Working in an Entity Relationship Diagram

Entity relationship diagrams graphically display a submodel of the data pattern.

Entity relationship diagrams show a submodel of the data pattern. Entities are shown as nodes and relationships are shown as edges.

With elements for NoSQL, Data Vault, and multidimensional modeling as well as with special views, Innovator for Information Architects offers all of the main enhancements in entity relationship diagrams that are required for modeling in the Business Intelligence and Data Governance areas.

Innovator provides the following notations when configuring display options for ER diagrams:

• Chen

  Notation in accordance with Peter Pin-Shan Chen with (min,max) cardinalities

• DSA

  Notation in accordance to data structure analysis

• James Martin

  Notation in accordance with James Martin, Bachmann and Odell (also know as "crow's foot" notation)

• SERM

  Notation in accordance with structured entity relationship modeling from Prof. Dr. Elmar J. Sinz

• UML

  Notation in accordance with Unified Modeling Language

• IDEF1X

  Notation in accordance with IDEF1X standard (U.S. authority standards FIPS 184)