage problems
5. Diagnosing and repairing performance problems

Attend this webinar and you’ll learn:

• Proactive techniques you can use to improve database performance
• How setting up a proactive storage monitoring plan can improve availability while decreasing your hardware costs
• How to use the latest tools to increase you own productivity while expanding your skills into unfamiliar databases
• A general understanding of the variables involved in managing multiple database platforms

Register Now!

Speaker Bios

Scott Walz
Scott Walz has more than 15 years of experience in database development and administration and currently serves as the senior director of product management for Embarcadero Technologies. In this position, Scott oversees the direction of the company's database product family, while focusing on database development and administration products. Prior to joining Embarcadero four years ago, Scott served as a development lead for Louisville Gas & Electric. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer information systems from Western Kentucky University.

Stephen Wynkoop
Stephen is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and the founder of SSWUG.ORG. He writes a daily column and newsletter on the site and produces a weekly SQL Server video program on the site. Stephen is the author of more than 12 books translated into 7 languages around the world. Stephen has spoken at numerous technology conferences and reports regularly on the happenings in the technology world.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
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Your registration includes a FREE six month membership to SSWUG.org (worth $US49.95), with unlimited access to:

• More than 100,000 articles and summaries

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Embarcadero Selected as 2010 SD Times 100 Award Winner

Embarcadero wins in Tools & Frameworks and Database & Data categories

SAN FRANCISCO – June 3, 2010 – Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is the proud recipient of two 2010 SD Times 100 awards based on its demonstrated innovation and leadership in the software development community, specifically for its contributions to two categories: Tools & Frameworks and Database & Data.

SD Times editors identified the industry’s top leaders and divided them into 10 categories. Winning criteria included considering each company’s technology offering, how they advanced the software development industry, the company’s reputation, and how much buzz the company and its technology generated within the industry.
“The SD Times 100 reflects the list of companies that we believe to be the best of the best,” said Alan Zeichick, editorial director of BZ Media’s SD Times. “Year after year, Embarcadero Technologies continues to be among our list of winners due to their valuable impact on the software development industry.”

Embarcadero was also an SD Times 100 winner in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009.

About Embarcadero Technologies
Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of software tools that empower application developers and data management professionals to design, build, and run applications and databases more efficiently in heterogeneous IT environments. Over 90 of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero’s award-winning products to optimize costs, streamline compliance, and accelerate development and 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 Ups Ante in Database Tools Market with Multi-Platform, On-Demand XE Products

Embarcadero Technologies, long known for providing premium database design, development and management tools for all major database platforms, is unveiling a new line of database products that carry an XE brand. Embarcadero XE products incorporate three distinguishing features – deep, native support across all major databases with a consistent user interface, centralized license management and on-demand tool access via Embarcadero® ToolCloud™, and an easy upgrade path to Embarcadero® All-Access™ XE.

“So now, we are not only changing how premium database tools are sold, we are transforming how IT organizations can manage, provision and access those tools so they can optimize their technology spend and improve efficiency.”

XE products represent a fundamental shift in the database tools market. Leading vendors, including Embarcadero, have historically offered tools with feature support for multiple databases, but support for each database was sold separately. With Embarcadero’s XE line, support for all database types is included with each product. Embarcadero is also the only vendor providing ToolCloud technology with its products.

“With today’s increasingly complex, heterogeneous database environments, organizations need to maximize the capabilities of IT staff and leverage opportunities for greater automation, efficiency and scale,” said Will Cappelli, research vice president, Gartner. “While domain-specific database tools help meet some of these challenges, companies need to consider how easily these tools can be accessed and managed or their sought-after operational benefits may be limited.”

“We are meeting the challenges of complex IT environments by making it more cost-effective to equip IT staff with the tools they need, while simultaneously making those tools easier to manage,” said Michael Swindell, senior vice president of marketing and products for Embarcadero. “So now, we are not only changing how premium database tools are sold, we are transforming how IT organizations can manage, provision and access those tools so they can optimize their technology spend and improve efficiency.”

