Simplify Complex Architectures and See the Potential Impact of New Technologies

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1 SAP Brief SAP Technology SAP PowerDesigner Objectives Simplify Complex Architectures and See the Potential Impact of New Technologies

2 Empower data, information, and enterprise architects Empower data, information, and enterprise architects As IT landscapes grow more complex, a visual representation of your 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 make it more important for IT organizations to understand their existing architecture before implementing transformative technologies that must integrate with legacy systems. SAP PowerDesigner software helps you document your current technology and manage change to your enterprise by providing a simplified visualization of complex architectural components that makes them more understandable and accessible. Robust tools support a model-driven architecture design using industry-standard techniques, a powerful metadata repository, and unique link-and-sync technology. By letting you provide more complete, accurate, and reliable information about your enterprise architecture, the software helps you: Maximize operational efficiencies for smoother business processes Improve business strategies through better and smarter decisions Meet internal and external compliance regulations to reduce risk Make the most of SAP and non-sap technology 2 / 9

3 SAP PowerDesigner is an architecturemodeling tool for business. The tool of choice for enterprise architecture and business process management, it offers intuitive support for visualization and reporting that can improve data access and use. Capture your : SAP PowerDesigner offers multiple, integrated models to document existing systems visually and help you understand how business and technical environments interact. There are many options for reading in and aligning metadata already in your enterprise. Design architectural changes: SAP PowerDesigner can also help you design systems for future business strategies and goals. Tools for design-time change management can streamline the changes. Link-and-sync technology helps you integrate business and technical aspects of change across your enterprise. Full lifecycle version management helps you act quickly on each step while retaining control. Communicate the impact of change: SAP PowerDesigner fosters decision consensus on change alternatives with a full impact analysis, from designing new architecture through to its execution. Stakeholders can collaborate more effectively using an enterprise repository through which they share metadata representing all layers of abstraction and publish all architecture knowledge in a secure, scalable environment. 3 / 9

4 SAP PowerDesigner offers robust support for the following core areas: Enterprise architecture Collaborative business process modeling Intelligent business operations Business intelligence and information architecture Data modeling and data architecture Enterprise architecture: SAP PowerDesigner addresses the decision-making needs of each distinct business area of an organization, providing the specific information each area needs in the language it recognizes. The 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 automatically 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. ADDING GROWTH AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION TELENOR SVERIGE AB Telenor Sverige AB, the Swedish mobile operations unit of telecommunications giant Telenor Group, implemented SAP PowerDesigner software for a clearer picture of its enterprise architecture and the potential impact of changes to that architecture. The new architecture repository helps Telenor maintain a single, dependable source for all company information. The repository has enhanced communication and understanding between IT and business managers and helped the enterprise streamline new development. Enterprise artifacts can be easily identified and reused, further increasing efficiency. Continued on next page 4 / 9

5 Collaborative business-process modeling: SAP PowerDesigner helps decision makers see interconnections between architectural elements and know which parts of the business will be affected if the architecture changes. You can design proposed changes and represent them visually, conforming to the ways managers are used to seeing information, for a clear impact analysis that helps them understand and buy in to the changes. SAP PowerDesigner reduces complexity by abstracting relationships between people, systems, and objects and representing the relationships visually in preferred formats. A central enterprise glossary helps ensure that business terms and definitions are established and consistently managed throughout the organization. Intelligent business operations: Integration with SAP Business Process Management software and the SAP HANA platform helps SAP PowerDesigner streamline the planning, design, and communication of businessprocess definitions. You can capture current processes in normal business terms to drive new designs for process management. Stored in a central repository, the models of information architecture that you create support a consistent understanding of business-process definitions. Keeping process communication clear helps establish a single, accurate view of company information. Continued on next page 5 / 9

6 Business intelligence and information architecture: The robust modeling functionality in SAP PowerDesigner helps you streamline communication and collaboration between business and IT as you improve the productivity of your development team. It provides support for open software environments and helps enforce corporate or regulatory standards and practices through a fully scriptable interface, a customizable metamodel, and a fully documented application programming interface. HELPING EMPLOYEES FIND THE DATA THEY NEED MEDTRONIC INC. Medtronic Inc., a global player in medical technology, implemented SAP PowerDesigner software to make it easier for employees to access company data. Using the software, Medtronic created a comprehensive and centralized enterprise data model and made it available globally. Employees can now readily locate and access the information they need, and data architects can focus on developing business intelligence. 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. Continued on next page 6 / 9

7 Data modeling and data architecture: SAP PowerDesigner supports more than 80 relational database management systems. It helps cross-functional teams visualize, analyze, and manipulate metadata for effective database design and implementation of data architecture. It combines powerful tools for impact analysis, traceability of requirements, and information mapping with formal database design techniques. It supports multiple types of modeling for full metadata integration. IMPROVING PROFITABILITY AND CUSTOMER SERVICE MOZZART A leader in sports betting in the western Balkans, Mozzart implemented SAP PowerDesigner and SAP IQ software to analyze the profitability of 50,000 daily betting games. The company can now review game performance in real time and adjust odds to improve profitability and the customer experience. SAP PowerDesigner helped Mozzart efficiently build the data warehouse for SAP IQ and makes it easier to add 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. 7 / 9

8 Visualize, understand, and manage enterprise change Visualize, understand, and manage enterprise change SAP PowerDesigner can break down silos of data and create a 360-degree view of your information assets that streamlines collaboration and communication. The software helps you understand and reduce the cost and risk of proposed changes throughout your organization and integrate systemwide viewpoints and perspectives to improve decision making. You can use the common view of your current architecture created by SAP PowerDesigner to create an environment that facilitates ongoing quality assurance and streamlines integration among architectural components. The software minimizes manual processing through automation and synchronization and aligns business, information, and technology views without additional effort or process change. It captures dependencies at the time of discovery and allows for easy bridging among all sources of metadata to create an aligned and integrated modeling source for change management and business planning. SAP PowerDesigner can consume and centralize models from a vast number of sources to give you a true command center for managing information as a corporate asset. By helping ensure that your enterprise maintains the highest degree of integrity, the software can increase user trust as you meet today s challenges and plan for the future. 8 / 9

9 Objectives Summary SAP PowerDesigner software helps organizations plan and manage complex business initiatives. The software s integrated modeling tools, with link-and-sync technology, enable you to visualize the current state of your enterprise as well as future states involving new solutions. Objectives Capture all business requirements, design information, and enterprise architectures for the future and communicate graphically Visualize the links between all architectural layers to understand the impact of potential changes Improve collaboration between business and IT employees through intuitive visualization and reporting Leverage data as a strategic company asset to drive greater value and efficiency Robust modeling of business, information, application, and technology architectures Automatic capture of enterprise architecture layers Enterprise repository for sharing information across the organization Integration with SAP HANA, SAP Business Process Management, SAP Business Suite, and SAP Information Steward software; the SAP Manager application management solution; and business intelligence solutions. Document all components of your enterprise for sound decision making Find information for sound decision making Streamline collaboration and communication Understand the cost and risk of potential changes Learn more To find out more, call your SAP representative today or visit us online at 9 / 9 Studio SAP 31114enUS (14/07)

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