I care about making sure my client's requirements are gathered correctly, accurately, precisely, and quickly. I care that the resulting design meets those requirements. I don't care what CASE tool you use. Defining how it is that you gather requirements based on the CASE tool that you plan use to generate the DDL is, frankly, silly. The two issues have nothing in common.
Analysis is about figuring out what the problem is.
Design is about figuring out how to solve the problem. The tool you use to capture your analysis and design models implements how you want to document the analysis and design. Don't even use a tool, for all I care. Rebuttal Good for you. I know a lot of meta-data people probably just spit coffee all over their monitor after reading that last bit.