PowerDesigner

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PowerDesigner is a collaborative enterprise modeling tool produced by Sybase. PowerDesigner runs under Microsoft Windows as a native application, and runs under Eclipse through a plugin.

PowerDesigner is estimated to have approximately 30% of the data modeling tool market share. PowerDesigner is priced from $3,000 to $7,500 USD per developer seat.

1 Features
2 History
- 2.1 Version History
3 Standards
4 Competitors
5 See also

[edit] Features

PowerDesigner includes support for:

Requirements Analysis
Object Modeling (UML 2.0 diagrams)
Data Modeling (works with most major RDBMS systems)
Business Process Modeling (ProcessAnalyst) supporting BPMN
XML Modeling supporting XML Schema and DTD standards
Data Warehouse Modeling (WarehouseArchitect)
Code generation (Java, C#, VB .NET, Hibernate, PowerBuilder, ...)
Report generation
Repository

[edit] History

PowerDesigner started life as S-Designer, which was written by Xiao-Yun Wang of SDP Technologies. SDP Technologies was French company that was started in 1983. Powersoft purchased SDP in 1995, and Sybase purchased Powersoft later that same year. Sybase currently owns all rights to PowerDesigner.

[edit] Version History

1989 - The first commercial release of S-Designer (version 2.0) in France
1992 - The first commercial release of S-Designer and in the US.
1994 - ProcessAnalyst was added to the suite in 1994.
1997 - PowerDesigner 6.0 releases.
1998 - WarehouseArchitect was added.
1999 - PowerDesigner 7.0 was rewritten to take advantage of newer technologies and to provide an interface more consistent with other Sybase products.
December 2001 - PowerDesigner 9.5 was initially released, with maintenance releases through 2003.
December 2004 - Version 10.0 (Minerva release)
2005 - Version 11.0
January 2006 - PowerDesigner 12.0 released with metadata mappings and reporting features
August 2006 - PowerDesigner 12.1 released with enhanced support for Microsoft VisualStudio and SQL Server