ER/Studio Business Architect allows companies to document and understand their present day business processes, making it easy to examine, analyze, and recommend changes.
Process & Conceptual Modeling | Business Architect
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ER/Studio Business Architect ®
Real-world Process and Conceptual Modeling
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Embarcadero® ER/Studio® Business Architect is a tool for Related Products
creating a graphical representation of your business from the
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that detail how your business operates. ER/Studio Business
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ARCHITECT ARCHITECT and database design solution.
Architect allows you to easily model your business processes
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Architect conceptual modeling provides an intuitive way to management system
REPOSITORY PORTAL
outline subject areas and concepts that can then drive the ER/Studio Portal
creation of detailed data models. A browser-based solution
Search, report, and allowing organizations to
publish process models share, browse, and report on
• Business process modeling based from Business Architect
information contained in the
directly to the Portal
on the BPMN standard ER/Studio Repository
• Conceptual modeling for top-down ER/Studio®
database design Software Architect
Object-oriented modeling tool
• Align technology with business goals to visually analyze, design and
• Compliance with government implement complex application
and data structures.
regulations
ER/Studio Viewer
BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING View, navigate and print
BASED ON THE BPMN STANDARD ER/Studio models in a view-only
environment
With ER/Studio Business Architect, companies can easily ER/Studio MetaWizard
document and understand their present day business Integrate metadata across
processes, making it easy to examine, analyze, and modeling tools, business
recommend changes. After analysis, companies can then intelligence, ETL platforms and
industry-standard exchange
use ER/Studio Business Architect to design and codify changes to processes, and Store ER/Studio Business
Architect models in the ER/Studio formats (XMI, XML and XSD)
even manage and communicate interim processes used to affect those changes. Repository for collaborative
modeling, version management ER/Studio
and security benefits. Universal Data Models
CONCEPTUAL MODELING FOR TOP-DOWN DATABASE DESIGN
Standard and industry data
model templates for ER/Studio
Using the conceptual modeling capabilities in ER/Studio Business Architect, it is easy to create a high-
that reduce development time
level visual representation of your business. This easily-understood model will help you get buy-in and and facilitate standardization
clarification on requirements as you begin your top-down database or business process design.
Embarcadero®
ALIGN TECHNOLOGY WITH BUSINESS GOALS Schema Examiner
Automate error-checking and
corrections for database
By modeling the relationships between business processes and their underlying data, companies are better
schema to quickly and easily
able to take advantage of their technology. ER/Studio Business Architect makes it possible to do things improve data quality and
such as identify all business processes that modify customer data, or determine which business users will system performance
lose productivity when a system outage occurs.
Embarcadero® All-Access™
Instant access to the languages,
COMPLIANCE WITH GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS tools, and technologies to design,
build, and run your software
Tying together an understanding of business processes, what sensitive data elements they interact with, applications and database
and what individuals are involved is a key element in reaching compliance with government regulations systems.
such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, or Basel II. With ER/Studio Business Architect, both business and technical
users can work together to assure the business meets appropriate government regulations.