According to a new press release, “erwin, the data governance company, today released a new version of erwin Data Modeler (erwin DM), the world’s No. 1 data modeling software for designing, deploying and understanding data sources to meet modern business needs. This is the first in a series of new products the company will announce in Q1 to demonstrate innovation across its enterprise modeling and data governance and intelligence software suites. erwin DM is an award-winning data modeling tool used to find, visualize, design, deploy and standardize high-quality enterprise data assets.”

The release continues, “Discover and document any data from anywhere for consistency, clarity and artifact reuse across large-scale data integration, master data management, metadata management, Big Data, business intelligence and analytics initiatives – all while supporting data governance and intelligence efforts with: (1) Metadata and schema visualization to mitigate complexity and increase collaboration and literacy across a broad range of data stakeholders. (2) Integrated business and semantic metadata authoring to augment physical asset metadata in the data catalog and accelerate data stewardship effort. (3) Design task automation and standardization to improve business alignment, ensure data integrity and simplify integration.”

Adam Famularo, CEO of erwin, commented, “Today’s data modeling is not your father’s data modeling… While it’s always been the best way to understand complex data sources and automate design standards and integrity rules, the role of data modeling continues to expand as the fulcrum of collaboration between data generators, stewards and consumers. That’s because it’s the best way to visualize metadata, and metadata is now the heart of enterprise data management, as well as data governance and intelligence efforts.”

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