Modeling and Architecture with SAP PowerDesigner

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Visualize, understand, & manage impact of enterprise change

Empower data, information, & enterprise architects

Capture all business requirements, design for the future, & communicate graphically

Visualize the links between all architectural layers to understand the impact of change

Improve collaboration between business & IT with intuitive visualization & reporting

Leverage data as a strategic company asset to drive greater value & efficiency

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SAP PowerDesigner Key Facts

50,000

25

Years

54%

3,000

Number of Customers Worldwide

Actively Using SAP PowerDesigner

Experience in Modeling Tools market, with

same core team since invention in 1989

Year over year growth for SAP in Modeling Tools

Market between 2011 to 2012 (Source: Gartner)

Uniquely Integrates a Data Modeling Leader

and an Enterprise Architecture Leader(Source: Gartner)

Unique Leadership

Largest concurrent users on a single

SAP PowerDesigner Repository

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Capture Design Communicate

Define current environmentDocument Existing Systems

Describe the interactionModel business & technical artifacts

with related metadata

SAP PowerDesigner

Design & plan for future“As-is” and “to-be” modeling

Streamline implementationGenerate Change

Integrate all aspectsTie business & technical viewpoints

across the enterprise

Realize impact of changeGraphical, bi-directional understanding

from architecture to execution

CollaborateCentral repository to communicate,

report and share

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Aligned

Business &

Technical Modeling

Integrated Information, Business and Technology Architecture

Architecture

Impact

Analysis

Fully

Integrated

Business and Technology

Models

Glossary for

Unified

Business Language

Enterprise

Modeling

Application &

Technology

Modeling

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SAP PowerDesigner Integration with SAP Technologies

Business Process Management & Orchestration Integration

SAP NetWeaver/BPM via XML Exchange

SAP Solution Manager Process Import/Export

SAP Business Suite

SAP ERP/ECC Import via API

Information Management

Forward and Reverse Generation for SAP Business

Objects Universe

SAP Information Steward reads the SAP PowerDesigner Repository

Database Technologies

SAP HANA via HANA Repository

SAP Sybase via ODBC/Script (Same for Non-SAP RDBMS)

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Model, Monitor, Measure, and Manage Information

SAP PowerDesigner & SAP Information Steward

Design your information architecture

Document existing systems

Model business & technical artifacts with metadata

Model architecture to execution

Communicate via shared repository

Scorecard visualization of data quality

High-level data quality scorecards

Validation rules oriented dashboard

Table/column data quality dashboard

Analyze root cause & analyze impact

Drill down capability from scorecards and dashboards to rules, data

profile, data and business terms

Understand impact of changes in your data structures and sources,

resulting in reduced risk and improved data quality

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Medical technology & manufacturing for cardiovascular disease, orthopedics,

neurology & diabetes

BI Objectives:

Align IT with corporate strategy & objectives

Provide quick, direct access to business-critical information (self service)

Improve Information Access & BI Group Productivity

Simplify & Automate BI Process

SAP Solution:

Comprehensive, centralized enterprise model

Simplified creation & maintenance of enterprise models

Easier cross-company communication

Business Analysts directly locate & access information they need

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Telecommunications company, fixed voice, broadband and TV services

Corporate Objective:

Deliver high-performance innovative mobile and broadband services

IT Objectives:

Sleek IT development (agile and streamlined)

Improve communication & common understanding

SAP Solution:

Enterprise Architecture Repository with as-is

& to-be integrated viewpoints & perspectives

increases communication & collaboration

Streamline implementation with link & sync

technology, impact analysis & reporting

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Financial services provider with complete range of financial and nonfinancial services

IT Objectives:

Improved reporting for better-informed decision making

Increase reporting productivity while reducing costs

Centralized governance for enterprise models

Align technical capacity with business needs

SAP Solution:

Centralized enterprise repository guarantees information

consistency and coherence

Link & sync technology shortens analysis time to increase

development productivity

Highly configurable to facilitate information systems management,

quality, integration, performance and governance

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The Company:

Kingfisher is Europe’s leading home improvement retail group and the third-largest in the world with nearly 970

stores in eight countries in Europe and Asia

It employs 80,000 people and nearly six million customers shop in its stores every week

The Challenges:

Complex environment: multiple warehouses, Oracle databases, Data Services, Master Warehouse – could not

produce reports in business acceptable timeframe

Required: BI project for a complete view of sales, margin & inventory across the company

The Benefits:

Increased common understanding by reducing the complexity of existing architecture

Improved knowledge transfer

Improved communication through models = “a picture is worth a thousand words”

Reduced implementation time

Reusability of KPIs to demonstrate impact of changes to the Enterprise

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Success = Business Focus + Business Execution

SAP PowerDesigner

Capture, Manage & Communicate

The Impact of Change in

dynamic & complex enterprises-

Integrated, Aligned & Agile Tooling

Focused on

Modeling & Metadata Management