PowerDesigner

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SAP PowerDesigner
(and SAP Sybase PowerAMC)

SAP
Stable release	17.1 / April 2020; 4 years ago (2020-04)
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Available in	English (PowerAMC: French)
License	proprietary
Website	www.sap.com

SAP PowerDesigner (or PowerDesigner) is a

. The internal file structure can be either XML or a compressed binary file format. It can also store models in a database repository.

The PowerDesigner data modeling tool's market share in 2002 was 39%.^[1] It's priced from $3,000 to $7,500 USD per developer seat.^[2]

Features

PowerDesigner includes support for:

• BPMN
• Code generation (Java, C#, VB .NET, Hibernate, EJB3, NHibernate, JSF, WinForm (.NET and .NET CF), PowerBuilder, ...)
• RDBMS
  systems)
• Data Warehouse Modeling (WarehouseArchitect)
• Eclipse plugin
• Object modeling (UML
  2.0 diagrams)
• Report generation
• Supports
  functions to the BPM module to enhance business processes
  design.
• Repository It refers to a repository of models (enterprise, information, data).
• Requirements analysis
• DTD
  standards
• Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 addin

History

PowerDesigner started life as AMC*Designor in France and S-Designor internationally, which was written by

The data modeling features of the French and English editions were originally following 2 different methodologies:

works) for PowerDesigner. Since version 7, both editions support all methodologies and only differ from their user language. From v16.6 onwards, both editions are called PowerDesigner and are delivered in a single installer.

Version History

• 1989 - The first commercial release of AMC*Designor (version 2.0) in France
• 1992 - The first commercial release of S-Designer in the US.
• 1994 - ProcessAnalyst was added to the suite in 1994.
• 1995 - S-Designer becomes PowerDesigner, AMC*Designor becomes PowerAMC
• 1997 - PowerDesigner 6.0 releases.
• 1998 - WarehouseArchitect was added.
• 1999 - PowerDesigner 7.0 was rewritten to take advantage of newer technologies and to provide an interface more consistent with other Sybase products.
• December 2001 - PowerDesigner 9.5 was initially released, with maintenance releases through 2003.
• December 2004 - Version 10.0 (Minerva release)
• 2005 - Version 11.0
• January 2006 - PowerDesigner 12.0 released with metadata mappings and reporting features
• August 2006 - PowerDesigner 12.1 released with enhanced support for Microsoft Visual Studio and SQL Server
• July 2007 - PowerDesigner 12.5 released with new ETL (
  Enterprise Information Integration) modeling and full UML
  2.0 diagrams support
• October 2008 - PowerDesigner 15.0 released with new
  Barker's Notation
  , Project support and lot more
• November 2011 - PowerDesigner 16.0 released with new Shell, Role-based UI, Glossary, Impact analysis on the repository, Sybase IQ reference architecture wizard, New database support, Web portal enhancements
• January 2013 - PowerDesigner 16.5 released with new features supporting
  SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Netweaver and SAP Solution Manager
• March 2016 - PowerDesigner 16.6 released with Support for SAP HANA Calculation Views and SAP HANA Core Data Services (CDS). PowerDesigner Web can now edit Enterprise Architecture and Requirements Models.
• April 2020 - PowerDesigner 16.7[5] released with new features supporting: Export from Web privilege, Limit the choice of model types offered in New Model dialog, New models added, Customize link symbol labels, Generate Models using the CSN notation, OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials authentication^[6]

Standards

PowerDesigner supports the following standards:

• BPEL4WS
• BPMN
  )
• DTD
  )
• ebXML
• IDEF
• IE/Information engineering
• Merise
• RDBMS
• Rich Text Format (RTF)
• UML 2.0 diagrams
• XML
• XML Schema

See also

• Comparison of data modeling tools

References

External links

• SAP PowerDesigner webpage