Sybase SA will showcase the latest release of its modelling tool, PowerDesigner 9.0, at Computer Faire 2002, which will be held at Gallagher Estate in Midrand from 21 to 24 May. The enterprise infrastructure company's exhibit will be located at Sun's Java Pavilion.
PowerDesigner provides business-centric, non-technical personnel, as well as IT management and staff, with a modelling solution that simplifies and accelerates design and development of software applications. Its Enterprise Repository streamlines communication and collaboration among team members, enabling component re-use and lowering software development costs.
"PowerDesigner 9.0 is a truly integrated enterprise application analysis and design environment with full-featured business, data and object modelling capabilities," says Julie Tomlinson, sales and marketing manager at Sybase SA. "It gives all business team members an easy way to model and design business processes."
The solution is targeted at application designers and developers, IT directors and managers, database designers, business analysts, and line-of-business managers.
"The graphical, intuitive user interface allows non-IT staff - including business analysts, line-of-business managers and C-level executives - to focus on business process modelling and streamlining communication with IT, while providing a global view of all models shared across team members."
PowerDesigner boosts productivity through effective application modelling and code generation (Java and .Net) from analysis performed with UML (unified modelling language) diagrams. It generates and reverse engineers business logic for leading development languages such as Java, XML, PowerBuilder and others. "Because PowerDesigner 9.0 supports unified modelling for data and components, it enables organisations to use Web services in alignment with business needs," adds Tomlinson.
New features in PowerDesigner 9.0 include:
Enhanced capabilities for application modelling for IT designers, architects and developers, including:
. UML: new activity and component diagrams added to the existing, improved use case, sequence, and class diagrams.
. Strong Enterprise Java Bean 2.0 generation.
. True object/relational mapping between UML and data models.
. Integration with popular IDEs and support for leading application servers.
. Data warehouse modelling.
. An extensible and customisable infrastructure with VB scripting and template-based code generation and reverse engineering.
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