The SMARTER® software lets you create information and data models and map out how information combines with business logic to form knowledge assets. You can graphically add detail to your models and show business rules, relationships between information elements, and your system's information logic.
Overview
In today’s business world, information is money. You have to know what, when, and where information is needed and how data combines to form information for decision-makers and customers.
CAD for Information Products
Understand how information combines with business logic to form knowledge assets. Find out what information is in your data and what information is not. Visualize new information products for your internal and external customers. Drive enterprise data standards from business information requirements. Quickly build visual information asset designs and automatically translate these designs into data specifications with the SMARTER® software.
Detail these designs with business rules, relationships between information elements, and your system’s information logic. Graphically display results and analyze them for completeness and consistency.
Fast-track Support for Information Product Design
Automatic information-product prototyping in ORACLE®, Microsoft SQL Server®, Microsoft Access® 2.0 and Access® 95/97 (under Windows NT). Generated prototypes include cascaded deletes, user-defined data types (including ranges and constraints), and full business rule enforcement.
- Legacy data source mapping into your information product designs
- Smooth migration of your information product designs to powerful data modelers such as ERwin®