The ERSIG organizers are pleased to announce the next ERSIG online meeting! Please join us on Wednesday, July 30, at 7PM UTC /6PM BST /1PM EDT /12PM CDT /11AM MDT /10AM PDT for...

"Going Beyond Database Modeling: LDMs for X-Solution Design and Integration," by Mehmet Orun from Genentech.

There will be a Q&A session following the presentation.

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Wednesday, July 30 at 7PM UTC /6PM BST /1PM EDT /12PM CDT /11AM MDT /10AM PDT

Meeting URL:

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/embarcadero/join?id=ERSIGJuly&role=attend

&pw=ERSIG

Alternate URL:https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/embarcadero/join

Meeting ID: ERSIGJuly

Entry Code: ERSIG

Audio Conferencing (Toll): +1 (702) 902-0735

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Participant Code: ERSIG

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ERSIG meets online for an hour every other month. Users from the ER/Studio community will present on a variety of topics and we will have a Q&A session following the presentations. Please visit http://www.embarcadero.com/resources/usergroups.html for all the latest ERSIG information.

We hope to see you online.

Best regards,

Your ERSIG Leadership Team

Bruce Baum, Chris Bradley, Mehmet Orun, and Kevin Phelps

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Karen Lopez: Musings on Data, Process, and Architecture Reading, Watching and Listening

Just a reminder that the Call for Presentations is open for the 2009 DAMA Symposium and Wilshire Meta Data Conference.  In addition to having the benefit of being located in Tampa, FL, the DAMA Conference is the best managed, most informative gathering of data and information management professionals anywhere on the planet.

The most common complaint I hear about is that it is too hard to pick one session to attend in any one hour.  Rob and I blogged about last year's conference (available via our home page at www.infoadvisors.com) so you can get a feel for the depth and breadth of topics being covered.

I'm guessing that some of you are thinking "there's no way my boss will send me this year" due to reduced travel policies.  Well, one way to overcome that objection is for you to submit a presentation abstract that is chosen for the program. Speakers have their registration fees waived, making it easier for you to justify this expense.  And if your presentation is chosen as a half-day or full-day topic, you can get your travel expenses covered as well.   So you can get yourself to the conference.  In fact, that's how I've done it for 10 years or so.

I'll be posting again soon with some tips on how to increase your chances of having your proposal accepted as well as some tips to overcome that one last thing holding you back: "but I'll have to SPEAK!"

Start thinking now about a topic and watch for the follow up posts.

CA ERwin Data Modeler Garners Reader’s Choice Award from Visual Studio Magazine

Cited for Excellence among Software Design, Frameworks and Modeling Tools by Microsoft Developer Community

ISLANDIA, N.Y., July 7, 2008 – CA (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that CA ERwin Data Modeler received a "Reader's Choice" award from Visual Studio Magazine. Readers chose CA ERwin Data Modeler for excellence in the software design, frameworks and modeling category based on its proven ability to add value, efficiency and performance to customers worldwide.

This year's annual Reader's Choice award is based on Visual Studio-related products receiving the most votes from a survey sent to over 23,000 Visual Studio Magazine subscribers. The ballot included over 400 products across 22 categories.

CA ERwin Data Modeler Garners Reader’s Choice Award from Visual Studio Magazine - CA

CA is offering discounted training on ERwin R7 Complete Compare via webinar to PLC Modeling members.  So you have another reason to join the ERwin PLC.  Use the link below to join the PLC and to find out about special benefits offered to PLC Members.

PLC Modeling UserGroupHome

Greg Keller, Chief Evangelist for Embarcadero, talks to Jason Tiret and Josh Howard about the the directions for ER/Studio and ER/Studio Enterprise Portal. 

One of the nifty things mentioned is that anyone who participates in the Beta program for ER/Studio Enterprise Portal is eligible for a 20% discount on that product when it is releases.  What makes participating in this beta much easier than most is that you can beta test it on their serve, which means no installing, no licensing, no getting the operations folks involved.  Just sign up, get your welcome message, give it a drive and boom, a 20% savings on license fees.

JOSH: The Enterprise Portal was basically designed to help Data Architects share and communicate the metadata stored in the ER/Studio repository, and make it available as a self-service reporting tool to the organization. And since the Portal is accessed through a browser, the Data Architect and their modeling teams can literally share all this rich metadata to hundreds of different users throughout the enterprise, whether they are business analysts, database designers, or application developers. Over the years, we witnessed so many of our ER/Studio customers, large and small, develop these hand rolled solutions to distribute metadata. Some very sophisticated...like what we are productizinig, and others mainly automated macros to pump out information from ER/Studio which was becoming known as this 'hub' of information at these customer sites. So, we made teh choice to productize this need and sell it to our customers in a manner that enables them to distrubute quickly and broadly in a way everyone gets: e.g. using a web browser.

GREGK: Indeed. I spent many hundreds of hourse working on this very problem with customers. So, when does Portal ship?

JOSH: While this product won’t be made available to the public until late August, interested parties can certainly test-drive the Portal by sending an email to betas@embarcadero.com or by visiting the beta center. We’re also throwing in a 20% discount to help incentivize those early adopters into trying the tool during the beta release.

:....:Meta Frequency:....:: A Q & A with the ER/Studio product management team