Next Steps

Now that you are familiar with the PowerDesigner Interface, you will want to start experimenting with a particular type of model suitable to your needs:

Requirements Model (RQM) - Now turn to the Requirements Data Modeling guidewhere you will learn how to:

Add, modify, promote and demote requirements in the requirements hierarchy

Allocate requirements to particular team members and add traceability links to other model components

Import requirements from a structured MS Word document

View traceability and user allocation reports

Enterprise Architecture Model (EAM) - Now turn to the Enterprise Architecture Modeling guide where you will learn how to:

Create diagrams in the business, application, and technology layers

Import Visio diagrams

Export and Import objects to and from other models

Business Process Model (BPM) - Now turn to the Business Process Modeling guide where you will learn how to:

Create Process Hierarchy, Business Process, Process Service, and Composite Process diagrams

Manipulate Service Description Objects

Generate an executable BPM, and implement processes

Conceptual Data Model (CDM), Logical Data Model (LDM), or Physical Data Model (PDM) - Now turn to the Data Modeling guide where you will learn how to:

Create CDM entities and relationships between them

Create LDM or PDM tables, columns, primary keys, indexes, and references and define referential integrity

Create PDM views, triggers, and abstract data types

Create business rules, domains, and data items

Generate a PDM from your CDM or LDM

Reverse engineer from and generate to database scripts

Work with PDM multidimensional diagrams

Information Liquidity Model (ILM) - Now turn to the Information Liquidity Modeling guide where you will learn how to:

Define databases, replication processes, event scripts, and other replication objects

Reverse engineer from and generate to the Replication Server® and Mobilink replication engines

Object-Oriented Model (OOM) - Now turn to the Object-Oriented Modeling guide where you will learn how to:

Design class, use case, and other standard UML diagrams

Generate a PDM with O/R mapping

Create an EJB

Deploy a component

XML Model (XSM) - Now turn to the XML Modeling guide where you will learn how to:

Define elements, entities, and other components of an XML schema

Reverse engineer from and generate to DTD, XSD, and XDR files

Generate an XSM from a PDM or OOM