Embarcadero XE products are distinguished by the following capabilities:

• Heterogeneous database support: Each XE product includes deep, native database platform and version support for all major databases, including Oracle®, Microsoft SQL Server®, DB2®, Sybase®, MySQL® and more with each product providing a consistent user interface across database platforms.
• Embarcadero ToolCloud-enabled: XE products provide users with on-demand, “zero-install” access to tools, along with centralized license management, which streamline the access, administration and provisioning of tool licenses for organizations with multiple users.
• All-Access upgradeable: Embarcadero products can be upgraded to All-Access XE, a complete, on-demand tool chest for architects, DBAs and developers working in heterogeneous database environments.

Prior to Embarcadero’s new XE product line, data management professionals had two unfavorable options – using rudimentary ODBC/JDBC-based database tools that only provided generic feature support, or using platform-specific tools from database vendors or third-party tool vendors for native feature support and control. Embarcadero’s new XE tools overcome the shortcomings of these options by incorporating deep, native support for all major databases within a single tool, enabling users to extend their skills across both single platform and heterogeneous environments. Inclusion of support for all databases reduces licensing, training and operational costs.

“In the past, a customer would be identified as an Oracle shop or a SQL Server shop, but today’s IT organizations need to manage various types of databases,” added Swindell. “Our new XE products ensure they’re prepared for whatever database comes in front of them.”

XE products also incorporate Embarcadero’s ToolCloud technology. ToolCloud centralizes and simplifies tool licensing and provisioning and gives users click-and-run access to tools via Embarcadero™ InstantOn™ capabilities. This enables users to access the tools they need on-demand with full fidelity and performance and without complex installations.

Embarcadero’s initial introduction of XE products is part of a larger companywide initiative that involves extending the XE brand and capabilities across its data modeling and application development tools later this year. Meanwhile, Embarcadero’s initial line of XE tools include:

• All-Access XE – The industry’s only on-demand heterogeneous tool chest
• DB Change Manager XE – A tool for simplifying, automating and reporting on database changes
• DB Optimizer XE – A tool for heterogeneous database SQL profiling, tuning and monitoring
• DBArtisan® XE – A tool for heterogeneous database administration
• Rapid SQL® XE – A heterogeneous SQL integrated development environment (IDE)

Pricing and Availability

Five Embarcadero XE tools are now available at varying starting prices. Pricing for All-Access XE begins at $2,995, pricing for DB Change Manager XE begins at $795, pricing for DB Optimizer XE begins at $795, pricing for DBArtisan XE begins at $4,995 and pricing for Rapid SQL XE begins at $1,495. All pricing is in U.S. dollars.

About Embarcadero Technologies

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of software tools that empower application developers and data management professionals to design, build and run applications and databases more efficiently in heterogeneous IT environments. Over 90 of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero’s award-winning products to optimize costs, streamline compliance, and accelerate development and innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco with offices located around the world. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com.

Embarcadero, the Embarcadero Technologies logos and all other Embarcadero Technologies product or service names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Embarcadero Webinar: Fast-Tracking Data Warehousing & BI Projects via Intelligent Data Modeling with Claudia Imhoff

SAN FRANCISCO – Jan. 15, 2010 — Join Embarcadero Technologies on Wednesday, January 20 at 11 a.m. PDT for a live one-hour webinar. Business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse expert, Dr. Claudia Imhoff will explore intelligent data modeling practices to design and deliver superior BI faster.

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.

During this free webinar, Dr. Imhoff will discuss:
• 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

Registered webinar attendees will also receive a complimentary copy of Dr. Imhoff’s white paper, “Fast-Tracking Data Warehousing & BI Projects via Intelligent Data Modeling.”

To register for this webinar, visit:

http://www.embarcadero.com/fast-tracking-data-warehouse-projects.

About the Speaker:

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 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 organization 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 CIF architectures in all industry areas.

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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License Management and Tool Delivery Software | ToolCloud

Application Development and Data Management and Modeling Tools proliferate on developer's and DBA's desktops. Embarcadero ToolCloud brings license management and tool delivery benefits to the desktop chaos.

Embarcadero® All-Access™ provides all the application development and database tools you need – when you need them. It’s the easiest to use ‘toolbox’ solution for any size team of developers, architects, performance testers, and DBAs. All-Access is ideal for both large enterprise teams working on a wide range of technologies; and for smaller teams, consultants, and individuals who find their time split across the software development life cycle.

All-Access offers database and application development professionals powerful benefits:

• Get more flexibility: No matter what technology you work with, you’ll have instant access to tools for multiple platforms and technologies.
• Be the expert: The widest array of tools at your disposal to fix the problem at hand
• Do your job faster: A single toolbox puts you in control. Get the tool you want, when you need it without the usual hassles it takes to get a new tool onto your desktop.
• Make your boss happy: For developers and DBAs, All-Access makes it easier to get tools that you need to do your job. Easier for you while keeping your boss happy about an all-in-one price that can easily save more than 3x over point tools.

All-Access gives teams the power of the industry-leading database tools including DBArtisan®, Rapid SQL®, ER/Studio®, and many more. Leading application development tools include Delphi, JBuilder®, C++Builder®, the InterBase® SMP database, and more.

Reduce Costs with Smart Database Optimization Strategies Webinar

Struggling with database performance issues? You’re not alone.   Database performance issues are on the rise -- costing money and impacting operations. We invite you to join us and featured guest Forrester Analyst Noel Yuhanna as he offers expert insights, strategies, and actions to optimize performance and reduce costs in complex infrastructures.  In this webinar, you’ll learn: What are the most common factors causing performance issues, and how have they changed in recent years Impact of data center consolidation, virtualization, and increasingly heterogeneous DBMS environments How database technologies and tools have evolved, and how common optimization approaches may no longer work Proactive best practices for database performance monitoring , SQL tuning, and more Don’t miss this live event! Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009 Time: 11:00 AM PT/ 2:00 PM ET Duration: 1 hour	December 3, 2009 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET          Noel Youhanna Principal Analyst Forrester Research Have a question? Give us a call 1-888-233-2224 or contact sales

Reduce Costs with Smart Database Optimization Strategies Webinar

Struggling with database performance issues?
You’re not alone.

Database performance issues are on the rise -- costing money and impacting operations.

We invite you to join us and featured guest Forrester Analyst Noel Yuhanna as he offers expert insights, strategies, and actions to optimize performance and reduce costs in complex infrastructures. 

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

• What are the most common factors causing performance issues, and how have they changed in recent years

• Impact of data center consolidation, virtualization, and increasingly heterogeneous DBMS environments

• How database technologies and tools have evolved, and how common optimization approaches may no longer work

• Proactive best practices for database performance monitoring , SQL tuning, and more

Don’t miss this live event!
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009
Time: 11:00 AM PT/ 2:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour

December 3, 2009
11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

 

Noel Youhanna
Principal Analyst
Forrester Research

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DBArtisan for SQL Azure provides for basic database administration

Embarcadero has announced DBArtisan for SQL Azure, a free edition of Embarcadero's database administration tool for heterogeneous DBMS environments.

DBArtisan for SQL Azure provides for basic database administration at the schema level, including object management and editors, SQL editing and schema extraction, as well as migration utilities to facilitate data migration from Microsoft SQL Server to SQL Azure. The tool enables enterprises to build symmetrical on-premise and cloud-based SQL Azure Database deployments, reducing in-house IT infrastructure costs and making certain data sets more readily available to offsite consumers.

"We are excited to have Embarcadero's DBArtisan product target Microsoft SQL Azure, the world's first true relational database service," said Microsoft Fellow Dave Campbell. "Embarcadero's DBArtisan for SQL Azure will streamline the data migration and management process for customers who wish to deploy Cloud-based solutions on SQL Azure."

