ER/Studio’s new security management features can manage users, permissions, and roles within a logical or physical model and give us the ability to go beyond planning the usual database structures, including model and design security. The challenges were that Idea's Needed an effective, repeatable delivery of high-quality software solutions. Effectively manage data with a range of business objectives in mind Sophisticated data warehouse solutions require extensive modeling, including data lineage. The results were enhanced visibility into customers’ existing assets. Effective communication of models across the enterprise. Enhanced data integration and accuracy by tracing.

1. Success Story
“Er/Studio’s new security management features can
ER/Studio
manage users, permissions, and roles within a logical
or physical model and give us the ability to go
OrganizatiOn
Idea Integration
beyond planning the usual database structures,
”
including model and design security.
– Joe Salvatore, idea integration
appliCatiOn
Enterprise Data Management Idea Integration is a professional IT consulting give them the ability to discover, document,
and systems integration firm specializing and reuse data assets. ER/Studio also provided
tOOlS in application development, digital data the availability to track data lineage in addition
management, business intelligence, to security management and capacity planning
ER/Studo®
infrastructure, and security, and interactive functionality. This multi-platform solution
marketing. With experience spanning two provides a complete environment for analyzing,
ChallEngES
decades and locations across the U.S., Idea designing, creating, and managing data assets
• Needs effective, repeatable Integration delivers targeted, powerful solutions over the long term, allowing them to be used
delivery of high-quality to meet clients’ business challenges. Idea and repurposed for new applications.
software solutions Integration has the breadth of clients and
experience to deliver and implement large-scale BEnEfitS
• Effectively manage data
applications and solutions as a strong mid-
with a range of business
market company. Idea Integration also possesses Enhanced Visibility into Customers’
objectives in mind
the backing of the professional resources and Existing Data assets
• Sophisticated data collective commitment of the MPS Group,
warehouse solutions As data volumes grow and environments
a Fortune 1000 billion-dollar services firm.
become more complex, Idea Integration’s clients
require extensive modeling,
are finding it increasingly difficult to leverage
including data lineage ChallEngE
their data to address the needs of their business.
To successfully deliver results, Idea Integration ER/Studio provides an easy-to-use visual
rESultS
needs to properly understand a client’s medium to document, understand, and publish
• Enhanced visibility into existing database requirements is paramount information about data assets so that they can
customers’ existing assets to delivering successful results. The common be harnessed to support these objectives. Idea
denominator with all clients projects, regardless
• Effective communication of uses the powerful reverse-engineering, compare/
of the application, is the underlying data and merge and forward-engineering capabilities to
models across the enterprise
the need to effectively manage it with a range of deliver well-documented and well-understood
• Enhanced data integration business objectives in mind-revenue generation, databases. Using industry standard notations,
and accuracy by tracing of cost reduction, increased operational efficiency, data modelers can create an information hub
data origins etc. For Idea Integration, the effective and by importing, analyzing, and repurposing
repeatable delivery of high-quality software metadata from data sources such as business
solutions requires effortless data modeling intelligence applications, ETL environments,
and physical database generation. And Idea XML documents, and other modeling solutions.
Integration’s development of sophisticated data Accurately representing many similar data
warehouse solutions requires extensive modeling structures with ease, ER/Studio’s highly-
that includes data lineage documentation. readable visual format enhances communication
across job functions, from business analysts
SOlutiOn to application developers, helping to share
information on standards/definitions and
To address their existing database requirements
promoting consistency and reuse.
for clients, Idea Integration selected ER/Studio,
Embarcadero’s unique model-driven data
architecture and database design solution to

2. An ER/Studio Success Story
Effective Communication of Models
“the availability of data lineage tracking and
across the Enterprise
documentation is vastly superior to all the other
ER/Studio brings clarity to models and
to complex business rule enforcement.
”
solutions we reviewed.
The multilevel design layers allow for
the accurate visualization of data, which
promotes communication between – Joe Salvatore, idea integration
business and technical users. Streamlined
navigational aids, diagram layout utilities,
and powerful report publishing functions
Security Management
practices. By enforcing standards, and
simplify the communication of designs
being able to analyze and document
within and beyond the data modeling “ER/Studio’s new security management
data elements, corporations can better
group. The HTML and Word documentation features can manage users, permissions, and
understand and utilize their data, reduce
produced was leveraged to provide Idea’s roles within a logical or physical model and
redundancy, and build consistency.
clients with professional documentation. give us the ability to go beyond planning the
Ultimately this builds quality into designs,
Furthermore, the ability to use ER/Studio’s usual database structures, including model
the databases generated, and the
automation macros helped to produce and design security,” said Joe Salvatore.
applications that run on these databases,
standardized models by enforcing these
as it automatically enforces sound database
standards through application event triggers.
COnCluSiOn
design principles.
ER/Studio makes it easier to understand
and communicate the current state of By using ER/Studio, Idea Integration is able
Enhanced Data integration and
data throughout the enterprise, maintains to better support the data management
accuracy by tracing of Data Origins
corporate standards, and encourages needs of its clients with increased visibility,
appropriate data usage. Bringing all consistency, and integration that address
Idea Integration cites ER/Studio’s Data
metadata into a central repository helps the their database requirements via data lineage
Lineage and Data Movement Rules utilities
transfer of knowledge among stakeholders, tracking and documentation with additional
as extremely valuable in helping them
and allows users to easily see relationships security management and capacity planning
understand the many complex source-to-
and business rules that relate to their data. functionality. This solution provided a
target mappings among decision-support
complete environment for helping build
systems, ERP databases and transaction
quality database design and clarifying
improved Data Consistency for processing databases. With a clear
complex data design problems through
higher Quality applications understanding of where data originated
visually clear ‘blueprints,’ for analyzing,
and where it is used, their customers can
Idea Integration relies on accurate creating, and maintaining database
be assured that they know what their
and relevant data in order to build the applications. Idea Integration named
data actually means and how it can best
applications that its clients need to drive security management and capacity planning
be leveraged. ER/Studio’s data lineage
their business’ forward. Knowledge workers functionality as clear differentiators for
functionality provides data professionals
can spend significant amounts of time ER/Studio. Additional benefits were realized
with the ability to document how data flows
looking through data sources, researching while using the capacity planning features
through the organization. Attachments
what information means, and find that that can forecast storage requirements of
also allow organizations to append specific
it is not being used appropriately, with newly implemented or existing database
information to their models to enhance
multiple versions and inconsistency come systems. These capabilities greatly enhanced
documentation. “The availability of data
inefficiencies in time and other valuable Idea Integration’s ability to better plan what
lineage tracking and documentation is
resources. ER/Studio helps data architects resources were required for their solutions.
vastly superior to all the other solutions we
define and reuse common data elements
reviewed,” said Joe Salvatore, business
and modeling components across projects
intelligence technical lead for Idea
to establish standards in their modeling
Integration.
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