Getting Started

PowerDesigner® is a tool for creating and manipulating ESP schema. Optionally, it can be used with physical data models.

This guide is intended for database and application development staff, and for SAP Professional Services representatives, customer IT support, and other technical personnel who set up and administer PowerDesigner. It includes information you need to understand, model, and modify logical schema definitions and physical database structure when developing schema.

• Data Modeling Scenarios
  Integrated modeling supports efficient schema definition and database design, and consistent production deployments.
• Sample PowerDesigner Project
  A sample project supports integrated modeling.
• Learning More About PowerDesigner
  This guide tells you how to use PowerDesigner in ESP.