One of our utility clients uses MS Visio as its logical data modeling tool. MS Visio is designed as a drawing 
tool,not as a professional data modeling tool by Microsoft official statement. To create DDL from MS Visio diagram is not straightforward; usually it takes lots of efforts.
We prefer to use UML modeling instead of ERD modeling. Since to adopt object-oriented design in database field is better aligned with object-oriented application design. In order to achieve this goal, we did some research on quite a few tools in the market, and we found Visual Paradigm is an ideal UML modeling tool in data architectural design.
Below is a case study regarding how we transit client’s data model from Visio to Visual Paradigm in their data warehouse project, and how we utilize Visual Paradigm in this project to save time and effort.
