New Features and Enhancements

This section of the Release Notes for CA ERwin Data Modeler documents new features and enhancements for r8.2.

This section contains the following topics:

Licensing Enhancements

Database Support Update

Publishing CA ERwin Data Modeler Models to a Web Portal

Model Templates

Metadata Integration Bridges Updated

Enhancements for Diagrams

Licensing Enhancements

The CA ERwin Data Modeler licensing functionality has been enhanced to include the following types of licenses:

Local license

Is stored on your local computer. This license lets you use CA ERwin Data Modeler only from your computer.

Concurrent license

Locks to your License Server. With this license, you can access CA ERwin Data Modeler from any computer that is in the same network. This license is checked out from the License Server.

You can have Local and Concurrent licenses for CA ERwin Data Modeler Standard and Workgroup Editions.

A local license is ideal when a single user uses CA ERwin Data Modeler and a concurrent license is ideal when multiple users in a network domain use the product.

If you are using the concurrent licensing model, the licenses are stored on a License Server. You can install the License Server when you install CA ERwin Data Modeler. For more information about how to install the License Server, see the Installation Guide.