Embarcadero Technologies has released an update to its flagship model-driven data management solution, ER/Studio. The new version leverages data models as the common language in order to help disparate teams to work together more easily and more quickly, and adds a new interface.

ER/Studio 6.0 is a software application deigned for data architects and developers who need a multi-level data modelling application for building a new database application or maintaining an existing one. The software essentially allows you to document, communicate and implement the business requirements of your company’s applications by providing blueprints of databases.

At the collaboration-server level, ER/Studio 6.0’s improved team-based modelling capabilities, combined with a new change control interface, should provide better control over security and the model design and review process. At the modelling-client level, design teams should benefit from the new advanced model data comparison and merge utility. Embarcadero Technologies also claims that enterprise data administrators and developers can increase productivity by simplifying access to deployed modelling solutions and incorporating more database platforms.

ER/Studio 6.0 and its collaboration server, Repository 2.5, offer tools to help reduce the complexity of large data-model management within teams of designers. Key new benefits include an advanced model data comparison and merge utility to allow design teams to work independently yet concurrently, DBMS support of MySQL and NCR TeraData, a consolidated and upgraded reporting engine, and an updated interface to integrate with Windows XP and .NET 2003. Used with ER/Studio Repository 2.5, ER/Studio 6.0 further offers team-based modelling collaboration.

Links:
ER/Studio 6.0 Web site
Repository 2.5 Web site

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