New Features and Enhancements

erwin DM now supports Oracle 12c R2, 18c, 19c, and 21c as target databases. For Oracle 21c, the datatype support has been updated to support JSON as a datatype.

For information on supported objects and data types, refer Oracle support summary.

Microsoft SQL Server 2019

Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 as a target database has been enhanced to implement the following objects:

External Library
External Language
External Data Source
External File Format
External Table
Statistics

For more information on supported objects, refer SQL Server support summary.

Microsoft Azure SQL Support

Microsoft Azure SQL support in erwin DM has been revamped. It is now supported on top of Microsoft SQL Server to leverage common functionality. On the New Model and Target Database dialog boxes, you can find Azure under SQL Server Version drop-down list.

For information on supported objects, refer Azure SQL support summary.

Microsoft Azure Synapse Support

erwin Data Modeler now supports Microsoft Azure Synapse as a target database.

For information on supported objects and data types, refer Azure Synapse support summary.

MySQL

erwin DM now supports MySQL 8.x as a target database.

For information on supported objects and data types, refer MySQL support summary.

Data Vault 2.0 Support

erwin DM now supports Data Vault 2.0 across all applicable target databases.

erwin Mart Administrator UI Facelift

erwin Mart Administrator now comes with a brand new UI that follows Google’s Material Design principles. The redesigned UI offers an improved user experience with its modern look and feel, dark and light modes, and graphical buttons and icons.

Apart from the overall facelift, the wiki-like editable Home page lets you add information, such as key text, process diagrams, important hyperlinks, resources, and much more. Also, the configurable Dashboard let’s you add and view a pictorial presentation of your data and actions on the Mart. You can add charts for your data footprint, model overview and history, profile data, and session overview.

For more information, refer to the erwin Mart Online Help.

Productivity and UI Enhancements

Several additions and enhancements have been implemented to improve erwin DM's productivity and usage experience. These enhancements are:

Normalization and De-Normalization capability that facilitates creating relationships and model conversion from Relational to NoSQL and vice versa
Improved Reverse Engineering wizard
Improved Forward engineering wizard
Improved speed load mode
Scheduler service can now be run by Non-Admin as local service
Welcome page with key shortcuts and links that help new erwin DM users
Object Browser
Property Pane and Objects Count Pane
API support of Complete Compare and Reporting
Dark mode availability in other panes of the application

Database Connectivity

erwin DM now facilitates connection to the following databases without using a client software:

Relational Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, MySQL, MariaDB, SAP ASE, and Snowflake
NoSQL Databases: Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB

For more information, refer Database Connection Parameters.

32-bit Application Discontinuation

Starting erwin DM 2021 R1 release, erwin will no longer support or produce 32-bit erwin DM binaries. For any concerns regarding the migration from 32-bit to 64-bit systems, reach out to the Support team.

Third Party Tools

The supported Apache Tomcat version has been upgraded from v9.0.35 to v9.0.45.

DM Connect for DI Support

DM Connect for DI works with erwin Data Intelligence Suite (DI Suite) v10.1, v10.2, and v11.0.