Creating Conceptual Entity Relationship Models

Use the conceptual entity relationship model to create a normalized model without redundancies to your business data.

The conceptual schema is described using an entity relationship model. This shows entities and their relationships as nodes and edges in diagrams. The aim is to create a normalized model which is free of redundancies and contains domain data. Terms and names are chosen according to the users field of work.

The diagram editor for entity relationship models supports various notations. This means that each user can use which ever notation they are most comfortable with.

The editor is used for ER diagrams and table editors are used for entities and ER views.