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