InfoSphere Data Architect is a comprehensive development environment for data modeling, relating
and integrating data assets, and developing database applications.
The product is built on Eclipse, which is an open-source platform
for creating application development tools.
InfoSphere Data Architect provides
the following features:
- Logical, physical, storage, dimensional, domain, and integration
data modeling
- Visual modeling through information engineering (IE) data diagrams
and topology diagrams
- Validation for models and deployed databases including naming
standard, syntax and compliance, normalization, and other best practice
validation
- Lifecycle management functionality, including impact analysis
across models and extended comparison and synchronization functionality
- Team support, including support for partitioning, cross-model
references, and source code management system integration
- A unique mapping editor that helps you relate different data structures
to each other with discovery capabilities to detect relationships
- Database code designers for SQL statements, stored procedures,
and user-defined functions
- Support for running statements in the database