The following help you be highly productive in your environment:
Rich-client environment: work in a highly productive rich-client environment, with a native look and feel
Disconnected mode: work well in a disconnected mobile environment when you’re “on the go”
Strong visual editors, minimal pop-ups, and well-synchronized views laid out to maximize productivity
Powerful window, view, perspective, and tool management
Reduction of steps to configure solutions
Wizards to help you get started and configure projects
Auto-creation of objects, auto-value, auto-connection, auto-layouts
Strong copy/paste within and across editors
Full keyboard support in all editors in a way that only a client can perform
Full undo/redo in most editors and views
Ability to scale the UI from basic to more advanced views
Ability to filter key views to see as much or as little as you need to see
Integrated XML editor with syntax highlighting, auto-suggest, and search and replace
Very efficient, compact, powerful, and productive off-line schema management tools
Value history on many fields to reduce typing
Many preferences and settings that tailor the UI to how you want to use the product
Logs and traces that are easy to access and view
Thorough contextual help and powerful searchable help system
Quick and very easy installation
Auto-Update
Auto-update installation notifies you of any updates and easily pulls them in.