Overview

In today’s business world, information is money. You have to know what, when, and where it is needed and how data combines to form information for decision-makers and customers.

CAD for Information Products

Understand how information combines with business logic to form knowledge assets. Find out what information is in your data and what is not. Visualize new information products for your internal and external customers. Drive enterprise data standards from business information requirements. Quickly build visual information asset designs and automatically translate these designs into data specifications with the SmartER® software.

Detail these designs with business rules, relationships between information elements, and your system’s information logic. Graphically display results and analyze them for completeness and consistency.

Fast-track Support for Information Product Design

Automatic information-product prototyping in ORACLE®, Microsoft SQL Server®, Microsoft Access® 2.0 and Access® 95/97 (under Windows NT). Generated prototypes include cascaded deletes, user-defined data types (including ranges and constraints), and full business rule enforcement.

	Legacy data source mapping into your information product designs.
	Smooth migration of your information product designs to powerful data modelers such as ERwin®.