Mechelen, Belgium, April 22, 2005 – Ikan Software NV today announced it’s new solution for designing and maintaining meta data, CWD4ALLTM. This is the first of a new generation of Data Warehouse design tools that are fully compliant to the OMG’s Common Warehouse Metamodel ™ and entirely based on standards, such as J2EE, XML, XMI, etc. Furthermore, CWD4ALL is aimed at a new and broader market in addition to the traditional large enterprise familiar with data modeling practices. The pricing is highly competitive and makes the solution accessible for all people that want an easy to use tool for all their information modeling needs; data, process, logical and physical database modeling and database generation.
“Database design is a critical discipline for IT organizations seeking to optimize both the quality of their business applications and the efficiency of their development teams, and maximize the effectiveness of their business intelligence environments,” said René de Vleeschauwer, Chief Technology Officer at Ikan Software. “We appreciate OMG’s continued development of CWMTM in this area, and we are committed to extending our position through technical innovation and responsiveness to our customers' evolving needs.”
Ikan’s CWD4ALL Design Tool is an integrated best-of-breed modeling solution that simplifies and accelerates the complex aspects of analyzing, designing, and implementing applications, Business Intelligence environments and business processes, including traditional high-performance transactional systems (OLTP), data marts and data warehouses for analytic processing (OLAP).
CWD4ALL includes features for:
- Automating the capture, validation, analysis and optimization of business and IT processes
- Providing scalable data modeling
- Verifying the integrity of database applications
- Visualizing, designing and maintaining enterprise components
- Extracting and analyzing metadata
- Designing meta data, such as multi-dimensional models from scratch or from other models
- Automating the definition and generation of DDL scripts of popular RDBMS’s
The latest version of the CWD4ALL design solution, delivers improved performance of critical functions such as reverse engineering and model synchronization, a simplified interface for automating model and database synchronization, and a highly open model management repository. It is available directly from Ikan Software in Europe, IKAN Group in the Americas, and authorized channel partners worldwide.
About Ikan
Ikan Software is the technology leader for meta data design solutions. The company delivers software products and services across database, etl and software life cycle and change management to optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Founded in 1986, Ikan is headquartered in Mechelen, Belgium, with North American offices in Waltham, Massachusetts and operates worldwide. For more information, please visit www.cwd4all.com.