“According to TopQuadrant Executive VP and Director of TopBraid Technologies Ralph Hodgson, the consistency and adaptability of data modeling may play an even more dire role for the enterprise today:
‘You have physical models and logical models, and they make their way into different databases from development to user acceptance into production. On that journey, things change. People might change the names of some of the columns of some of those data bases. The huge need is to be able to trace that through that whole assembly line of data.’