erwin Data Modeler
Say goodbye to data chaos. Simplify data modeling and unlock clear insights instantly with the undisputed market leader in data modeling tools. For over 30 years, erwin® Data Modeler by Quest® has been the gold standard in graphical data modeling, empowering leading organizations worldwide to eliminate complexity and achieve clarity in their data landscapes. As an award-winning solution, it enables businesses to effortlessly find, visualize, design and standardize high-quality enterprise data assets. Trusted by thousands, erwin Data Modeler helps reduce costs and accelerates time to value, ensuring your business has the reliable data sources it needs to thrive every day.
Mastering data modeling: Simplifying today’s complex data challenges
In our data-driven world, effective management is essential for any organization looking to maximize the value of its data assets. erwin Data Modeler leads the way, offering robust solutions that tackle the critical challenges organizations face today in four key areas:
1. Data governance and compliance
erwin Data Modeler lays the groundwork for building strong data governance frameworks that ensure data quality, consistency, and regulatory compliance. The erwin data modeling tool equips organizations with the tools to seamlessly integrate data from various sources while standardizing definitions and formats. This solution reduces risk, guarantees compliance and fosters consistent data usage across the organization, breaking down data silos and enhancing data accessibility and interoperability.
- Data literacy, collaboration and accountability
- Enterprise Glossary
- Git integration and version control
- Standardization across entire data landscape
2. Migration and modernization
erwin Data Modeler ensures accurate data mapping, transformation and integration across both legacy systems and new platforms, supporting a wide range of databases and cloud environments. By providing a comprehensive view of data architecture, it helps identify dependencies and optimize migration processes. This approach reduces the risk of data loss, minimizes downtime, and maintains data integrity throughout transitions, leading to more efficient and successful modernization projects. Consequently, businesses can confidently and agilely adopt new technologies and infrastructures.
- Data source integrations and support
- Simplified de-normalization/normalization across data sources
- Reverse engineering capabilities
3. Improved data visibility and understanding
erwin Data Modeler empowers users to create detailed data models that visually
clarify data structures and relationships. This solution enhances understanding and communication among stakeholders, leading to more informed decision-making and improved collaboration across the organization.
- Intuitive and customizable user interface
- erwin ER360 visualization and collaboration portal
- Quick, efficient complete compare
- erwin Mart on Cloud SaaS offering
4. Efficient database design and optimization
erwin Data Modeler optimizes database performance across your organization by enabling efficient design, development and validation through advanced data modeling tools. This solution reduces development time and costs, ensures scalability and creates database architectures that are easier to maintain, ultimately driving better performance and long-term efficiency.
- Enhanced NoSQL denormalization automation
- Standardized data architecture
- Bulk editing of large data model components
What the erwin data modeling tool can do for you
erwin data models reduce complexity, making it easier to design, deploy and understand data sources to meet business needs. erwin Data Modeler also automates and standardizes model design tasks, including complex queries, to improve business alignment, ensure data integrity and simplify integration. With erwin Data Modeler, users experience these benefits:
Visualization of any data from anywhere
See structured or unstructured enterprise data regardless of location – in a relational or NoSQL database, a data warehouse, whether on-premises or in the cloud – within a single interface.
Automated data model & database schema generation
Automatically generate data models and database designs to increase efficiency
and reduce errors.
Centralized model development & management
An integrated view of conceptual, logical and physical data models helps
business and technical stakeholders understand data structures and meaning.
Data literacy, collaboration & accountability
Improve data intelligence and decision-making across the enterprise by
maximizing the ability of stakeholders to use, understand and trust relevant
data.
Agile application development
Consolidate and build applications with hybrid architectures, including traditional, NoSQL and Big Data, in the cloud and on-premises.
Increased data quality
By using data models to define and deploy enterprise data standards,
you’ll realize more consistency and higher quality in data management.
Reduced risks & costs
Automation and standardization of data definitions and structures reduces risks
and costs, plus you can test changes and new applications before they go into
production.
Successful cloud adoption
Automated schema engineering and deployment accelerates and ensures successful
adoption of cloud platforms, like Snowflake and Microsoft Azure, including auto documenting
existing schema into reusable models.
Seamless integration across data sources with erwin Data Modeler
Simplify unlocking the full potential of your data with erwin Data Modeler’s robust integration capabilities. Our data modeling tool effortlessly connects with a wide variety of data sources, including relational, NoSQL, cloud and big data environments. Whether you’re working with traditional databases, modern data lakes or diverse cloud solutions, erwin Data Modeler ensures consistent and accurate data modeling across all your systems. Streamline your data management processes, enhance data quality and drive smarter decision-making with our comprehensive support for multiple data sources. Transform complexity into clarity and achieve a unified view of your data landscape with ease.
erwin Data Modeler versions
erwin Data Modeler provides logical and physical modeling and schema engineering for relational, NoSQL and Big Data databases, data warehouses and data lakes. erwin Data Modeler is available in several versions with additional options to help customers improve the quality and agility of their data capabilities:
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Standard Edition
Includes reusable standards such as model templates, domains, automation
macros, naming and datatype standards, and the widest range of model
integration and interoperability bridges.
Why data modeling is better with erwin
erwin Data Modeler has been the most trusted name in data modeling for more than 30 years. The world’s top financial services, healthcare, critical infrastructure and technology companies, including those on the Fortune 500, use the erwin data modeling tool. In today’s data-driven enterprise, its benefits have expanded to a wide range of architects, business analysts and data administrators to support their strategic initiatives. These are some of erwin Data Modeler’s unique advantages:
Modern, customizable modeling environment
Automate complex and time-consuming tasks for more effective database design,
standardization, deployment and maintenance across all your database platforms. Visualize complex business and
technical data structures, automatically generating data models in a single,
intuitive interface.
Breadth of DBMS integrations & metadata bridges
Translate the technical format of the major cloud and on-premises database
platforms into highly graphical models rich in metadata, thanks to built-in
interfaces. erwin Data Modeler also provides out-of-the-box bridges for metadata exchange
and transformation from other modeling environments, data management platforms
and metadata exchange formats.
Model & database comparisons
The Complete Compare facility, with Quick Compare templates, automates
bidirectional synchronization of models, scripts and databases; compares one
item with another; displays any differences and permits selective updates,
generating ALTER scripts when necessary.
Roundtrip engineering
Forward- and reverse-engineering of database code and model exchange ensures
efficiency,
effectiveness and consistency in designing, standardizing, deploying and
documenting data structures for comprehensive enterprise database management.
Data catalog & business glossary integration
erwin Data Modeler is an essential source of, and one of the best ways to view, metadata.
It’s a critical enabler of data governance and intelligence, so metadata
from erwin data models can be harvested automatically and then ingested into
our data catalog and business glossary.
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erwin Data Modeler is a proven technology for improving the quality and agility of an organization’s overall data capability – and that includes data governance and data intelligence.
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