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4 Seeing the Big Picture with a 360-Degree ViewGaining Efficiencies with SAP Sybase PowerDesigner

Additional Features and Benefits

Supported Modeling Techniques

Putting It All Together

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3Enabling Better Business Intelligence and Information Architecture© 2013 SAP AG or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

SAP® Sybase® PowerDesigner® software is a leading modeling tool that helps you to improve your business intelligence (BI) and information architecture. Using metadata management, the software benefits your data governance, BI, data integration, and data consolidation efforts because it establishes a 360-degree view of your key information assets. Enterprise-wide impact analysis functionality helps reduce the time, risks, and costs associated with changes throughout your information architecture.

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EmPowEr Your uSErS wITh A Common LAnguAgE for IT AnD BuSInESS

gAInIng EffICIEnCIES wITh SAP SYBASE PowerDesigner

SAP Sybase PowerDesigner has become a standard modeling tool for many organizations worldwide. With our proven com-mitment to innovations in data, information, and business modeling, SAP Sybase PowerDesigner is a safe choice for all your modeling environments.

At SAP and Sybase, an SAP company, we’ve emphasized ease of use for SAP Sybase PowerDesigner. Using a Microsoft Windows motif, the software’s highly customizable, graphical user inter-face makes it easy for your users to perform common tasks while empowering your advanced users with rapid access to all features. Additionally, with its robust modeling functionality, SAP Sybase PowerDesigner helps you to visualize, analyze, and manipulate metadata to streamline communication and collabo-ration between business and IT.

The software supports the following key benefits, helping you to: • Align business and IT – Obtain business and IT alignment

and team collaboration with our “link and sync” technology by creating connections between requirements, business language, and data models

• Improve team productivity – Give your developers a team-sharing environment with a secure metadata repository for all modeling types

• Document your existing systems – Foster greater enter-prise collaboration through flexible, wizard-driven documen-tation and Web-based, WYSIWYG reporting

• Support open software environments – Improve your under-standing of heterogeneous systems with support for leading XML, database, and process language standards within a sin-gle tool and framework; over 90 relational database manage-ment system (RDBMS) definitions are supported

• Enforce standards – Enforce corporate or regulatory stan-dards and practices through embedded Visual Basic script-ing, a fully scriptable interface, a customizable metamodel, and a fully documented application programming interface

• reduce the impact of change – Use our multimodel impact analysis to reduce the time and cost of implementing changes throughout your enterprise; integration of your requirements, analysis models, business models, and data models provides a comprehensive understanding of the changes

ADDITIonAL fEATurES AnD BEnEfITS

SAP Sybase PowerDesigner offers a range of features to help you manage the flow of information between business and IT in a single tool and to minimize the time, risk, and cost of changes to your information architecture. Key features include: • Customization – Along with its highly customizable inter-

face, you can optimize productivity by controlling everything from the user interface to the way the software manages modeling tasks and generates code.

• requirements management – Detailed requirements analy-sis links to all models for traceability; import and synchroni-zation with Microsoft Word places your users directly into the analysis and design lifecycle.

• Document generation – Wizard-driven WYSIWYG lists, multimodel documents, and fully hyperlinked Web reporting give your nonmodeling users secure, controlled access to metadata, while fostering greater communication among all members of your project team.

• Impact analysis – Models are fully integrated using our “link and sync” technology, tying all model types together for complete enterprise-wide or projectwide impact analysis, and streamlining communication and collaboration to dra-matically increase your entire organization’s responsiveness to change.

• Information mapping – Our drag-and-drop mapping editor allows for easy, fast, and accurate documentation of depen-dencies; you can simply drag to or from any supported source to target model pairs and create comprehensive mapping defi-nitions used in data dictionary definitions, impact analysis, and warehouse extract, transform, and load (ETL) documentation.

• metadata sharing – Using the portal composer component of SAP Sybase PowerDesigner, your users have full thin-client access to all authorized (by role-based security) metadata, including graphics and full element definitions and descrip-tions. With the portal composer, your users also can make edits to certain metadata directly through the Web interface, allowing for greater participation among a broader community and fostering a more collaborative atmosphere.

• Integration – The software integrates with SAP Information Steward software to provide data stewards with design-time data quality improvements.

Seeing the Big Picture with a 360-Degree View


• Enterprise repository – The software’s fully integrated design-time repository, hosted by popular relational data-bases, is a highly scalable, centralized metadata manage-ment utility that enables role-based security on models and submodels, version control, configuration management, version compare, impact analysis, and comprehensive search functionality. The repository helps ensure that all of your users have the latest metadata available, can take appropriate actions based on changes committed to the server, and share a single version of the truth.

