Aric Rosenbaum

To paraphrase a real-estate saying, the key to a quality software product is design, design, design. While simple, single-developer applications can often be designed on the back of an envelope, today's enterprise applications cannot. Users need to see their business process graphically modeled. DBAs require an entity-relationship diagram to review. And programmers need to know how it all fits together. The challenge facing a systems architect is how to develop a design that can be understood by three disparate groups: end users, programmers, and DBAs. Traditionally, this has meant using one tool for business process modeling, another for object modeling, and a third for database design. With the release of PowerDesigner 9, architects can now accomplish all of this with a single tool. In this three-part series, I will cover PowerDesigner and how it can be used to... (more)

PowerDesigner 9: A Review PART 1 OF 3

To paraphrase a real-estate saying, the key to a quality software product is design, design, design. While simple, single-developer applications can often be designed on the back of an envelope, today's enterprise applications cannot. Users need to see their business process graphically modeled. DBAs require an entity-relationship diagram to review. And programmers need to know how it all fits together. The challenge facing a systems architect is how to develop a design that can be understood by three disparate groups: end users, programmers, and DBAs. Traditionally, this has m... (more)