Use Cases
One of Europe's leading telecommunications firms use of PowerDesigner to implement Better Business Intelligence with the use of Modeling
One of Europe's leading mobile telco networks faced a risky but necessary business-critical change - an upgrade to its Enterprise Data Warehouse environment. The client was concerned their existing data modeling tool would not provide it with all the information needed to migrate its environment in a controlled manner and chose Sybase PowerDesigner to manage this project with minimum time, cost and risk. Sybase was not only able to demonstrate the value of its market leading data modeling tool for the job at hand, but additional capabilities in business process modeling and modeling for enterprise architecture is on-deck for upcoming projects.
60% Reduction in Project Completion Time with PowerDesigner
A worldwide nonprofit education group faced problems with understanding and information sharing. This caused long project cycles, artifact definition inconsistencies, and incorrect implementations. They realized that PowerDesigner was the only modeling tool that could provide a repository-based environment. PowerDesigner provided a 60% decrease in the time it took for them to complete new projects.
Software Consulting Team Redesigns and Replaces Production Databases Using PowerDesigner
A software development team consulting for an online retailer needed to help the growing business analyze and overhaul its database. They turned to PowerDesigner, to ensure that the business was running the way the principals thought it was, and to evaluate what would be needed to bring the systems into compliance with the principals’ vision for the future. The team then re-engineered the database architecture using PowerDesigner and implemented a “wrap and replace” method of upgrading the business applications.
PowerDesigner® Eliminates Data Inconsistencies and Deficiencies
A healthcare benefits company that was going through a number of mergers and acquisitions was not able to provide a consistent view of their data due to inconsistencies and deficiencies in their current data modeling tool. The firm used PowerDesigner. This organization was asked to provide consistent views of all data both conceptually and physically. Then from these views describe and define data elements to model and enterprise data model, build common definitions for like elements and increase data quality thereby ensuring a successful merger and acquisition process and delivery of member benefits.
State Agency Improves Communication Between IT and Business Users with PowerDesigner®
When a U.S. agency with more than 16,000 employees decided to move from a mainframe-based environment to a Web and service-oriented environment, they selected PowerDesigner as their CASE tool because of its configuration and cross-domain capabilities. The integration of process and technology within the product, and the ability to configure it, allows the development of a simple framework for communication based on terms the business and technology areas understand.
