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INTRODUCING THE WORLD’S FIRST INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE TOOL
DAVID DICHMANNPRODUCT LINE DIRECTOR, SYBASE, INC.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
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“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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ARE YOU ABLE TO…
… react quickly to changes in competition, regulation and customer/stakeholder demands?
… guarantee consistency and accuracy of reports with data defined differently throughout your enterprise?
… keep business goals and business intelligence implementations in lock step?
… demonstrate to management the value of business intelligence investments?
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… a Clear Understanding of Your Current Environment?
… Agility to Respond Quickly to Changes in Business & IT?
… Methods to Streamline Development & Deployment?
DO YOU HAVE….
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MODELING TOOLS EVOLVETechnology Innovations in Modeling Tools to Address Drivers and Trends
• Business-Centric User Interfaces for Metadata Changes– Business Users Get Own UI for Entering & Changing Metadata– All Business Metadata Collected into Same Pool as IT
• Integrated Business Glossary Standardizes Business Language– Single Enterprise Resource for Identifying Business Definitions– Aligns to All Design Artifacts: Naming Standards, Traceability
• Tools Enforce Standards with Libraries and Frameworks– Global Structures, Framework Support & Automated Enforcement
• Increased Integration Between Models & Metadata– More Automation in Dependency Collection & Tracking
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FOCUS ON INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
DATA ARCHITECTS MATURE INTO INFORMATION ARCHITECTS
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Increasing Data
Quality
•Trusted BI is used more
Increasing Reliability
•Available systems are used more
Increasing Data
Integrity
• Ease information understanding
Increase Change Agility
• Warehouse never out of date
INCREASING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ROIData Warehouse & BI System Owners Increase ROI by Increasing Demand for Services
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MODELING: BETTER BI BUSINESS VALUE Modeling & Metadata Management Contribute to Developing Better Business Value
agile data warehouse
improves business agility.
Traceability ensures source and transformation quality
Good Architecture minimizes failure
points, speeds reaction
Impact Analysis & management
reduce time, cost, risk
Source Definitions
ensures correct integration
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ARCHITECTING THE NEXT GENERATION
Data Management
Decision Support
Enterprise Architecture
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UNIQUE LINK & SYNC TECHNOLOGY
Link and Sync technology removes metadata silos, increases business & IT alignment and enables rapid response change
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KEY DIFFERENTIATORS FOR IA MARKETKey Capabilities Separating PowerDesigner from Competition in IA Markets
• Fully Integrated Business Modeling– Business Process Modeling Fully Linked to – Conceptual Data Models Fully Transformable to – Logical and Physical Data Models Traceable with– Data Movement Models Documenting All Movement
• Full Heritage and Lineage from Business to Technology• Enterprise-Wide Impact Analysis from One Tool• Change Management to "Operationalize" Architecture
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WHAT’S NEW IN POWERDESIGNER V16?Improvements to All Areas, All Capabilities
• Common Improvements– New Product Shell and Role-based User Interface– New Symbols and Drawing Features
• Improvements for Information & Enterprise Architects– Enterprise Glossary: Global Business Terms– Repository Impact Analysis, Portal Enhancements– Repository Portal Composer
• Improvements for Data Modelers– Updates to RDBMS Definitions & Some New Ones (Netezza)
• Sybase IQ Reference Architecture Wizard
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NEW SHELL AND USER INTERFACEModern Look and Feel, Improved Ease of Use, Extend to Non-Technical Users
• New User Interface–Windows 7 Look & Feel– Tabbed Documents– Collapsible Toolboxes
List & Icons, Auto-hide• New Shell– Role-Based UI
Select Menus, Tools
–Only What You Need– Nothing You Don't
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NEW SYMBOL AND DRAWING FEATURESImprove Communication and Collaboration with Easier to Read Diagrams and Symbols
• Enhanced Editing– Edit Attribute Details
• Horizontal Symbols– Better Readability
• Attribute Value Icons– Communicate w/Icons
• Automatic Routing & Bridges– Follow Lines Easier– Create Neater Models
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NEW ENTERPRISE GLOSSARYRepository-driven Business Terms to Align All Design to Business Language
• Global Business Glossary– Business Terms– Folder Hierarchy– Related Terms
Any Association
– Synonyms Other "Names" for the
Standard Term• Align to Design Anywhere– Use in Naming Convention– Check & Auto-complete
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REPOSITORY-BASED IMPACT ANALYSISExtends Reach of Impact Analysis to All Models Across the Enterprise
• From a Model– Launch Impact Analysis– Cascade Search to Linked
Repository Objects• From the Repository– Launch Impact Analysis– Cascade Throughout
Repository• Create IA Diagrams• Generate IA Reports
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NEW WEB PORTAL CAPABILITIESImpact Analysis & Search Improve Community Collaboration Over the Web
• New Quick Search– Search on Names, Codes
or Other String Fields– Direct Search UI
No Configuration Needed No Query Def'n Needed
• New Impact Analysis– Impact & Lineage– Analysis of Any Object– Tree-view Output
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NEW WEB PORTAL COMPOSER TOOLExtend Collaboration to New Concepts & Ideas, Validate Business Details, and More!
