PowerDesigner 12.5, a model-driven approach to aligning business and IT, is an enterprise modeling and design solution that helps you implement effective enterprise architecture. It brings powerful analysis and design techniques to your development lifecycle.
PowerDesigner uniquely combines several standard modeling techniques (UML, Business Process Modeling and market-leading data modeling) together with leading development environments, such as .NET, Workspace, PowerBuilder, Java, and Eclipse, to bring business analysis and formal design solutions to the traditional software development lifecycle. And it works with more than 60 RDBMS.
PowerDesigner 12 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 12 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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