PowerDesigner Highlights
Industry leading traditional database analysis and design is combined
with powerful technology for business modeling and leading edge UML
object modeling providing complete coverage of all modern techniques in
a single tool.With meta-data management, impact analysis features and a
true enterprise Repository, PowerDesigner defines
enterprise-modeling tools.
Common Features:
- Requirements
Management – Collect, link,
manage,
store and report on requirements with hierarchy, user allocation and
traceability matrix views with Microsoft Word import and
synchronization
- Impact
Analysis – Examine the up-stream and
down-stream impact to change. Easily and accurately visualize, document
and report on impact before changes are made to production
- Documentation
Generation – Comprehensive wizard
driven and powerful drag-and-drop report writers with List (Excel),
HTML and RTF output
- Highly
Extendable – Customizable GUI, profiles,
MDA, scripting
- Data Mapping
Editor – Drag-and-drop complex
Object/Relational, XML to database and warehouse source mappings
- Service
Oriented Architecture – Service
orchestration at business and technical levels
Modeling Techniques:
- Business
Modeling – Business Process
Modeling with
links to simulation with BPMN support
- Data Modeling
– Multi-level Conceptual, Logical,
Physical and Warehouse Data Modeling with support for modern techniques
like Java, XML and web services in the database, with IE and IDEF1/x
notation
- XML Modeling
– Unique physical paradigm supports
XML DTD and Schema artifacts
- Object
Modeling – Highly extendable UML 1.x and
2.0 modeling
- ETL, EII and
Replication Modeling – Highly
extendable UML 1.x and 2.0 modeling
- Enterprise
Modeling – Comprehensive Link and Synch
technology for ultimate meta-data management and complete, project and
enterprise wide impact analysis
Supported Platforms:
- Process
Execution – BPMN, ebXML, BPEL4WS,
Service
Oriented Architecture support
- RDBMS
– Full round-trip engineering for nearly 60
RDBMS, including the latest Oracle, IBM DB/2, Microsoft SQL Server,
Sybase, MySQL, NCR Teradata and many more
- Object
Languages – Full round-trip engineering for
Java J2EE, C#, VB.NET, PowerBuilder, XML, C++, Web Services and more
- Integration
with Development – Eclipse,
PowerBuilder and Visual Studio plug-ins with model to code
synchronization
Enterprise Repository:
- Team Solution
– Enable multiple modelers
to work
on the same model at the same time
- Meta-data
Management – Store, manage and version
PowerDesigner models and all other documents in a single location.
- Cross-Model
Impact Analysis –Store and maintain
cross model dependencies for complete impact analysis across the
enterprise
- Software
Asset Management – Find and reuse objects
across all models and projects
- Secure
– Role-based security with logging
capabilities and comprehensive permissions that limit access and
visibility to models and sub-models
- Open
– RDBMS hosted tables fully documented for
SQL-based reporting
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