Most database performance tools focus on what is happening in the database and fixing it, rather than preventing problems from occurring in the first place. Conversely, this is DB Optimizer's strength.
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Innovations in licence models rarely come from the small set of established major vendors – generally maintaining the status quo is more to their advantage in sustaining their existing revenue streams. Rather, it is the vendor organisations trying to open up a new market or break in to an established market that have the most to gain. Embarcadero has thrown a new ingredient into this pot, in its 'All-Access' variant on the 'all-you-can-eat' licensing model.
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Embarcadero has made its first major announcement with respect to how it is going to pull together its own, historic range of data management products with the development tools it gained when it acquired CodeGear last year.
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With the acquisition of CodeGear, Embarcadero set forth on a strategy to address companies' growing productivity and resource challenges as a result of database and platform hetrogeneity.
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Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking, wealth management and investment management services, with an extensive international presence in Europe, the U.S., Africa and Asia.
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Forrester examined the financial impact and potential return on investment (ROI) an organization can realize by deploying DBArtisan. The findings of the Forrester TEI study concluded that DBArtisan generated an 857 percent risk-adjusted ROI, and a three-month horizon to regain the investment. Read a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, The Total Economic Impact™ of Embarcadero DBArtisan.
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"Rapid SQL's main strength is in providing a solid development IDE for heterogeneous database platforms. Embarcadero makes downloading and testing Rapid SQL 7.4 a painless process by providing a fully functional 14-day trial version of the product on its Web site " More Info

"To be honest, my first impression of ER/Studio was 'Oh, my god! I'll never get familiar enough with it for a review during a 14-day trial period.' I was wrong. ER/Studio is very easy to use and offers many user-friendly features to help make your entry into the world of data modeling easier." More Info

"Despite what some people may think, data modeling is still the preferred method for creating database schemas. Unfortunately, modeling often gets pushed to the back burner in lieu of creating tables and relationships in the middle of coding the application. For those who would push data modeling to the front burner if only they had a better tool, there's Embarcadero's smooth and easy ER/Studio. Version 7.1 adds a number of exciting new features." More Info

"Immediate benefit in productivity has been realized since using ER/Studio from Embarcadero, especially when leveraging domains that represent template data types. These domains can be created hierarchically so specific properties are inherited from the parent domains. These domains help to ensure that we accurately represent many similar data structures with ease as well as guarantee that we understand the data represented in every data model design we develop." More Info (372 KB PDF File)

"It's no secret that many organizations are looking to cut IT costs. To do so, they're either requiring increased output from their highly skilled DBAs or simply replacing them with less skilled DBAs. What's helping to fill the gaps between overwork and inexperience? Software. We all know what a tugboat Enterprise Manager can be; in comparison, DBArtisan is downright snappy. DBArtisan provides value in terms of making management easier, and features such as strong object editors offer valuable services that help ensure better uptime, scalability, and reliability. " More Info (1 MB PDF File)

"At Dean Health Plan, we have more than 50 databases across three platforms -- Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase -- and two DBAs to manage them. We needed a way to efficiently handle day-to-day maintenance for multiple databases across multiple platforms. Having one tool to manage all of our database so that we are not spending hours trying to accomplish something simple gives us the time we need to meet our more strategic objectives." More Info (262 KB PDF File)

"The software is an update to ER/Studio 6, previously reviewed by the CRN Test Center. Version 6.5 adds valuable new tools and features, but retains its core competency as an application that works with DT/Studio to help developers and architects design and develop logical data models from hybrid data sources." More Info (625 KB PDF File)

"Without a doubt, the ability to make extensive use of automation was a key ER/Studio feature for us at Ambassadors. The combination of this functionality, the advanced reverse engineering, enterprise reporting, rich Oracle8.1.x and 9i support, all made ER/Studio a mainstay in our day-to-day operations." More Info (300 KB PDF File)

"Embarcadero recently released a new version of their top-of-line ER/Studio. This new version is chock-full of improvements, enhancements, and changes from the previous version..." More Info (207 KB PDF File)

Embarcadero ER/Studio eases the challenges for database developers dealing with the tremendous overload of data captured from business processes and other sources, making it one of the best database development tools ever tested by the CRN Test Center. More Info (174 KB PDF File)

"ER/Studio's big competitive advantage is its ease of use. Whether you want the product for data modelling per se, or you just want to document your existing system, this ease of use should be a major factor." More Info (1.6 MB PDF File)

"The data analysis capabilities of DT/Studio set it apart. . . it is crucial to understand your data if you want to have a successful [ETL-based integration] implementation, and DT/Studio provides this as a built-in facility." More Info (1.6 MB PDF File)

"Customers who have felt priced out of the extract, transform, and load (ETL) market will want to check out Embarcadero's DT/Studio." More Info (98 KB PDF File)

"Wendy's evaluated other tools, but no other toolset showed us more functionality in a limited trial period than DBArtisan." More Info (444 KB PDF File)

This review compares various third party tools versus IBM utilities. The portion dedicated to DBArtisan can be found at the link below. To read the entire review click here. More Info (External Link)

The key strengths of DT/Studio include the graphical interface and ease of use of the product. Additional strengths include the extensive database support and functions for data manipulation. More Info (449 KB PDF File)

"Embarcadero Technologies' latest version of ER/Studio, designed to do data modeling and database design, is full-featured and easy to use."

"Rapid SQL has tools that allow you to develop queries, view schema information, create new database objects, and perform a variety of database activities." More Info (External Link)

"DBArtisan has all the essential functionality that a DBA needs to administer a multivendor database environment wrapped in an intuitive graphical interface." More Info (301 KB PDF File)

"Whether you're coding stored procedures, triggers, or complex queries, Rapid SQL makes the job substantially easer. Its interface is exceptionally rich and intuitive." More Info (294 KB PDF File)

"Embarcadero's Performance Center offers the best interface and provides more detail about my database's availability and performance all on one simple screen. Database uptime and speed are critical aspects of DMIND's nGia database, and Performance Center gives me 24x7 monitoring abilities without a need to run the GUI." More Info (507 KB PDF File)

The new version of GDPro, now called Describe, allows automatic deployment of EJBs to most of the leading application servers in the market. Describe will also integrate with leading IDEs such as JBuilder to provide seamless syncs between UML diagrams and the code base created in the IDE. More Info (External Link)

Rapid SQL supports multiple databases transparently, integrates with Source Code Control tools, helps you manage your projects, provides build management, produces wonderful reports on any database object(s), and it has excellent help and support. More Info (External Link)

"DBArtisan is a very straightforward and easy-to-use application without the pressures of time-consuming training. It has an intuitive and efficient GUI, and you can't beat the price. Some other vendors require the purchase of several applications to equal the functionality of DBArtisan."

"ER/Studio's ease of use and intuitive GUI ensure that anyone on our team can quickly begin using the product to model databases and begin learning complex DBA tasks. ER/Studio's speed is very good for large database extractions ..."

"I cannot adequately emphasize the impact that ER/Studio will have on the success of your enterprise. The cost of the product is barely a concern compared to the money it will save your company and the modeling enhancements it will offer your development team." More Info (External Link)