Update on CA ERwin Data Modeling Business

NEW YORK, November 3, 2014 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that the agreement to sell its CA ERwin® data modeling business to Embarcadero, announced on March 13, 2014, has been terminated. It is anticipated that the transaction would not receive required regulatory approvals in a timely fashion, and therefore would not meet certain closing conditions.

CA is highly focused on supporting and driving value for CA ERwin customers, partners and employees.  The company will continue to invest in and execute on product development, marketing and sales plans.  Mark Lukianchuk, a 17-year CA veteran, has been appointed to lead the CA ERwin business. Key members of the leadership team will remain in place.

The award-winning CA ERwin is the most-used data modeling tool among data professionals, and is sold almost exclusively through more than 500 partners in over 70 countries. In August 2014, CA ERwin was named “Best Modeling Solution” in the inaugural Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) magazine Readers’ Choice Awards.

For financial accounting purposes, CA Technologies will continue to recognize the CA ERwin business as discontinued operations.

Announcement from here.

Erwin supporting DaaS in the Cloud

In this White Paper in Information Management by Nuccio Piscopo he goes through how Erwin and Model Manager can together:

1. Ability to create models in heterogeneous database environments;
2. Ability to interface with business intelligence products;
3. Support of diverse cloud architectures (shared-nothing, shared-disk, hybrid);
4. Functioning irrespective of replication over large geographic distance or database parallelisation or time they are executed.

Having used Both Erwin and ModelManager together myself they have a strength of enabling shared models across different platforms with clear check-in/check-out across multiple persons changing the model at different levels at any time.

Interesting White Paper on using CA Erwin Data Modeller and Microsoft SQL Azure to move data into the Cloud

This white paper can be found in Information Management here and is written by Nuccio Piscopo who used to work for CA Technologies.

It uses a case study and identifies key actions, requirements and practices that can support activities to help create a plan for successfully moving data to the Cloud.  It also provides some useful insights into how to achieve a secure implementation.

Surprise as smaller Embarcadero buys CE ERWIN

It was a bit of a surprise to read that Embarcadero has bought CA Erwin considering that they are smaller. However I think that it fits in with their existing product mix of tools.  The deal includes the staff so I'm hoping there is a good level of continuity there.  I remember when Erwin was at Logic Works, then Platinum Technologies and finally CA Technologies so it will be interesting to see how the offering is going to be enhanced.

My guess is that Erwin will be integrated with ER/Studio and CONNECT to make a seamless link between the data model, metadata, information management and data governance.  That sounds pretty powerful to me in the area of Data Architecture (which fits in with Embarcadero's aim to be No1 in Data Architecture.