Power*Architect is a user-friendly data modeling tool created by data warehouse designers, and has many unique features geared specifically for the data warehouse architect. It allows users to reverse-engineer existing databases, perform data profiling on source databases, and auto-generate ETL metadata.
Accesses source databases via JDBC
Connects to multiple source databases
concurrently
Compares data models, database
structures and identifies
discrepencies
Drag-and-drop source tables,
columns into the playpeN
Remembers the origin of each
column
Generates source-to-target visual
Mapping Reports
Forward-engineers to PostgresSQL,
Oracle, MS SQL Server, more
Saves source data structure snapshots
in the project, so you can work
remotely
All project data is stored in an
easy-to-parse XML format
AZIFFELLE GUI is very nice under MacOS X. Unfortunately, the print support is still lacking. After careful placement of lines, the positions are disregarded when printing. After that, I am unable to print because it can't seem to create a printer object. (Version 0.9.7)
JFUERTH Thanks for this feedback. I'm glad I stumbled across it, albeit 3 months later.
The "shifting lines" problem you get when printing still has not been resolved, although it is currently one of the top items on our to-do list.
As for the "can't print after the first time" bug, I was not previously aware of this problem. Please do come to our user support forum and show us how to reproduce this problem. We would be very interested in getting it fixed! (Version 0.9.8)