Announcing Embarcadero CONNECT, a New Metadata Governance Platform That Makes Your Database Tools Smarter and Your Users Experts

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 09/24/13 — , a leading provider of software solutions for application and database development, today announced the release of Embarcadero , the company-s new metadata governance platform. Embarcadero CONNECT is designed to make database tools smarter and users experts, by giving data “on-the-fly” business context and supporting it with collaboration capabilities. From database administrators, architects, modelers and developers, to governance administrators and business users, CONNECT is a one of a kind platform that puts all of an organization-s constituents on the same page without requiring existing technologies to be replaced.

Diverse data types are flooding organizations at an accelerating pace. While this can provide new opportunities for data management professionals and business data consumers, they must be on the same page before any real benefits of this data can be recognized. The first step toward achieving this is identifying critical data elements and obtaining a clear understanding of their sources and interactions. Enter CONNECT. CONNECT integrates your business definitions, models, and metadata with data management and development tools giving all your users “on the fly” business context for all your data. CONNECT provides a single, searchable registry of all available data sources, called the Enterprise Information Map. This map allows any authorized user to locate and utilize existing enterprise data via reports, glossaries and taxonomies, to make better use of data while adhering to business policies.

“CONNECT ties together previously siloed databases, metadata, models, and definitions in a collaborative platform that lights up tools and websites with the business context behind your data while enabling business users to find and -follow- the terms and business domains they care about,” said , Embarcadero senior vice president of products. “With CONNECT your business and technical users can do their jobs faster, easier and more accurately while supporting data governance, security, and standardization initiatives with minimal effort.”

In addition to mapping an organization-s data, CONNECT also features integrated collaboration and social capabilities, which allow users to define and publish valuable business and data definitions. With these crowdsourcing capabilities, users can collaboratively create, store, and centrally manage a single source of enterprise-wide business definitions.

improves data comprehension and reduces the risk of non-compliance by integrating key business terms and definitions in daily workflows and widely used database tools. Innovative in-line alerts and definitions make database tools smarter and users experts, increasing productivity and reducing data usage errors.

Embarcadero CONNECT key features:

– View, store and centrally manage authoritative business definitions in an extensible enterprise glossary.

– Create a single searchable registry of all available data sources to reduce the time you spend searching for data.

– Apply features such as activity and discussion streams, notifications and the ability to follow and like.

– View definitions for registered data elements or business terms directly in widely-used database tools.

Relate business terms to critical data elements including tables, columns, entities and attributes.

Embarcadero CONNECT is available immediately. For more information, visit .

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance, and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world.

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