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What is ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition?

ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition is a business-driven data architecture solution that combines multi-platform data modeling, business process modeling, and enterprise metadata for organizations of all sizes. Its features include:

  • Round-trip data modeling capabilities

  • Process and conceptual modeling

  • A secure model and metadata repository

  • A collaboration hub for business glossaries

  • A change management center

  • A range of import and export options

The benefits of using ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition include:

  • Faster and easier data modeling: ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition provides a collaborative environment for data professionals to design and maintain enterprise data models for databases and data warehouses.

  • Increased understanding and context: The solution facilitates better understanding and context for enterprise data through team collaboration on an enterprise glossary of business definitions.

  • Multiple-platform data modeling: ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition supports multi-platform data modeling, design, and reporting, making it suitable for diverse database environments.

  • Cross-organizational team collaboration: The tool enables collaboration across teams, improving the value of enterprise data by allowing employees across the organization to use and improve metadata.

  • Business process modeling: ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition includes ER/Studio Business Architect, which allows for process and conceptual modeling, further enhancing the understanding of enterprise data.

  • Supports collaboration on business glossaries to establish consistent terms and definitions used with models and metadata, as a foundation for data governance.

  • Allows data architects to support a data governance program.

ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition is used by various professionals involved in data management, database design, and business process modeling. This includes data architects, database administrators, data modelers, business analysts, and application developers. The tool is suitable for organizations of all sizes, as it combines multiple-platform data modeling, business process modeling, and enterprise metadata.

The top capabilities of ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition are:

  • Extends the knowledge created by data architects to a broader range of stakeholders such as developers, data stewards, data analysts and any data savvy member of staff.

  • Allows stakeholders to browse for data through multiple routes

  • Enables collaboration around data among teams across business units and functions.

  • Supports corporate compliance initiatives by driving responsible use of sensitive and private data.

  • Integrates the business definitions of the glossary with internal web assets to provide on-the-fly business context with tool-tips and pop-ups.

  • Create a single registry of all available data sources.

  • Adheres to industry regulations and business standards regarding security and privacy, by alerting users who view and modify sensitive data within the tools.

  • Speeds application development by using business terms to more easily locate data elements.

  • Monitors access to and use of business glossaries and associated functions to understand immediate data management requirements.

  • Integrates with data governance tools such as Collibra to ensure a unified data ecosystem.

The top use cases of ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition are:

  • Access, search, edit and manage enterprise metadata.

  • Browse the business glossary for information and then understand which data assets contains that information

  • Browse the enterprise data model for standard entities and then understand which data assets implement that data

  • Browse a categorized data catalog of data assets using logical business names

  • Manage additional metadata, such as glossaries and terms and data sources.

  • Keep track of metadata and discuss its evolution with other users.

  • Create reports from data and searches, and export them to different file formats.

  • Search for all kinds of data such as data definitions and entity-relationship objects in any model of the repository database, including data model and business process diagrams.

  • Find entity-relationship objects and other resources, as well as their reuse and impact analysis.

  • Browse all the contents of the repository database, such as models and dictionaries, in a structured way.

  • Using a web browser, access ER/Studio Team Server internally via a corporate intranet and externally via the internet.

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Screenshot of Logical models with ER/Studio Enterprise Team Server