Power Designer

INTRODUCTION

PowerDesigner DataArchitect is the industry-leading data modeling tool. It offers a model-driven approach to empower and align business and IT. PowerDesigner enables enterprises to more easily visualize, analyze and manipulate metadata for effective enterprise information architecture.

PowerDesigner uniquely combines several data modeling techniques (traditional conceptual, logical and physical modeling with unique business intelligence and data movement modeling) to bring business analysis together with formal database design solutions. PowerDesigner works with more than 60 relational database management systems.

Models are fully integrated using unique Link and Synch technology. Models integrate across all model types for complete enterprise-wide or project-wide impact analysis. Impact analysis streamlines communication and collaboration to dramatically increase the entire organization’s responsiveness to change.

MODELING TECHNIQUES

PowerDesigner supports the following Modeling techniques

DATA MODELING

PowerDesigner supports Conceptual, Logical and Physical Data models, including Warehouse Modeling extensions, based on Information Engineering or IDEF 1/x notation.
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APPLICATION MODELING

PowerDesigner supports all UML diagrams and offers advanced object/relational mapping for persistence implementation management. PowerDesigner also supports XML-specific modeling techniques linked to UML and Data models.
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BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING

PowerDesigner supports intuitive, non-technical business process description and definition diagrams as well as process execution language modeling for BPEL4WS and ebXML.
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MODELING FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

PowerDesigner supports Enterprise Architecture from business goals through implementation using unique Link and Sync technology. This allows users to remove silos, increase alignment and improve business agility to respond to changes in economics, technology, competition and regulations.
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POWERDESIGNER MODELS ARE FULLY INTEGRATED

Using PowerDesigner’s Link and Synch technologies. PowerDesigner Models integrate meta-data across all model types.

POWERDESIGNER OFFERS SPECIFIC MODELING TECHNIQUES FOR SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS

Data modelers, data analysts, Architects and developers can take advantage of technology-centric metadata management capabilities while IT managers and non-technical folks can benefit from business-centric techniques: all integrated into one common, easy to use, framework.

ENTERPRISE REPOSITORY

PowerDesigner’s Enterprise Repository is a fully integrated design-time repository, hosted by your choice of relational database. PowerDesigner’s highly scale-able; remote-user friendly Enterprise Repository offers capabilities like: Role-based security on models and sub-models, version control and configuration management, merge, delta reports between models and versions, and comprehensive full repository search capabilities.

OPEN SUPPORT FOR ALL MAJOR DEVELOPMENT PLATFORMS

Supporting 60+ RDBMS, leading application development platforms like Java J2EE, Microsoft .NET, Web Services and PowerBuilder, and process execution languages like ebXML and BPEL4WS.

CUSTOMIZABLE

PowerDesigner offers fully scriptable MDA support, advanced support for UML profiles, common task automation through scripting languages and fully customizable DDL or code generation through templates and scriptable code generators.