The ERwin product family of database design tools is once again a favorite CASE tool among DBMS readers. ERwin provides sophisticated modeling, schema generation, reverse engineering, and application development tool integration features. Logic Works is now extending its product family to support modeling of complex data stored in Universal Servers. This happens to everyone, but DBMS readers who rely on Intersolv's PVCS version control and configuration management solution need not worry. With browser-based applications, HTML pages play an increasing role in today's applications, so a solid version control system is as essential as ever.
Access is unquestionably the most popular database manager for end users.
Being included in Microsoft Office certainly helps, but that only gives users the opportunity to use Access. Access also remains a popular front-end development tool used by developers. If data is not analyzed, then it won't be useful. BusinessObjects is a leading query, reporting, and analysis tool that is powerful yet easy to use. It can be used with operational databases, data warehouses or marts, and now within Web browsers.