See the companion webinar on demand at: http://forms.embarcadero.com/ERStudioNewRelease
Embarcadero is committed to enabling our users to adapt to emerging technology platforms and challenges, as well as delivering enhanced capabilities to collaborate with other stakeholders. The new release of ER/Studio will include new capabilities targeted to today’s complex enterprise data architectures and demanding workflows, allowing you to:
+ Increase visibility and productivity with Agile change management
+ Add consistency to your data with Team Server glossary enhancements
+ Identify data source impacts resulting from model changes
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Keeping pace with the rapid growth of data, change and compliance
Evolving Database
Ecosystems
Volume, Velocity,
Variety
Agile Development
Cycles
Maximizing IT
Infrastructure
ComplianceLimited
Resources
Data-Driven Organizations Need the Right Tools
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Business-Driven Data Architecture
• Improve visibility and collaboration with ER/Studio
• Enable more efficient and automated data modeling
• Share models and metadata across the organization
• Establish business glossaries with consistent terms
and definitions
• Build a solid foundation for compliance, data
governance, and master data management
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Introducing ER/Studio XE7
• Innovation
– Agile Change Management
Tasks and UI
• Team Server Enhancements
– Glossary Hierarchies with
Inheritance
– Improved Advanced Search
– Detailed Audit Trail for
Glossaries and Terms
– Improved CSV Import
• Increased ER/Studio
Platform Interoperability
– Glossary Integration to Data
Architect
– Data Source Mapping and
Impact Analysis
• Usability improvements
– Data Architect Welcome Page
– Automated Naming Standards
– Multi-version Licenses
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ER/Studio XE7 Features
New ER/Studio XE7 Features
Data
Architect
Data
Arch Pro
Enterprise
Team
Agile change
management
Agile change management, including tasks and version
history, enables modelers to keep data models relevant
with fast-changing databases and applications
Automated
naming standards
Automated application of naming standards between
logical and physical models
Usability
improvements
New ‘Start Here’ welcome page with dynamic content
(such as how-to videos) improves the user experience and
shortens learning ramp-up time
Data source
mapping
Identify and analyze data source impacts resulting from
model changes
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ER/Studio XE7 Features, cont.
New ER/Studio XE7 Features
Data
Architect
Data
Arch Pro
Enterprise
Team
Glossary
enhancements
• Changes to glossaries and terms can be tracked with
detailed audit trail histories
• Glossary hierarchies with inheritance allow creation of
child glossaries that can inherit a subset of terms from
one or more glossaries, to create tiered structures that
correlate to organizational configurations
• Integration with the ER/Studio Data Architect data
dictionary allows modelers to see glossary terms and
definitions in real-time for consistency
• Ability to make mass updates to a subset of glossaries
and terms (instead of all at once or one at a time) using
CSV modifications
Advanced
Search updates
Enhanced browse and search capabilities are now available
for glossaries, terms, data sources, and data objects
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Multi-Version Licenses
• Users will no longer need to obtain version-specific
licenses
• These XE7 license credentials can be used to register
both this version and upcoming versions
– Licenses must have a current maintenance contract in
order to enable this licensing feature
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Agile Change Management
• Enable “Agile Data Modeler”
– Incremental rather than waterfall
• Need more granularity than named
versions of a model or submodel
• Change numbers assigned at Repository check-in
(or check-out)
– Can be associated to user stories, tasks
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Glossary Inheritance
• Similar to ER/Studio submodels
• Child glossaries inherit a subset
of parent terms
• May have one or more
parent glossaries
• No limit to hierarchy level
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Glossary Integration
• Associate ER/Studio Data Architect objects to Team
Server glossary terms
– Model, submodel
– Entity, Table
– Attribute, Column
– Domain
– View
• Push terms to glossary
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Advanced Search
• Available in Team Server / Enterprise Team Edition
• Improved search criteria for data objects, data sources, glossaries,
and terms
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