Chapter 2 Getting Started with PowerDesigner

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 guide where 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

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