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Case Study: Data Modeling Transition for BI

One of our utility clients uses MS Visio as its logical data modeling tool. MS Visio is designed as a drawing dmtool,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...

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Introducing Alfresco Content Management Solution

Nowadays, there are quite a few content management systems available on the market. Almost every big vendor has their own solutions in this arena. IBM got FileNet in early days, HP paid $10B for Autonomy, Oracle has its UCM (acquired from Stellent), Adobe acquired CQ from Day Software.

alfresco_logoExcept all these big players, Alfresco offers quality open source suite for enterprise content management needs. The solution is impressive. It doesn’t require high-power clustered servers to run, alternatively, you may even install and play with it on your laptop. The implementation of Alfresco presents some big trends in IT industry: quick implementation, modularized, integrated some market-approved products, such as Apache Tomcat, PostgreSQL and LibreOffice (a sibling of OpenOffice), etc.

Here’s a b...

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