SAP PowerDesigner

March is upon us, winter is coming to an end, and PowerDesigner 16.6 is now available!  But before you go rushing out to download your copy to be the first customer to test it out, please take a few minutes to read through this official release... Read More »

If you have a great database schema, it is always good to promote it with a spectacular poster-sized ER diagram. I am part of the older crowd where, perhaps, having a working system is not the last step unless everyone knows you’ve put intense... Read More »

Motivation Sometimes, Its like so What if .. I ‘ve got this data here. What can I do with it. – Perhaps a legacy model, some technical data, some business data. The application is running since a while and well used. But the maintenance... Read More »

  Schedule an Expert gives you a new way to connect with SAP Support in a live, one-on-one 30-minute call. Talk to the same engineers that you’d file an incident with, but spend less time waiting for a response and resolution. Similar to... Read More »

A number of weeks ago I was discussing on Twitter if anyone knew of ways to create a BusinessObjects universe directly from metadata. Tammy Powlas kindly directed me to Sybase PowerDesigner as an example but as neither of us used it in our... Read More »

I have engaged with a number of customers recently starting out with PowerDesigner. In more than one case the customer acquired PowerDesigner as part of a larger solution such a Data Services Enterprise Edition or Intelligent Business Operations.... Read More »

Introduction to Functions and Capabilities of SYSAM License Manager What I would  like discuss in this blog post today is the license daemon controlling and distributing the licenses to all SAP PowerDesigner users. The license manager SYSAM  comes... Read More »

We can use programming language C#, C++ ,Visual Basic and JAVA to automate PowerDesigner. But these languages are very complicated. It may take a professional programmer days or weeks to get job down. In addition, we have to install Microsoft... Read More »

An intelligent enterprise needs a trusted data foundation to be able to run their critical operational and analytical systems and drive better outcomes. The practice of metadata management — describing, cataloging, and understanding all the data... Read More »

This is the start of what should be a four-part blog series around the new BusinessObjects (BOBJ) licensing offering. As a technologist and nerd at heart, I do my best to stay away from the licensing discussion, but I felt the new bundles are so... Read More »