Football and Data Models: How Teams Collaborate for a Common Goal

How uniting a football team around a common goal is like uniting IT and business users collaborating over a data model Football is back, baby! As the crisp fall air starts to roll into all our lives with the aroma of pumpkin spice wafting towards us from a nearby Starbucks and hoodies coming out of […]

Q: Is data modeling cool again? A: It always was and is getting cooler!! In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, data reigns supreme. The data-driven enterprise relies on accurate, accessible, and actionable information to make strategic decisions and drive innovation. Amidst the evolving technological landscape, one constant remains despite the ongoing attacks from nay-sayers: the importance […]

The World Wide Data Vault Consortium (WWDVC 2023) started today and erwin® by Quest®, one of the few active participants working toward a Data Vault 2.0 certification with the DataVaultAlliance, is announcing major advancements in our erwin Data Vault Automation solution. erwin by Quest provides a comprehensive suite of automation, data modeling, data intelligence, and […]

*** This blog is based upon a recent webcast that can be watched here. *** As with part 1, part 2 ,and part 3 of this data modeling blog series, this blog also stresses that the cloud is not nirvana. Yes, it offers essentially infinitely scalable resources. But you must pay for using them. When […]

*** This blog is based upon a recent webcast that can be viewed here. *** For NoSQL, data lakes, and data lake houses—data modeling of both structured and unstructured data is somewhat novel and thorny. This blog is an introduction to some advanced NoSQL and data lake database design techniques (while avoiding common pitfalls) is […]

Highlights in this blog: erwin Mart on Cloud 12.1 Account-based licensing Continued DBMS support, including NoSQL On the heels of its erwin® Data Modeler 12.1 general availability release on June 7, less than one month later, Quest Software® announces a new offering: erwin Mart on Cloud 12.1. Register to attend our What’s New webinar, hosted […]

When it comes to providing innovative data modeling functionality, erwin® Data Modeler by Quest® has always delivered. And the latest release, slated for early July, is no exception. So, what does erwin Data Modeler R12.1 bring to the table? Drumroll, please… A new data modeling SaaS feature We’re excited to announce that erwin Data Modeler […]

*** This blog is based upon webcast which can be watched here. *** Designing databases for data warehouses or data marts is intrinsically much different than designing for traditional OLTP systems. In fact, many commonly accepted best practices for designing OLTP databases could well be considered worst practices for these purely analytical systems. Accordingly, data […]

Best practices and expert advice for OLTP data modeling, design, and normalization for the cloud.

erwin Data Modeler R12 offers GitHub repository integration for DevOps, expanded NoSQL database support and UI enhancements.