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PowerDesigner v16.5 SP04 includes new features for the Enterprise Architecture Model (EAM).

Programs, Projects, Goals, and Timelines

PowerDesigner now supports the modeling of EA initiatives in the form of programs and projects. These objects can be linked to corporate goals to show how they contribute to their fulfillment and to any other EAM object to show how they may impact them:

Your initiatives and goals can be displayed in any of the standard EAM diagrams and also in the new, calculated timeline diagrams, which show your initiatives on a timeline in the context of the objects with which they are connected:

Documented in:
  • Enterprise Architecture Modeling > Goal and EA Initiative Modeling
Composite Processes

EAM processes can now contain sub-processes and sub-process maps to support the construction of multi-level EAM process maps:

Documented in:
  • Enterprise Architecture Modeling > Process and Function Modeling > Processes (EAM)
Visualizing Role Associations

EAM role associations (which model connections between people, organization units, and roles, and various EA objects) can now be displayed in diagrams:

Documented in:
  • Enterprise Architecture Modeling > Organization Architecture Modeling > People (EAM) > Associating a Person, Organization Unit, or Role with an Object
New Example EA Model, Excel Imports, and Charts
To demonstrate these new features and the dynamic charts available in the new PowerDesigner Web repository Web client (see New Web Client: PowerDesigner Web), a rich new EAM example model is provided. The model also serves to present one possible set of choices for structuring your EA metadata in the flexible PowerDesigner EAM metamodel and can serve as a starting point for your own deliberations:

The example files supplied comprise:
  • A set of Excel files containing metadata to import.
  • The EAExample.eam model, which is built from these Excel imports and contains additional diagrams (which cannot be imported through Excel).
  • The EAExample.xem extension file, which contains dataset definitions to drive charts to analyze the metadata contained in the model.
  • The EAExample.db example repository, which can be used to view the model and its charts using the new PowerDesigner Web client.
Documented in:
  • Enterprise Architecture Modeling > Planning Your Enterprise Architecture Initiative > Example EA Model, Imports, and Charts