Watch the companion webinar at: http://forms.embarcadero.com/AgileAutomatedAware
Data management teams face some tough challenges these days. Organizations need business-driven visibility that enables understanding and awareness of enterprise data assets – without worrying about definitions and change management. But with information architectures evolving, serving up accurately defined, reusable data can become a complex issue.
In this episode of The Briefing Room hosted by the Bloor Group, veteran analyst David Loshin explains the importance of agile, automated workflows in today’s enterprise data architectures. Ron Huizenga of Embarcadero discusses how the ER/Studio suite approaches data modeling and management from a modern architecture standpoint. He explains that unifying the way information is represented can not only eliminate the need for costly workarounds, but also foster collaboration between data architects, developers and business users.
Learn more about data modeling and data architecture with ER/Studio at http://www.embarcadero.com/products/er-studio.
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ER/Studio: Agile Change Management
• Enable “Agile Data Modeler”
• Change Management Center
– User stories /tasks
• Granular repository check-out & check-in
– Individual objects or sets of objects
– Full models/sub-models if desired
• Change records at check in (or check out)
– Can be associated to user stories, tasks
• Still fully supports named releases, branch &
merge as well
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Is the team responsible for data
models included in your agile process?
Data team’s inclusion in agile process incomplete
Yes,
completely
34%
Somewhat
58%
No
8%
Does your organization follow an
agile development methodology?
Yes, fully
16%
Yes,
somewhat
57%
No
27%
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ER/Studio: Apply Naming Standards
• Can invoke with other wizards
– General Physical Model
– Compare & Merge
– XML Schema Generation
– Model Validation
• Can apply to model or sub-model at any
time
• Either Direction
• Selective review/apply
• Enabled by loose model coupling
• Name lockdown (freeze names)
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• Powerful enterprise glossary, model & metadata collaboration
• Integrate key business terms and definitions with business systems
• View, store, and manage a single source of business definitions
• Attach business policies to daily workflows with contextual alerts and tips
ER/Studio: Business Collaboration
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Concluding Remarks
• ER/Studio provides automation, awareness and
collaboration
– Agile change management
– Documents “why” and “what” for the changes
– Sharing of models and metadata
– Awareness and business meaning through glossaries
• Agile is becoming mainstream
– 73% of companies use agile to some degree
– Only 16% have fully embraced it
• Crucial stakeholders aren’t fully involved
– Of companies using Agile, only 34% fully involve data modelers
– 58% involve them somewhat
– 8% exclude them entirely
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