SAP PowerDesigner Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

Data Architect/Data Scientist with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 23, 2017

The publicly accessible meta-model is the foundation for utility scripts, report and general model-to-model or model-to-text generation

What is most valuable?

Meta-model
Template generation
Library Models

The publicly accessible meta-model is the foundation for utility scripts, report, and general model-to-model or model-to-text generation.

Library models are referenced across projects.

How has it helped my organization?

Impact Analysis
Traceability

Set of models with a rich set of intramodal and intermodal dependencies, which caters for modelling of upstream and downstream dependencies, allowing for Impact Analysis and Traceability.

What needs improvement?

Reverse-engineering of late JDK and .NET.

Use third party parsers and enhance Object-Oriented metamodel to cater for newer language features.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No.

How are customer service and support?

I did not use the paid support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

No.

How was the initial setup?

Straightforward.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

ERwin.

What other advice do I have?

Use source reference models for your industry and implement as library models.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

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BI Analyst at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Jun 29, 2015

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PowerDesigner is more powerful than Erwin, including data modeling which is non-existent with Erwin.

What is most valuable?

The customized Data Model validation because, in short, PowerDesigner offers the capability to check if the the model was done following the best practices of data modeling . This capability can be customized to review other internal validation processes.

How has it helped my organization?

Less time spent with Data Administrators and therefore more agile approvals Data Model. This is because the Data Administrator spend less time in Logical Model validation, as PowerDesigner does the majority of the checks.

For how long have I used the solution?

Approximately one year.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues encountered.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No issues encountered.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No issues encountered.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

I have not used them.

Technical Support:

I have not used them.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I previously used Erwin and I switched because PowerDesigner is a more powerful tool. PowerDesigner is more powerful than Erwin in many ways, but to highlight one, the capability mentioned about the Data Modeling is non-existent on Erwin and in my opinion, it is very important.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

No other options were evaluated.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.