CA Technologies, an IT management software and solutions company, asserted that its newly unveiled CA Erwin Data Modeler r8 is for collaboratively visualizing and managing data across the enterprise.
The company claimed that with CA ERwin r8's powerful visualization features, users will find state-of-the-art diagramming that rival any drawing tool on the market today, while continuing to provide them data modeling functionality to manage their enterprise data management initiatives. Users can easily represent data that is managed in multiple systems, applications, platforms and locations and manage transformation of data to the cloud and other forms of IT infrastructure.
Officials with the company explained that as business-critical applications are increasingly dispersed across virtualized computing environments, it is more important than ever to generate maximum value from corporate data. CA ERwin Data Modeler r8 provides the capabilities to help enterprises and service providers meet this challenge as we pass through the next radical transformation of IT infrastructure.
CA ERwin understands the needs of the data management professional and blends powerful drawing, navigation and layout tools with enterprise-class data management functionality to ensure users enjoy the flexibility of a drawing tool with the power of a best of breed data modeling solution.
It is more suited for enterprises that are looking for: true data model governance; flexible reporting and publication; repository-based collaboration; integration and open architecture; extensive user community and ecosystem and more.
"As organizations make business-critical decisions regarding management of data assets, CA ERwin Data Modeler creates a visual blueprint of their data structures, greatly simplifying the decision of which data to move to a cloud environment, and which data to manage on-premise," said Shawn Rogers, vice president of research at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).
CA ERwin Data Modeler r8 includes extended support for IBM DB2 for z/OS and LUW v9.x to ease use of partitioning, global temporary tables, compression, nicknames, column "labels," XML data types, and query optimization syntax.