PowerDesigner

PowerDesigner is the industry-leading business process / data modeling software and metadata management solution for data architecture, information architecture and enterprise architecture.

Overview

Features & Benefits

The latest release, PowerDesigner 16, is now available!Read More »

PowerDesigner - Modeling and Metadata Management

To understand how PowerDesigner can assist your organization, click on the link that best describes your architectural environments:

Data Architecture & Modeling
Enterprise Architecture
Information Architecture

Better BI
Data Warehousing
Mergers & Acquisitions
Data Governance

PowerDesigner brings powerful impact analysis, design-time change management and metadata management techniques to your enterprise.

Combining industry leading modeling and metadata management techniques, PowerDesigner is uniquely equipped to support all architectural environments. PowerDesigner’s metadata repository improves collaboration and communication between all stakeholders in the enterprise, facilitating quicker response to change for better business agility.

PowerDesigner allows you to:

Increases productivity	Aligns business and IT to help you improve overall productivity
Supports open environments	Provides open support for heterogeneous environments (available for delphi components)
Includes customization features	Is highly customizable to help you enforce standards and ensure regulatory compliance
Designed for the complex enterprise	Facilitates enterprise architecture implementations by intuitively capturing the intersections between all architectural layers and perspectives of the Enterprise
Provides analysis tools	Increases business agility with Link & Sync for true impact analysis

Resources

Most Viewed Resources

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PowerDesigner® for Enterprise Architecture
Sybase PowerDesigner is the most effective tool for managing and maintaining your enterprise architecture models and metadata, giving you the best IT planning decision support for the least amount of effort.
Data Governance, Data Architecture and Metadata Essentials by David Loshin
Data management industry expert, David Loshin, examines the challenges associated with the root causes of data centralization failure, and then reviews straightforward best practices typically ignored when systems are designed in an ad hoc, organic manner.
Sybase Unveils First Information Architecture Tool
PowerDesigner 16 Improves Enterprise Alignment to Enable Better Business Intelligence and Information Management, Reducing the Time, Cost and Risk Associated with Organizational Change.
Building ?In House? Frameworks with PowerDesigner®
Many organizations do not follow a particular Framework, but instead create their own. This data sheet describes how PowerDesigner is uniquely adaptable to support whatever components of a Framework that you create.
Model Support for the BI Lifecycle
This paper describes how powerful modeling tools like PowerDesigner can be invaluable in both developing and maintaining the BI environment.
Sybase and Troux to Integrate Products to Unify Enterprise Architecture and I.T. Planning Information
Relationship Brings Together Planning and Implementation Stakeholders to Accelerate Business Transformations.