• Enterprise glossary – SAP Sybase PowerDesigner lets you define your business terms and categories, complete with aliases, to fully align data models with your business lan-guage. It enforces the management of naming conventions throughout all models to ensure consistent naming stan-dards, business language alignment, and support for data stewardship and governance efforts. Easily import business glossary terms into SAP Information Steward’s metapedia.

SuPPorTED moDELIng TEChnIquES

SAP Sybase PowerDesigner supports a wide range of modeling techniques, which are described below and depicted in Figures 1 through 8.

Conceptual Data modelingConceptual data models based on Information Engineering (IE), Barker, or IDEF1X notation provide a database and technology–independent business representation of data concepts and core relationships.

Conceptual data models iteratively generate into one or more logical and physical data models based on desired levels of abstraction and approaches to information architecture from a common business view. See Figure 1.

figure 1: Conceptual Data modeling


Logical Data modelingLogical data models that are based on IE, Barker, or IDEF1X notation provide database-independent relational structures for use by developers and designers for optimization and understanding.

Logical data models can be developed independently or gener-ated from conceptual data models. Logical data models can generate to one or more physical data models. See Figure 2.

SAP Sybase PowerDesigner helps you to visualize, analyze, and manipulate metadata to streamline communication and collaboration between business and IT.

figure 2: Logical Data modeling


Physical Data modelingPhysical data models based on IE or IDEF1X notation let you document, generate, and reverse-engineer structures for over 90 RDBMS (including the latest from SAP, Sybase, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, NCR Teradata, MySQL, and more). Support includes database artifacts and advanced techniques such as Java, XML, and Web services in the database; security modeling; specialized handling of views; and more. See Figure 3.

figure 3: Physical Data modeling


Data warehouse modelingMultidimensional diagrams document the online analytical processing environments by representing cubes, facts, dimen-sions, dimensional hierarchies, and queries independent of the physical table structures used to store the warehouse or data mart information.

The data mapping editor links the source definition, ware-house, mart, and reporting environment together. This provides for clear impact analysis and design-time change management of the BI environment. See Figure 4.

figure 4: Data warehouse modeling

SAP Sybase PowerDesigner offers a range of features to help you manage the flow of information between business and IT in a single tool and to minimize the time, risk, and cost of changes to your information architecture.


XmL modelingXML models support canonical data models and physical XML structure definitions. The XML models generate or reverse-engineer structures for document-type-definition markup lan-guage and schemas. These models are mapped to data models to document XML and relational mappings as well as for defini-tions of XML in the database for RDBMS engines that support this concept. See Figure 5.

figure 5: XmL modeling


Enterprise glossaryCentrally managed by the enterprise repository, the enterprise glossary helps ensure that business terms and definitions are established and consistently managed throughout all models. This enforces consistent naming standards and business lan-guage alignment and supports data stewardship and gover-nance efforts.

When used in parallel with the enterprise glossary, the concep-tual data model in SAP Sybase PowerDesigner provides a true data dictionary. It streamlines communication by ensuring everyone is ”speaking the same language.” See Figure 6.

figure 6: Enterprise glossary figure 7: Data movement modeling

Data movement modelingExclusive to SAP Sybase PowerDesigner, the data movement model documents all aspects of information movement. Source-data stores, target-data stores, multiple transforma-tions, publications, and subscriptions serve to document any ETL, enterprise information integration, or replication process. See Figure 7.


PuTTIng IT ALL TogEThEr

SAP Sybase PowerDesigner supports a comprehensive set of data modeling techniques. The software helps business and IT to speak the same language, enabling better communication and alignment between the two. Additionally, the software gives you strong support for your data governance, BI, data integra-tion, and data consolidation efforts.

See Figure 8 for a snapshot of all the models that are available to you with SAP Sybase PowerDesigner software.

fInD ouT morE

To learn more about how SAP Sybase PowerDesigner software can help your organization, call your SAP representative today or visit us on the Web at www.sap.com/powerdesigner.

figure 8: Data modeling Techniques Supported by SAP® Sybase® PowerDesigner® Software

rEPoSITorYConceptual data model BPm Logical

data model

requirements model

Data move-ment model XmL model

Physical data model

replication definition

DDL rDBmS

XmL DTDschema

Forward engineering; Reverse engineering; Round-trip engineering; Import and export

BPM = business process management; DTD = document-type-definition; DDL = data definition language

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