• Read & Write Over Web– Update Text Fields
Name/Code Comment
– Update RTF Fields Description Annotation
• Web RTF Updates:– Export Text to Word– Update in Word– Save & Upload to Portal
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NEW & UPDATED RDBMS SUPPORTImproved DBA Alignment and Productivity with Latest RDBMS Standards
• New or Updated for– DB2 UDB v9.7 CS– DB2 v10.x for z/OS – Netezza v5.0 –MS Access 2007 and 2010 –MS SQL Server 2008 R2– Sybase Adaptive Server
Enterprise v15.7 – And more:
Sybase IQ, ASA, Rep Server
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IQ REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE & SIZINGStreamline Sybase IQ Implementations with Architecture Patterns & Sizing Estimates
• PDM & EAM Together– Determine IQ Architecture– Configurable Servers
Anticipate Workload Anticipate Data Size
– Comparison Tools• Cost vs. Speed– Configurable Parameters– Determine Cost vs. Speed– Determine Optimal
Hardware Choices
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ADDITIONAL NEW FEATURESImprovements for Environment Compatibilities, Ease of Use, Modeling & Metadata Management
• Library Models– Library of Reusable Model Content, Sync'd by Repository
• Shortcut Improvements– "Full Content" – Easier Understanding & Navigation
• Extended Dependency/Traceability Link Improvements– Ext. Dependencies Traceability Links, Type Grouped– Ease Understanding of Link & Sync Dependencies
• New Environments–Windows 64-bit & Eclipse v3.6–MS Office 2010 & Visio 2010 Add-in Support
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POWERDESIGNER PRODUCT DEMONSTRATION
ALIGNING BUSINESS VIEWPOINTS WITH INFORMATION ELEMENTS FOR ENTERPRISE INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
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BENEFITS OF MODLEING
• Reverse EngineeringUnderstand
• Impact AnalysisManage
• Patterns & TemplatesDrive
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WHAT’S WORKINGWhat's Working for PowerDesigner in the Marketplace
Gartner says: PowerDesigner "[…] will appeal to organizations that want to use a single integrated modeling and metadata management solution as one of their core EA strategies — particularly those with a strong focus on information architecture in depth."*
* 28 October 2010: G00207406, "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools", Chris Wilson, Julie Short
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FOLLOW UP--LEARN MORE, DO MORE!Custom Demonstrations Available Worldwide
• Schedule a Customized Demo– Learn New Tips and Tricks During a Lunch and Learn– Improve Evaluation Experience with a Customized Demo
• North America: – Call 1-800-8SYBASE and Press ‘1’ for Sales Option – Tell Them You Want to Schedule a PowerDesigner Demo
• Outside North America: – Please Contact Your Local Sales Office
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FOLLOW UP--LEARN MORE, DO MORE!
• For more information on how PowerDesigner can help your organization’s information architecture needs, visit:
http://www.sybase.com/IA
• For analyst papers, technical whitepapers, on demand webcasts and more…
For More Information Please Visit:http://www.sybase.com/powerdesigner