We are able to divide the information into subject areas, and we can divide the data landscape into smaller chunks, which makes it easier to understand. Another valuable feature is being able to rearrange the model so that we can display it to users.
The data comes to life to where they understand exactly what they're asking for." "Being able to point it to a database and then pull the metadata is a valuable feature. They'll give you words on a paper, but once they can actually view it as a picture, it really comes to life. Identifying relationships, non-identifying relationships, and being visually right there to understand the differences are great features.Įrwin is key to being able to visually understand whatever the customer is requesting.
So, there is less effort from development side to create tables or build a database." "It's a safeguard for me because I'm always concerned that somebody is free handing it and will forget a key coming from the parent. They will just be running the script on the database and looking into other requirements, such as the index. Once we generate the DDLs out of the erwin tools, the development team does a quick review of the script line by line.
We have been using this solution for so long and all the code which has been generated is accurate with the requirements. But it's just got gobs and gobs of stuff that you can implement if you so choose to." "The solution’s code generation ensures accurate engineering of data sources, as there is no development time. It seems to be pretty common that not all the functionality is fully utilized. There's a whole boatload of functionality in this thing and we use maybe 10% of it. There are some notes, naming standards, and other functions that we use as well. When taking on a new project, it can save you about a half a day on a big project across an entire team." "The modeling portion of the tool is the most valuable. I can easily make changes to what was uploaded to the Bulk Editor. Then, I can easily see which entities and attributes are not inline or standard. When it sees something is nonstandard or inaccurate, it will export the better data out. As far as other automations, a feature of the Bulk Editor is mass updates. We have chosen to go for a cloud-based database, and it supports that, which is very useful." "We use the macros with naming standards patterns, domains, datatypes, and some common attributes. "It supports a wide variety of databases, including the latest ones.