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ER/Studio Business Architect vs. SAP PowerDesigner

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ER/Studio Business Architect
Score 0.0 out of 10
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ER/Studio Business Architect is a business process and conceptual modeling tool. It simplifies how business stakeholders and data architects document conceptual models and business processes and how those processes impact enterprise data, to align with business goals and regulatory requirements. The tool brings together the simplicity of a drawing tool with the rich semantics of the business process model and notation (BPMN) 2.0 standard. Business users and data professionals can model the…
$920
one-time fee per user
SAP PowerDesigner
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
SAP PowerDesigner (formerly from Sybase) is an enterprise data architecture modeling tool, used to Build a blueprint of the current enterprise architecture and visualize the impact of change before it happens.N/A
Pricing
ER/Studio Business ArchitectSAP PowerDesigner
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ER/Studio Business ArchitectSAP PowerDesigner
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing for new customers only, first year maintenance included. Maintenance includes access to technical support and product updates for the defined period of the agreement.—
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User Ratings
ER/Studio Business ArchitectSAP PowerDesigner
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
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10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ER/Studio Business ArchitectSAP PowerDesigner
Likelihood to Recommend
IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
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SAP
SAP PowerDesigner allows our team of data modelers to work and collaborate from a single repository and single data dictionary. This helps enforce consistency as data elements are referenced in other objects. Prior to our use of PD, we might have an element named "ppt" in one table, "participant" in another table and "part" in a third table. By forcing everything to be used from the data dictionary, we avoid these situations because everyone has to go to the dictionary. And we are able to easily do peer reviews on models before they are released because we are collaborating through the use of the repository.
Gene Baker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gene Baker
Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer
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Pros
IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
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SAP
  • Impact Analysis
  • The domain structure helps you to handle different data types to unify.
  • Moving between from conceptual model to logical model and from logical model to physical model is so easy.
  • It also excels at implementation of database vendor-specific physical options.
  • The repository structure helps you to use in multi developer and architect based organizations by the check in and check out mechanism.
  • It also has a fully configurable naming convention implementation.
  • Coloring is simple with format copying and pasting option.
Gurcan Orhan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gurcan Orhan
Principal Data Warehouse Consultant
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Cons
IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
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SAP
  • It took some time to figure out how to leverage the power of the repository. Some better examples in the documentation would have been helpful.
Gene Baker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gene Baker
Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer
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Support Rating
IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
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SAP
We did have to reach out to support to learn how to properly utilize the repository feature and share the data model across many developers. Support was able to help us get this set up correctly. The downside was it took us several weeks before we gave up and contacted support. We should have done that earlier. I would say, however, the documentation wasn't clear on how to do this. So support was a great big help!
Gene Baker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gene Baker
Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer
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Alternatives Considered
IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
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SAP
Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler : Unfortunately this tool only supports Oracle Databases as a target database, but has many features similar to SAP Sybase PowerDesigner. erwin Data Modeler: Has some issues when switching from Conceptual Model to Physical Model, Impact Analysis, and formatting copy and pasting. Vertabelo: Only supports online models and from a governance perspective, it is impossible for me to connect my target database with an online application because of company policy and regulation requirements.
Gurcan Orhan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gurcan Orhan
Principal Data Warehouse Consultant
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Return on Investment
IDERA (an Idera, Inc. company)
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SAP
  • Standardization of models
  • Impact Analysis
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Ease of deployment
Gurcan Orhan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gurcan Orhan
Principal Data Warehouse Consultant
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ScreenShots

ER/Studio Business Architect Screenshots

Screenshot of A drawing tool with the rich semantics of the BPMN 2.0 standard, where users can model the relationships between people, processes, and data with ER/Studio Business Architect.Screenshot of The Conversation diagram, a high-level representation of the Collaboration diagram. It shows various parts of the business process and who the participants are that engage in a particular process, with a logical relation of message exchanges.Screenshot of Choreography diagrams that show the exchange of information related to the messages between participants working together on tasks shown in the process. This defines the way business participants coordinate their interactions. Choreographies can also be connected in sequence to show a series of related tasks.Screenshot of A conceptual model, that captures the key categories and interactions of data objects that are used by the business, such as subject areas, business entities, interactions and relationships.Screenshot of Reference objects (e.g. steward, business unit, business rule, business element, and application) that can be included. Also can include external data objects (e.g. entity, table, view, data store, data feed, report, and flat file) in both BPMN diagrams and conceptual models.