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Empower data, information, and enterprise architects

Empower data, information, and As IT landscapes grow more complex, a visual representation of your enterprise architects enterprise architecture can increase communication and collaboration. SAP® PowerDesigner® software helps you build a blueprint of your current architecture in its entirety and understand its many interdependencies. It can also help you visualize the impact of potential changes to the architecture.

Big Data, social media, and cloud computing a powerful metadata repository, and unique make it more important for IT organizations to “link-and-sync” technology. By letting you understand their existing architecture before provide more complete, accurate, and reliable implementing transformative technologies information about your enterprise architec- that must integrate with legacy systems. ture, the software helps you: •• Maximize operational efficiencies for SAP PowerDesigner software helps you smoother business processes document your current technology and •• Improve business strategies through better manage change to your enterprise by provid- and smarter decisions ing a simplified visualization of complex •• Meet internal and external compliance architectural components that makes them regulations to reduce risk more understandable and accessible. Robust •• Make the most of SAP and non-SAP tools support a model-driven architecture technology design using industry-standard techniques,

Drive change by optimizing your current architecture

Drive change by optimizing your SAP PowerDesigner is an architecture- and goals. Tools for design-time change current architecture modeling tool for business transformation. management can streamline the changes. The tool of choice for enterprise architecture Link-and-sync technology helps you integrate A powerful tool for business and business process management, it offers business and technical aspects of change transformation intuitive support for visualization and report- across your enterprise. Full lifecycle version ing that can improve data access and use. management helps you act quickly on each step while retaining control. Capture your current architecture: SAP PowerDesigner offers multiple, integrated Communicate the impact of change: SAP models to document existing systems visu- PowerDesigner fosters decision consensus ally and help you understand how business on change alternatives with a full impact and technical environments interact. There analysis, from designing new architecture are many options for reading in and aligning through to its execution. Stakeholders can metadata already in your enterprise. collaborate more effectively using an enterprise repository through which they share Design architectural changes: metadata representing all layers of abstrac- SAP PowerDesigner can also help you design tion and publish all architecture knowledge systems for future business strategies in a secure, scalable environment.

A powerful tool for business transformation

Drive change by optimizing your SAP PowerDesigner offers robust support for ADDING GROWTH AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION current architecture the following core areas: – TELENOR SVERIGE AB •• Enterprise architecture Telenor Sverige AB, the Swedish mobile operations A powerful tool for business •• Collaborative business process modeling unit of telecommunications giant Telenor Group, transformation •• Intelligent business operations implemented SAP® PowerDesigner® software for a •• Business intelligence and information clearer picture of its enterprise architecture and the architecture potential impact of changes to that architecture. The •• Data modeling and data architecture new architecture repository helps Telenor maintain a single, dependable source for all company information. Enterprise architecture: SAP PowerDesigner addresses the decision-making needs of each The repository has enhanced communication and distinct business area of an organization, understanding between IT and business managers and providing the specific information each area helped the enterprise streamline new development. Enterprise artifacts can be easily identified and reused, needs in the language it recognizes. The further increasing efficiency. software ties all of the data, metadata, and diagrams together through its link-and-sync technology. It is the only tool on the market that provides the functionality for automati- Continued on next page cally and intuitively capturing the intersections between all layers and perspectives of your enterprise architecture. It gives users from all groups a clear view of the state of your technology today and the impact of potential changes.

Drive change by optimizing your Collaborative business-process modeling: Intelligent business operations: Integration current architecture SAP PowerDesigner helps decision makers with SAP Business Process Management see interconnections between architectural software and the SAP HANA® platform helps A powerful tool for business elements and know which parts of the SAP PowerDesigner streamline the planning, transformation business will be affected if the architecture design, and communication of business- changes. You can design proposed changes process definitions. You can capture current and represent them visually, conforming to processes in normal business terms to drive the ways managers are used to seeing infor- new designs for process management. mation, for a clear impact analysis that helps them understand and buy in to the changes. Stored in a central repository, the models of information architecture that you create SAP PowerDesigner reduces complexity by support a consistent understanding of abstracting relationships between people, business-process definitions. Keeping pro- systems, and objects and representing the cess communication clear helps establish a relationships visually in preferred formats. A single, accurate view of company information. central enterprise glossary helps ensure that business terms and definitions are estab- lished and consistently managed throughout Continued on next page the organization.

