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PowerDesigner v16.5 SP03 includes new support for SAP platform solutions.

Note If your license entitles you to SAP platform integration features and you are upgrading from v16.5 SP02 or earlier, you should regenerate your PowerDesigner license keys at SAP Service Marketplace (SMP) at https://support.sap.com/licensekeyInformation published on SAP site to ensure that you have access to new features in this version.
SAP Business Suite Import and Generation to HANA Enhancements

The SAP® Business Suite import wizard now supports searching the application component and package hierarchy for tables and views to import. The generation of the HANA table structure now supports the suppression of empty packages to simplify the structure for export.

PowerDesigner supports importing any recent version of SAP® Business Suite.

Documented in:
  • Data Modeling > DBMS Definition Reference > SAP Business Suite
SAP BusinessObjects Enhancements

PowerDesigner now supports reverse-engineering of universes in addition to the existing generation to provide a full round-trip solution.

To generate universes, you must have SAP® BusinessObjects™ SBOP BI Platform Clients 4.0 SP04 Patch 3 (v14.0.4.819) or higher installed on your workstation. On Windows Vista or Windows 7 machines, if PowerDesigner fails to recognize a valid BusinessObjects installation, it may be necessary separately to launch the Universe Design tool one time with administrator privileges to enable the BusinessObjects SDK.

To reverse-engineer universes, you must have SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence platform 4.1 Support Package 2 Client Tools or higher installed on your workstation, and you must have selected to install the SAP BusinessObjects Semantic Layer Java SDK.

Documented in:
  • Data Modeling > Building Data Models > Generating and Reverse-Engineering Databases