Supercharge Your BI/Data Analytics Investment with erwin Data Modeler

ENTERPRISE DATA DASHBOARDS

As more organizations adopt a data-driven business approach, they look for new ways to innovate, capturing relevant data streams and turning them

into actionable information. Successful analytics and business intelligence (BI) must involve mastering your enterprise data assets for a “data-first”

approach that extends from business strategy to operations.

Obtaining valuable insights quickly from large, diverse data sets is a driving force behind data analytics. Business analysts are challenged not only in

accessing enterprise data but also in determining the meaning, characteristics and inter-relationships of the raw data stored in complex and disparate

database formats and technologies. The discovery and analysis of enterprise data sources is a costly and time-consuming process that often slows

down the delivery of transformational analytics and calls into question the credibility of the results.

BI/Data Analytics tools specialize in visual analytics, helping organizations analyze, visualize and share information. The solution makes it easy to

combine different data sources, slice and dice that data, and deliver the requested KPIs in intuitive and compelling dashboards. However, the results

displayed by your dashboard are only as good as the data that feeds it, which raises some important questions:

• How do you know the data is correct and complete?

• How do you know what your data represents and includes, e.g., business definitions and rules?

• How do you know where the data comes from?

• How do you know what data is connected?

• What does the data indicate, and are you sure you’re asking the right questions of it?

Most BI/Data Analytics tools will connect you to any data source, but will not help you understand the business meaning or context, related elements

and points of integration key to ensuring the information in the dashboard is accurate, relevant and complete. They will not show you the analysis

paths that provide deeper understanding and additional use cases. In short, these tools do not help you identify and understand your data landscape.

You need to see the data threads that tie point A to point B, etc. erwin data models provide a roadmap to guide you on the journey of analysis.

IF BI/DATA ANALYTICS TOOLS ARE THE DASHBOARD, ERWIN DATA MODELER IS THE ROADMAP

Study after study indicates that data management professionals and marketers are reaping the benefits of using big data and data modeling. One poll

states that 58% of data management professionals report keeping high-quality customer data increases efficiency, and the majority agree that

modeling helps them make better, more informed decisions.

With erwin Data Modeler, you can create visual data models that encapsulate business and technical descriptions of your enterprise data assets. An

erwin data model depicts the structure and “meaning” of data with all the inter-relationships and attributes. Organizations that have been limited in

taking their analytics further will be able to make deeper connections and extract more impactful insights with data modeling. BI/Data Analytics users

who previously received a very narrow view of pre-configured data, which inevitably raised more questions than the data they had access to could

answer, can use erwin data models to query the data landscape on demand.

Data modeling also allows business users to use the terms they use in their daily jobs. Business analysts can automatically generate data extractions

and transformations without the need for a programmer or a programming environment, providing an unprecedented level of self-sufficiency while

reducing costs and time to value.

Because the data model has been created with multiple perspectives, that model can be queried endlessly. Analysts can ask the model where data

came from and what it means. Bringing the data together from various sources, combining it in a database using a customized domain model, and then

conducting analytics on that combined data set creates a huge benefit and freedom to analysts – and the organization.

It all starts with the data and what you want to do with it, which drives strategies, decisions and everything in between. The goal is getting people from

raw data to the most impactful decisions as quickly as possible.

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ERWIN DATA MODELER – TAKING THE GUESSWORK OUT OF ANALYTICS AND BI

erwin Data Modeler enables you to discover, document, visualize and design high-quality data assets using an intuitive, graphical interface. By using a data model as a roadmap for your data infrastructure, you’ll have a centralized view of all your data sources, based on a common repository of data assets.

Visualize Complex Data Structures: Automatically generate data models, providing a standards-based vehicle to document and visualize any data from anywhere through a single graphical interface to promote consistency and understanding.

Quality Data Through Rigorous Design: Create high-quality reporting and analytics databases directly from visual models, increasing efficiency and reducing errors.

Standardize Data Definition and Data Model Creation: Help increase quality and efficiency with consistent, reusable standards support, including model templates, annotations, definitions, domains, automation macros, naming standards and model visualization themes.

Document the Flow of Data Through Your Business: Capture the lineage of your data with data source and data movements rules to promote trust in data and enable impact analysis.

Publish Your Data Models Across Business Silos: Publish your models and related metadata to both business and technical stakeholders for visualization, collaborative governance and better understanding of your enterprise data assets.

Share Your Data Models with Your BI/Data Analytics Applications: Import and export erwin data models to and from a wide variety of data management solutions and standards.

With erwin Data Modeler, you’ll have consistent and accurate business definitions and a structure that enforces critical business rules. You can trace the lineage of the data being used by your BI/Data Analytics applications. You will understand how data elements are related when building analytics and queries. You will be able to break down silos between IT and business stakeholders with a self-service data infrastructure that drives accuracy and faster time to value with your business dashboards and analytics.

erwin Data Modeler provides an agile foundation that equips users with governance, control and visibility of their business data for greater collaboration, accuracy, accountability and trust in enterprise analytics and business intelligence.

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