Chapter 6 Working with Enterprise Architecture Models

Importing Visio Diagrams into an EAM

You can import diagrams created in Visio into PowerDesigner. Importing your Visio diagrams into PowerDesigner's rich metadata environment enables you to link your architectural objects with the objects that will implement them, and to profit from PowerDesigner's powerful impact and lineage analysis features.

For information about Impact Analysis, see the Impact and Lineage Analysis chapter of the Core Features Guide .

Installing the Visio plug-in
To import Visio diagrams, you must have Visio installed on your machine and have selected to install the Visio plug-in from the PowerDesigner installer.

PowerDesigner supports the import of diagrams from the following Visio versions:

Visio 2002
Visio 2003
Visio 2007

You can import the following diagrams into an EAM:

Visio diagram	PowerDesigner EAM
Organization Chart	Organization Chart Diagram
Software/ Enterprise Application	Application Architecture Diagram
Network/ Basic Network Diagram/ Detailed Network Diagram	Technology Infrastructure Diagram
Active Directory	Organization Chart Diagram
LDAP Directory	Organization Chart Diagram

For information about the diagrams you can import to the PowerDesigner BPM, see Importing Visio Diagrams into a BPM in the Working with Business Process Models chapter of the Business Process Modeling guide.