#1 most frequent
United States of America
36.3%102 installations of 281
What is SAP PowerDesigner?
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses SAP PowerDesigner
#2 most frequent
Canada
7.8%22 installations of 281
#3 most frequent
Brazil
6.0%17 installations of 281
PowerDesigner allows team collaboration and helps support strong data governance.
Pros
- Data modeling
- Maintaining a consistent data dictionary through the use of the repository.
- Custom templates for generating objects off of tables.
Cons
- 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.
Return on Investment
- Recently, the corporation started a big initiative on data governance and making sure we have the appropriate documentation. While other teams were scrambling, we were all set because we had our data dictionary and our many data models documenting the system.
- Great tool for team collaboration.
- Nice to be able to extend what the tool does through the use of custom templates.
Alternatives Considered
erwin Data Modeler
Other Software Used
MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas
Sybase PowerDesigner to Design databases
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- Licensing cost is based on user count
- Free licensed competitors exist, and they perform similar functions
- New database structures could be implemented more easily
Return on Investment
- Standardization of models
- Impact Analysis
- Graphical User Interface
- Ease of deployment
Alternatives Considered
SQL Developer and erwin Data Modeler
Other Software Used
SQL Developer, Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle Warehouse Builder
