Why use IDERA ER/Studio?
    The ultimate collaborative enterprise data architecture and modeling
    solution
    IDERA ER/Studio is a powerful modeling and metadata collaboration solution
    that helps you design a business-driven data architecture.
    Define your architecture: Document your enterprise architecture with
    business processes, entities, and data flows that accurately represent your
    organization and its priorities.
    Go deeper with data models: Build a solid data architecture foundation with
    logical and physical transactional and dimensional models, to maximize
    corporate data value.
    Import existing data stores: Incorporate your active data stores into the
    data models quickly and easily with reverse engineering, to leverage work
    that has already been done.
    Establish standards: Improve comprehension by applying naming standards
    templates to your models, for consistent nomenclature between the logical
    and physical layers.
    Collaborate on metadata: Capture business terms and their definitions in a
    central metadata repository where key stakeholders can access and
    contribute to corporate knowledge.
    Enable data analytics: Enable business intelligence and analytics by
    mapping data lineage for sources, targets, and transformations for
    enterprise data.
    Manage model revisions: Track model changes associated with development
    tasks and user stories, and manage versions using the integrated model
    repository.
    Improve data consistency: Make it easier for DBAs and developers to align
    their work with the defined data architecture for better visibility and
    consistency.