{"id":29113,"date":"2021-06-29T12:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T10:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.194.80.134.nip.io\/?p=29113"},"modified":"2021-12-06T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T09:08:22","slug":"sap-power-designer-data-model-driven-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cubeserv.com\/en\/sap-power-designer-data-model-driven-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Data-Model-Driven-Development with SAP Power Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
PowerDesigner is SAP’s industry-leading data modeling tool. It provides a data model-driven development methodology to support and align business and information technology (IT).<\/p>\n
In this article, we take a look at what SAP PowerDesigner is and how it can help organizations of all sizes manage data-driven digital transformation.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Source: Sybase (now SAP SE)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t SAP PowerDesigner is a graphical enterprise architecture (EA) and design tool that supports standard methodologies and systems. It provides customizable templates that automate reverse engineering and code generation.<\/p>\n With SAP PowerDesigner, organizations can conveniently visualize, analyze and manipulate metadata for effective enterprise information architecture. They can also plan and manage versatile business transformation initiatives.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t The data modeling tools help you create a blueprint of your existing enterprise architecture and see the impact of changes before they happen. It automatically captures architectural layers and requirements so you can leverage a powerful metadata repository and share the results with your organization.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t SAP PowerDesigner provides a robust solution for capturing, evaluating, transmitting, and maintaining enterprise architecture metadata:<\/p>\n SAP PowerDesigner helps companies create a layout or pattern of their existing architecture. They can improve efficiency in terms of the overall operation of their business.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Some other goals of SAP PowerDesigner are:<\/p>\n The tool provides a solid solution for the most complex situations through integration with SAPHANA, SAP Business Suite, SAP Information Steward software, Business Intelligence solutions and the SAP Solution Manager Application Management solution.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Important advantages of PowerDesigner for companies:<\/p>\n Data model-driven development is a format for writing and implementing software quickly, effectively, and cost-efficiently. PowerDesigner supports all types of data models. These models can be broadly categorized into three types:<\/p>\n It helps you analyze the conceptual structure of an information system and identifies the key entities that are important to an organization, their attributes, and the relationships between them. A CDM is more abstract than an LDM or PDM.<\/p>\n It helps you analyze the structure of the information system, independent of a specific physical database implementation. An LDM already includes entity identifiers, so it is less abstract than a CDM, but it does not allow modeling views, indexes, and other more specific physical data models.<\/p>\n It helps you analyze tables, views, and other database objects, including the multidimensional things necessary for data warehousing. A PDM is more concrete than a CDM and LDM. You can model, reverse engineer, and generate for all major databases.<\/p>\n PowerDesigner can link and synchronize these model types, which helps in generating a new model from an existing model.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Modeling plays an important role in enterprise architecture and PowerDesigner is the perfect solution. It unites all project stakeholders around a common communication base and helps them share their knowledge and collaborate.<\/p>\n SAP PowerDesigner has proprietary link synchronization technology that enables it to support enterprise architecture from goal definition to implementation. It gives users the tools to identify critical structures, strengthen collaboration between IT and business, and provide IT systems with the agility needed to respond to business, technological, and regulatory changes.<\/p>\n Some of the ways to support agility include:<\/p>\n SAP PowerDesigner supports enterprise architecture through the following functions:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t The enterprise architecture model can define and visually represent the core of the architecture. Thanks to link-sync technology, this model can be linked to other representations (e.g., data, processes, and requirements).<\/p>\n The impact analysis diagram provides a visual representation of variations to support fast and effective decision-making.<\/p>\n The enterprise repository is highly scalable and remote. It offers multiple features, including centralized management models, role-based security, versioning, comparison, merging, and searching between models.<\/p>\n By classifying connections and overlaps between systems, applications, databases, and other components, PowerDesigner provides technical and business professionals with a comprehensive vision that enables them to work more diligently and achieve common goals.<\/p>\n All of these benefits convinced me to use PowerDesigner to create and maintain the Enterprise Data Model<\/a>. Interested users and new project members learn how to use it very quickly.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t The product history (see Wikipedia https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PowerDesigner <\/a>) shows that the topic of data model-supported development has been with us for a long time:<\/p>\n At CubeServ, our mission is to help our customers achieve long-term success through strategic information management. By focusing on SAP products, we have extensive expertise in best practices, industry-leading solutions and excellent networking with SAP.<\/p>\n SAP PowerDesigner has helped us keep track of our projects and initiate an intensive dialog between business and development. Contact us to learn more about how we can help your company achieve agility through the use of PowerDesigner.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t In a small blog series, I’m looking at the different aspects of business analytics. Published so far:<\/p>\n How SAP PowerDesigner supports data model-driven development PowerDesigner is SAP’s industry-leading data modeling tool. It provides a data model-driven development methodology to support and align business and information technology (IT). In this article, we take a look at what SAP PowerDesigner is and how it can help organizations of all sizes manage data-driven digital transformation. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":26237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[508,544,558],"tags":[550],"class_list":["post-29113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-analytics","category-business-analytics-plattform","category-powerdesigner","tag-sap-powerdesigner"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat is PowerDesigner?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
\n
\n
Objective of SAP PowerDesigner<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
\n
SAP PowerDesigner advantages<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
\n
Data Model-Driven Development & PowerDesigner<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
Conceptual Data Model (CDM)<\/h4>\n
Logical Data Model (LDM)<\/h4>\n
Physical Data Model (PDM)<\/h4>\n
How PowerDesigner supports business agility<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
\n
Fully integrated models<\/h4>\n
Change Management<\/h4>\n
Enterprise Repository<\/h4>\n
Enterprise documentation<\/h4>\n
\n
Take advantage of PowerDesigner with CubeServ<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n