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

Register Now For the "Time-Saving Features for the Busy DBA" Webinar

Discover all the new time-saving features for busy DBAs in DBArtisan® 8.7. Enhanced SQL editing, more object filtering options, faster data source management, Unicode, and more!

October 8, 2009

11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT

The new DBArtisan 8.7 offers many features for DBAs to use throughout the day to help them save time and be more efficient in common tasks, such as SQL editing and data source management. Other features like our new object filtering capabilities enable DBAs to better control their user interface and work more efficiently.

Please join this free webinar event with Scott Walz, Embarcadero’s Product Manager for DBArtisan,  and get a tour of these new  features:

• SQL editor --“on-the-fly” syntax checking of both code and object names, full object look-up throughout the SQL statement, and code complete.
• Object filtering -- three new features: simple, name-based filtering lets you hide objects based on naming, complex, user-defined object name filtering, node filtering is defined at the platform level.
• Data source management -- now pre-populate the entire contents of the explorer tree with one click. Plus, new import and export features quickly capture registered data source information for backup or migration to other machines.
• Unicode -- full Unicode character support throughout the application, allowing you to work with data in different languages and display the text correctly on screen.
• And more -- New enhancements for DB2® for z/OS, user interface and data editor improvements. 

We’ll also demonstrate some of DBArtisan’s more advanced features such as SQL debugging and profiling, performance analysis, capacity diagnostics, and storage planning.

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WEBINAR NEW Innovative, Time-Saving Features for the Busy DBA

Discover all the new time-saving features for busy DBAs in DBArtisan 8.7. Enhanced SQL editing, more object filtering options, faster data source management, Unicode, and more!

The new DBArtisan 8.7 offers many time-saving features for DBAs to use throughout the day to help them be more efficient in common tasks, such as SQL editing and data source management. Other features such as our new object filtering capabilities enable DBAs to better control their user interface and work more efficiently.

Please join this free webinar event with DBArtisan Product Manager, Scott Walz, and get a tour of these new DBArtisan features:

• SQL editor - “on-the-fly” syntax checking of both code and object names, full object look-up throughout the SQL statement, and code complete
• Object Filtering - three new features: simple, name-based filtering lets you hide objects based on naming, complex, user-defined object name filtering, node filtering is defined at the platform level.
• Data source management – now pre-populate the entire contents of the explorer tree with one click. Plus, new import and export features quickly capture registered data source information for backup or migration to other machines.
• Unicode - Full Unicode character support throughout the application, allowing you to work with data in different languages and display the text correctly on screen.
• And More - New enhancements for DB2 for z/OS, user interface and data editor improvements. 

We’ll also demonstrate some of DBArtisan’s more advanced features such as SQL debugging and profiling, performance analysis, capacity diagnostics, and storage planning.

Don’t miss this event!

October 8, 2009

11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT

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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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Server Based Licensing Webinar Invite

With the 2008 CodeGear acquisition, Embarcadero has upgraded its software licensing technology, and while this technology is new to many Embarcadero customers, it has been successfully used by millions of CodeGear customers since 2001. Recently, Embarcadero completed the transition of its products to this improved management system.

 

As a result of this transition, many of our customers have requested more information on how they will be affected by these changes.  To provide more details about the licensing technology we will be holding two one-hour live Webinars to provide an overview of the new license management system, discuss how you might be impacted, and demonstrate some of the new features and benefits available to you.  Also, during the Webinar you’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss concerns with our product experts.

During this Webinar we will:

• Explain the changes in licensing
• Explain the new license options
• Walkthrough the license registration process
• Discussion Network Named & Concurrent license features/benefits
• Demonstrate the new  license management and reporting tools
• Provide an opportunity for you to ask questions
  

Dates and times for these webinars are as follows:
Wednesday, August 19th 2:00 PM ET (11:00 AM PT)
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Wednesday, August 26th 2:00 PM ET (11:00 PM PT)
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Profile Tune and Stress Test Your SQL

We took a step back after a recent demo of DB Optimizer, a SQL profiling and tuning IDE, to soak in what amazing work the development team has done building a powerful and easy to use SQL optimization tool over the course of the last ~2 years.

