Press Room

CA Enters Data Profiling Market, Bolstering Master Data Management Support in CA ERwin® Data Modeling Suite: Wednesday, December 10, 2008

CA (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Exeros to offer their award-winning data profiling software as part of the CA ERwin® Data Modeling Suite. With the new product, CA ERwin® Data Profiler, CA will extend support for Master Data Management (MDM) initiatives by offering the first integrated solution that combines data profiling and modeling.

Key to CA’s selection of Exeros’ data profiling tool is its ability to compare data distributed in different systems across the enterprise. The integration of CA ERwin Data Profiler and CA ERwin® Data Modeler greatly simplifies the task of identifying related information such as customer data, ensuring the data matches the structural design and modeling it for accurate and efficient use in applications, data marts, data warehouses and MDM hubs.

“Customers involved in MDM and other data intensive initiatives face challenges in understanding under-documented data in legacy systems and making it all work together,” said Sean Graham, vice president, software engineering for Data Modeling at CA. “By automating data profiling and integrating it with modeling, data analysts can more easily and effectively model cross-system data assets—greatly reducing time, cost and complexity for MDM and data warehousing and providing more complete information for business intelligence.”

“MDM and data warehouse projects require both strong data profiling and modeling capabilities to pull together business information from legacy systems across the enterprise”, said Piyush Gupta, CEO at Exeros. “The combination of ERwin, the clear leader in the data modeling market, and our innovative cross-system data profiling capabilities, provides data analysts with everything they need to achieve their goals.”

For more information on CA ERwin Data Modeling Suite, including CA ERwin Data Profiler and CA ERwin Data Modeler, please visit www.sandhillconsultants.com/modelingsuite.asp.

About CA ERwin Data Profiler

CA ERwin Data Profiler is a data analysis and profiling product designed to support source data discovery—the critical first phase of MDM or data warehouse (DW) deployments. It performs simultaneous cross-system profiling for multiple data sources. Participants at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) Master Data Management Insight conference recently selected the technology as the most innovative for MDM, citing its ability to address the complexity and risks involved in understanding distributed data in an MDM project.

About CA ERwin Data Modeler

CA ERwin Data Modeler supports the simple, efficient creation of high-quality databases and database applications by enabling the visualization and easy manipulation of complex data structures, the inventorying of information assets and the establishment of business-wide standards for managing data. It intelligently streamlines the design process and synchronizes the model with the database design.

CA ERwin Data Modeler recently garnered a “Reader’s Choice” award from Visual Studio Magazine readers who cited it for excellence in software design, frameworks and modeling. It also was named a best selling Design and Modeling and Deployment and Migration product by Programmer’s Paradise in their annual “Riding the Crest” awards.

About Exeros

Exeros, the leading data relationship management company, helps organizations identify, audit and remediate data inconsistencies and anomalies across their distributed data landscapes. Exeros' customers include some of the world's largest financial institutions and manufacturers. The company's innovative software products deliver the most advanced and complete solutions for discovering, auditing and remediating cross-system business rules, data lineage, hidden sensitive data and unknown data inconsistencies.

About CA

CA (NASDAQ: CA) is the world’s leading independent IT management software company. With CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.ca.com.

Copyright © 2008 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.