Drive change by optimizing your Business intelligence and information archi- HELPING EMPLOYEES FIND THE DATA THEY NEED current architecture tecture: The robust modeling functionality – MEDTRONIC INC. in SAP PowerDesigner helps you streamline Medtronic Inc., a global player in medical technology, A powerful tool for business communication and collaboration between implemented SAP® PowerDesigner® software to make transformation business and IT as you improve the produc- it easier for employees to access company data. Using tivity of your development team. It provides the software, Medtronic created a comprehensive and support for open software environments and centralized enterprise data model and made it available helps enforce corporate or regulatory stan- globally. Employees can now readily locate and access dards and practices through a fully scriptable the information they need, and data architects can interface, a customizable metamodel, and a focus on developing business intelligence. fully documented application programming interface. “Using the tool’s repository instead of storing models on our network made version control easier and allowed efficient communication with employees,” says Eric Popp, Medtronic IT manager for business intelligence architecture.

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Drive change by optimizing your Data modeling and data architecture: IMPROVING PROFITABILITY AND CUSTOMER current architecture SAP PowerDesigner supports more than 80 SERVICE – MOZZART relational database management systems. A leader in sports betting in the western Balkans, A powerful tool for business It helps cross-functional teams visualize, Mozzart implemented SAP® PowerDesigner® and SAP transformation analyze, and manipulate metadata for effec- IQ software to analyze the profitability of 50,000 daily tive database design and implementation of betting games. The company can now review game data architecture. It combines powerful tools performance in real time and adjust odds to improve for impact analysis, traceability of require- profitability and the customer experience. ments, and information mapping with formal database design techniques. It supports SAP PowerDesigner helped Mozzart efficiently build the multiple types of modeling for full metadata data warehouse for SAP IQ and makes it easier to add integration. new reports. “Our development team can represent all the data we use in one repository,” says Bojan Sovilj, who oversees research and development for Mozzart’s technology systems.

Visualize, understand, and manage enterprise change

Visualize, understand, and manage SAP PowerDesigner can break down silos of aligns business, information, and technology enterprise change data and create a 360-degree view of your views without additional effort or process information assets that streamlines col- change. It captures dependencies at the time laboration and communication. The software of discovery and allows for easy bridging helps you understand and reduce the cost among all sources of metadata to create an and risk of proposed changes throughout aligned and integrated modeling source for your organization and integrate systemwide change management and business planning. viewpoints and perspectives to improve decision making. SAP PowerDesigner can consume and centralize models from a vast number of You can use the common view of your current sources to give you a true command center architecture created by SAP PowerDesigner for managing information as a corporate to create an environment that facilitates asset. By helping ensure that your enterprise ongoing quality assurance and streamlines maintains the highest degree of integrity, the integration among architectural components. software can increase user trust as you meet The software minimizes manual processing today’s challenges and plan for the future. through automation and synchronization and

Summary Solution SAP® PowerDesigner® software helps organi- •• Robust modeling of business, information, zations plan and manage complex business application, and technology architectures transformation initiatives. The software’s •• Automatic capture of enterprise architec- integrated modeling tools, with link-and-sync ture layers technology, enable you to visualize the cur- •• Enterprise repository for sharing information rent state of your enterprise as well as future across the organization states involving new solutions. •• Integration with SAP HANA®, SAP Business Process Management, SAP Business Suite, Objectives and SAP Information Steward software; the •• Capture all business requirements, design SAP Solution Manager application manage- information, and enterprise architectures ment solution; and business intelligence for the future and communicate graphically solutions. •• Visualize the links between all architectural layers to understand the impact of potential Benefits changes •• Document all components of your enterprise •• Improve collaboration between business for sound decision making and IT employees through intuitive visual- •• Find information for sound decision making ization and reporting •• Streamline collaboration and communication •• Leverage data as a strategic company asset •• Understand the cost and risk of potential to drive greater value and efficiency changes

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