Importing to and Generating and Exporting from an EAM

PowerDesigner provides various tools to import to and generate and export from your EAM.

• Importing Visio Diagrams into PowerDesigner
  Importing your Visio diagrams into PowerDesigner's rich metadata environment enables you to link your architectural objects with the objects that will implement them, and to profit from PowerDesigner's powerful impact and lineage analysis features. You must have installed Visio 2002 or higher and have selected to install the Visio plug-in from the PowerDesigner installer.
• Exporting and Importing Objects to and from Other Models
  An enterprise architecture model is intended to provide a big picture view of your organization and to permit you to decompose your functions, processes, and systems to a certain extent, but it cannot show detailed information about how they are (or will be) implemented. In order to model such information, you will want to use other PowerDesigner models, such as the conceptual, logical, physical data models, business process models, or object-oriented models.
• Generating an EAM from an EAM
  You can generate another EAM from your EAM. When changes are made to the source model, they can be easily propagated to any generated models by regenerating, using the Update Existing Model generation mode.