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PowerDesigner for Enterprise Architecture

POWERDESIGNERS UNIQUE APPROACH TO MODEL DRIVEN ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE PowerDesigner uniquely integrates the business view with the information and technology views in a single environment. By standardizing on PowerDesigner for integrated modeling, our customers have increased their success in developing better IT systems, better managed the cost and risk of systems re-engineering. They have, overall, achieved a higher degree of success and satisfaction with Enterprise Architecture projects.

Figure 1 PowerDesigner Enterprise Architecture

BUSINESS AND IT ALIGNMENT Business and IT alignment increases communication and allows for successful management of the migration from the as-is systems to the to-be systems that support business strategy and goals. Ultimately, we are all tasked to develop projects that meet business goals without causing disruption in business continuity. By using integrated models to define all aspects of the enterprise architecture with comprehensive impact analysis and traceability tools, we can be sure of the cost and reduce the risk associated with each change on the road to the future state. REDUCE TECHNICAL CENTER COSTS Hardware and software costs are decreasing while overall IT costs are increasing. This is an indicator that there is a shift from technology to management services. Having a grater understanding and consistent definitions and descriptions of the enterprise architecture reduces the burden of systems management. This understand also reduces the costs associated with development, implementation and
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maintenance of those systems. Also, by using a standardized set of modeling tools users increase the consistency and reliability of the enterprise architectures documentation of the systems, reduces project redundancy and increase technical adaptability. Effectively assisting in getting more done with less which reduces overall technical center costs. SARBANES OXLEY AND BASEL II COMPLIANCE The purposes of regulations are to ensure that people are all doing the same thing and that they are all doing the right thing. Using an integrated set of modeling techniques will increase effectiveness in IT working with Sarbanes Oxley, Basel II or any other regulatory standard or set of standards by ensuring accurate and complete traceability between information and source quality assessments, how that is aligned to process (and transformation) and final reports. IT is taking a center stage in defending regulatory compliance audits and metadata management is taking center stage in the process and integrated modeling ensures that the right metadata is available.

ACHIEVE MANAGEABLE SERVICE ARCHITECTURES Everyone is talking about the benefits of moving to service oriented architectures and the benefits of IT development centered on orchestrating business processes through use of pre-built, internally developed and purchased service components. The need to align the business view of the process with the orchestration view, together with the data and application (service) components that fulfill the requests is significantly increased. Ultimately, you cannot achieve maintainable service architectures without having these layers and techniques aligned. With an integrated set of modeling techniques designing the enterprise architecture we are sure that the business conceptual levels are aligned with the physical implementation in any process or workflow engine, and that the necessary services are available, centralized to reduce redundancy and aligned with centralized views of corporate data. POWERDESIGNER FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE A MODEL APPROACH No matter what the motivation for undergoing an enterprise architecture project, it is clear that integrated modeling is essential. Modeling describes things before implementing them. Models try things out, test hypotheses, all without affecting production. Models provide excellent communication tools Modeling provides the metadata needed for traceability, regulatory compliance, transparency, impact analysis and other critical success values PowerDesigner uniquely combines all necessary modeling techniques together in a single environment to maximize the value of the metadata center while minimizing the effort to create and maintain the central repository. POWERDESIGNER INCREASES ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE ROI We know that each company, situation and project is different. PowerDesigner is customizable and extensible to account for unique requirements, and can be easily adapted to provide any of the work deliverables used to prove the value of any enterprise architecture project. Milestones and deliverables include: impact analysis of proposed changes difference reports to track changes applied traceability reports to track regulatory compliance any mix of qualitative or quantitative measures PowerDesigners approach to metadata management makes it easy to develop a foundation to show how satisfied users are in what enterprise architecture projects deliver.

MODELING TECHNIQUES AND ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE Technology-centric approaches like the Unified Modeling Languages (UML) and Domain Specific Languages (DSL) have been seen as too low level for effective enterprise architecture. Conceptual, high-level to logical to physical, as needed, is a much more effective approach. However, combining the granular elements (from UML, data and process models) with the enterprise conceptual and contextual views can be very time consuming and typically involves too much detail to abstract effectively. Using an integrated set of models at all levels of abstraction with intelligent logic to automate the definition of cross model and cross layer dependencies can greatly reduce the burden of matching the top-down with the bottom-up approaches, maximizing the value of the enterprise architecture project while minimizing the effort needed to get the right levels of abstraction in context with the detailed implementation of enterprise systems. MODELING AND METADATA LEVERAGED FOR SUCCESS Sybase is the largest global enterprise software company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information from the data center to the point of action. Enterprise Architecture and Metadata Management provide a key element for providing open, cross-platform solutions that securely deliver information anytime, anywhere, and to enabling our customers to create an information edge. To support your business strategies effectively and develop a truly Unwired Enterprise, you need to ensure consistency across your IT systems and deliver new solutions quickly. Agility is the key to dealing with business change. Sybase PowerDesigner offers a model and metadata driven solution that gives companies: Better alignment between the business community and the IT organization Better control over their existing systems Greater business and technology agility and ability to change Standardizing on PowerDesigner for enterprise architecture projects gives unique link and synchronization capabilities for all layers of abstraction from contextual to physical, and all aspects of enterprise architecture form business strategy to information architecture to application components. PowerDesigners unique capabilities reduce the risk, time and cost associated with enterprise architecture projects while easily adapting to provide effective deliverables to maximize the value of the metadata collected.

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