DM Connect for DI Overview

erwin now offers an integration, DM Connect for DI, between two powerful products, erwin Data Modeler erwin DM) and erwin Data Intelligence (erwin DI). This offering enables you to maintain a single metadata and glossary source across erwin DM and erwin DI using erwin Mart Portal as an interface. Apart from this, DM Connect for DI offers the following benefits

• Use data models as a foundation for data governance initiatives
• Automatically update data catalog
• Maintain a business glossary based on naming standards

Workflow

erwin DM supports several target databases. It provides a powerful and robust workspace to create rich data models based on these target databases. Further, it provides connectivity to erwin Mart Portal; where you can store your rich data models in a mart repository.

erwin Mart Portal acts an interface between erwin DM and erwin DI. It enables you to schedule jobs to export data models and data sources from your mart repository to erwin DI Data Catalog and vice versa. Further, it integrates the naming standards set up on your models into the Business Glossary Manager.

erwin DI enables you to use your data models as a foundation for your data governance initiatives. It enables you to maintain a semantic lineage between metadata and business objects.

To summarize, erwin Data Modeler, erwin Mart Portal, and erwin DI work together as follows.

The following table explains the erwin DM, erwin Mart Portal, erwin DI version compatibility:

Products-Versions	erwin DI 10.0	erwin DI 10.1	erwin DI 10.2	erwin DI 11	erwin DI 11.5	erwin DI 12.0	erwin DI 12.1	erwin DI 13.0
erwin Mart Portal 2021R1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
erwin Mart Portal 12.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
erwin Mart Portal 12.1	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
erwin Mart Portal 12.5	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
erwin Mart Portal 12.5.1	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
erwin Mart Portal 12.5.2	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes