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ER/Studio Provides the Structural Framework For Medallion Architecture

ER/Studio is designed to help businesses seamlessly implement Medallion Architecture. It integrates with leading tools like Microsoft Purview and Collibra and supports lakehouse platforms such as Databricks, Azure Synapse, and Google BigQuery. It enhances your ability to model, govern, and manage data across every layer, ensuring data quality and compliance.

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ER/Studio is our tool of choice for supporting our enterprise-wide governance program. No other enterprise data modeling tool has the scope to handle BP’s demands.

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Knowledge Management at BP

Medallion Architecture

Gain Necessary Structure And Control With ER/Studio

The success of an organization depends on its ability to gather and store data and cultivate a data culture that fosters trust, collaboration, and informed decision-making. The Medallion Architecture, consisting of structured layers—bronze, silver, and gold—ensures scalable, high-quality, and actionable data pipelines. It empowers organizations to transform raw data into refined insights that drive decision-making, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure compliance.

For a deeper breakdown of how this works in practice, see how ER/Studio models each medallion layer.

Where ER/Studio Makes A Difference For Medallion Architecture

Enterprise Data Modeling Enables a Consistent Lakehouse

ER/Studio is all about building enterprise models that reflect the business and using them to design consistent data assets. Using these models to design the lakehouse layers ensures that data is consistent across the entire business reducing ambiguity and risk.

Integrate Seamlessly with Databricks for Scalable Data Lakes

Databricks is at the forefront of data lakehouse architectures, offering the ability to process batch and real-time data at scale. ER/Studio integrates seamlessly with Databricks to support bronze, silver, and gold layers in Medallion Architecture, ensuring raw data is ingested, refined, and transformed into high-quality data for advanced analytics and machine learning.

A Structured and Efficient Design Process for Success

The success of a Medallion architect lies in good design. The silver layer must be aligned with the business and the gold aligned with the business requirements. ER/Studio provides a solid base to build business-friendly models that drive physical designs for the lakehouse layers that provide a clarity in the journey from requirements to data sourcing.

Comprehensive Data Governance with Collibra & Purview

ER/Studio integrates tightly with your data cataloging tool to ensure that governance is baked into your lakehouse design process. ER/Studio also supports your Data Product supply chain by publishing logical data models for Products back to your data catalog.

Metadata Management Ensures Context and Compliance

Research from Gartner and McKinsey highlights how metadata tracking strengthens governance, enhances lineage, and automates compliance, ensuring data quality and supporting scalable AI and machine learning initiatives. ER/Studio allows the documentation of schema with quality metadata.

Business Glossaries Standardize Data and Drive Governance

Research from IDC and Forrester shows that glossaries reduce silos, improve data governance, and foster collaboration. ER/Studio connects your schema designs to Business glossaries to ensure that the warehouse follows the same structures set by data stewards and that governance polices are understood throughout the whole process.

Why Choose ER/Studio for Medallion Architecture?

ER/Studio is built to produce effective designs for data assets that deliver against requirements and include well-documented and standardized structures with governance policies well-understood. Good design in ER/Studio allows for a lakehouse that is better quality and easier to manage.

Clarity at Every Stage

From capturing business requirements through understanding data sources and then designing the layers, ER/Studio ensures schemas are well understood and documentation is available to all.

Scalability and Flexibility

ER/Studio provides good architecture for your lakehouse, allowing you to manage change quickly as your lakehouse grows.

Efficient Data Governance

By synchronizing metadata with Purview and Collibra, you can understand and enforce security policies, and maintain regulatory compliance across all medallion layers.

An Agile Design Environment

As changing requirements come in ER/Studio provides a controlled process to deploying those changes through to code supporting you CI/CD processes and integrating with your Git repositories.

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