Chapter 2 What's New in PowerDesigner 15.0

EAM diagrams

Feature

The PowerDesigner enterprise architecture model (EAM) provides seven types of EA diagrams that allow you to model your business processes and technology infrastructure, and to show the relationships between them. The diagrams in the EAM are divided into three layers as follows:

• Business Layer:
  
  
  • Organization Chart – represents the structure of an organization in a graphical tree format
  • Business Communication Diagram - can be used to analyze and display the relationships, flows, and other connections between business elements.
  • Process Map - can be used to identify the business architecture independent of people and organization units and to describe the business functions and classify the processes.
  • City Planning Diagram - allows you to focus on the big picture of your enterprise architecture.
• Application Layer:
  
  
  • Application Architecture Diagram - shows a high-level view of the application architecture, and allows you to identify applications, sub-applications, components, databases, services, etc, and their interactions.
  • Service Oriented Diagram - allows you to associate applications and other objects in the application layer with business services and other objects in the business layer to assist with SOA design.
• Technology Layer:
  
  
  • Technology Infrastructure Diagram - displays a high-level picture of the physical architecture deployed in the enterprise.

Where?

• Enterprise Architecture Modeling

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