SAP PowerDesigner

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 »

My friend Dirk Lerner is speaking at the IRM UK data management conference this week (it has a longer title, but I’ll avoid using it today) on topics that are close to my heart, so I thought I’d share some related connections. Dirk has... Read More »

Over the years, clients have asked me to write a fair number of scripts for them, automating various metadata and modelling tasks in both Idera ER/Studio and SAP PowerDesigner. As you might expect, some of these scripts can get quite complicated,... Read More »

Last October I posted a link to the presentation that I gave at data Modelling Zone in Dusseldorf last year – it’s been uploaded to SlideShare, and several people have told me they’re not allowed to access SlideShare at work,... Read More »

I had real pleasure last month, showing people at Data Modelling Zone my favourite PowerDesigner features, all of which are not features of the major competition :). You can see the slide here... Read More »

PostgreSQL is a popular open source database platform, with a user base right around the world. By all accounts, data modelling is not very common in the world of PostgreSQL. In an effort to change that, I’ve written a blog post for 2nd... Read More »

I went to support.sap.com to get the new patch level (16.5.5 PL03) I heard about today, and discovered that Service Pack 06 was issued on April 27th 🙂

With the launch of the SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, cloud edition on the SAP Cloud Platform, we invite you to attend this first series of learning sessions covering the capabilities and features of this new software as a service(SaaS)... Read More »

Yesterday, I broadcast a webinar on the DAMA UK channel on Bright Talk. The webinar description was : “To be successful at Data Architecture, organisations have always needed to understand what data they have, why they have it, how they use it,... Read More »

In yesterday’s blog post, I described how to convert CamelCase object Codes into ‘Proper Case’ object Names, using a combination of GTL and VBScript in a model extension. This took advantage of the built-in conversion routines,... Read More »