Chapter 2 Introducing PowerDesigner

What is PowerDesigner?

PowerDesigner is a graphical and easy-to-use enterprise modeling environment which provides:

• Integrated modeling through standard methodologies and notations:
  
  Data (E/R, Merise)
  
  Business (BPMN, BPEL, ebXML)
  
  Application (UML)
• Automatic code generation through customizable templates:
  
  SQL (with more than 50 supported DBMSs)
  
  Java
  
  .NET
• Powerful reverse engineering capabilities to document and update existing systems
• A scalable enterprise repository solution with strong security and versioning capabilities to aid multi-user development
• Automated, customizable reporting capabilities
• An extensible environment, permitting you to add new rules, commands, concepts and attributes to your modeling and coding methodologies

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