ER/Studio Multiplatform 17.1

Data Architect:

• SQL Server 2017 has been added as a new platform version, allowing customers to differentiate between SQL Server 2017 physical models (forward & reverse engineering) and earlier versions.
• MongoDB 3.2, 3.4, 3.6 have been added as new platform versions, giving customers the ability to work with newer MongoDB versions. MongoDB have now dropped support for all earlier versions prior to 3.2, since 3.2 and later use the WiredTiger storage engine. ER/Studio still supports MongoDB 2.6 - 3.0, allowing customers a transition path as they move up to the latest versions. (NOTE: support for MongoDB 2.4 and earlier has been discontinued in ER/Studio).
• Improvements were made to Hadoop Hive support for Kerberos authentication, easing complexity for customers.
• The following improvements for reliability, consistency and customer experience:
  • Data lineage quality improvements.
  • Business Data Object (BDO) quality improvements.
  • Compare & merge improvements (multiple platforms).
  • DDL Generation quality improvements.
  • New MetaWizard import/export updates.

Repository & Team Server:

• New Repository/Team Server Hosting Platforms, allowing customers to use the latest technologies.
  • Windows Server 2016 OS
  • SQL Server 2017
• Team Server/Repository TLS 1.2 certification, allowing compliance with more stringent security requirements.
• Repository Permission Improvements. An individual user will now have access to a project folder or diagram if any group they belong to has access. This provides better consistency and usability in managing repository permissions.
• Performance improvements in migration from previous releases, increasing environment availability.
  • General increases of 90%+ improvement, but some large environments are seeing even greater gains.
• Change Management quality improvements to Jira integration for better consistency and user experience.
• Publishing quality and performance improvements, improving user experience.
• Interactive viewer quality improvements, improving user experience.