The fact that you can profile and tune SQL across the Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and Sybase platforms all through a single user interface is quite compelling - and now with the latest version you can stress test your SQL code through the load editor feature. I've put together a 2 minute video that quickly moves through each of the major features:

Embarcadero DB Optimizer maximizes database and application performance by enabling DBAs and developers to quickly discover, diagnose, and optimize poor-performing SQL.

Embarcadero adds Windows 7 multi-touch to RAD tools

Great article from SD Times, by David Worthington

Database and software development tool maker Embarcadero will fully support the Windows 7 API and multi-touch technology in upcoming versions of its rapid application development (RAD) products.

Embarcadero's C++Builder, a RAD C++ development environment for Windows, along with the Delphi RAD Visual development environment for Windows software and database applications, will have interfaces to work with the APIs, said David Intersimone, the company's vice president of developer relations and chief evangelist.

Both products will have a gesture management component for Windows 7 that will abstract out its multi-touch capabilities from the Windows API to make it easier for developers to use those features in their applications, he said.

"Developers drop it down on any form in an application, and it becomes gesture-enabled. They just set properties and hook on the gesture event that takes place," Intersimone said. Developers can also create custom gestures to override predefined ones, he added.

The gesture manager also supports single touch for older touch-based systems, such as kiosk screens, and can use a standard mouse in replace of a finger. Older touch-based systems lack Windows 7's touch-screen technology and treat gestures as mouse input, he explained.

Microsoft released Windows 7 to manufacturing on July 22. Embarcadero must wait until Microsoft finalizes the Windows 7 software development kit before it can finalize its products, Intersimone said. The SDK usually ships a few weeks after Windows goes RTM, he added. He would not provide a timeframe for the products' availability.

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.

Buy One Get One Free | Database Tools & Developer Software

An Offer This Good Won't Last Forever. This One Ends August 24, 2009.

It’s simple – purchase any qualifying Embarcadero product and select another tool FREE. You can choose from over 16 of Embarcadero’s industry-leading, multi-platform database and application development tools, including DBArtisan®, ER/Studio®, Rapid SQL®, DB Optimizer®, and more.

Not sure what product you want for free? Visit the interactive promo information pageand click on the “What Can I Get For Free” link to access our easy, online tool to explore and decide.

Create your own perfect combination:

• Buy DBArtisan – get a free copy of Embarcadero® Change Manager™ to simplify database change management

• Buy ER/Studio – get a free copy of Rapid SQL to speed database prototyping and development

• Buy Rapid SQL – get a free copy of JBuilder®, the highest-rated, enterprise-class Java IDE for building Java applications

Whatever your choice may be, there has never been a better opportunity to get the tools you need to design, build, and run your systems better while minimizing the impact to your software budget.

Get More. Do More. For Less. But act quickly! Offer ends August 24, 2009.

IT's Challenge: Systemwide Optimization or Bust

Empowered with the right tools, IT can optimize application and database performance.

by Greg Nerpouni

The development of database-backed applications continues to accelerate despite shrinking IT budgets, and the distinct separation of duties between database professionals and application developers continues to blur. With DBAs becoming more focused on meeting production service level agreements (SLAs), application developers -- who are fluent in languages such as Java and C++, but admittedly not in SQL -- are being forced to pick up the slack and write their own SQL.

Read the full version by clicking the thumbnail below...

 

Embarcadero empowers software developers and database professionals with award-winning tools to design, build, optimize, and run software applications and databases across multiple platforms and programming languages. With the acquisition of CodeGear™ from Borland in 2008, Embarcadero now serves more than three million professionals worldwide with IDEs and database tools that dramatically simplify and accelerate development. Embarcadero’s tools are used in the most demanding vertical industries and by 90 of the Fortune 100 worldwide.