Next Steps

Now that you are familiar with the PowerDesigner Interface, you will want to start experimenting with a particular type of model suitable to your needs.

Requirements Model (RQM) - Now turn to the Requirements Modeling guide where you will learn how to:
- Add, modify, promote and demote requirements in the requirements hierarchy
- Allocate requirements to particular team members and add traceability links to other model components
- Import requirements from a structured MS Word document
- View traceability and user allocation reports
Enterprise Architecture Model (EAM) - Now turn to the Enterprise Architecture Modeling guide where you will learn how to:
- Create diagrams in the business, application, and technology layers
- Import Visio diagrams
- Export and Import objects to and from other models
Business Process Model (BPM) - Now turn to the Business Process Modeling guide where you will learn how to:
- Create Process Hierarchy, Business Process, Process Service, and Composite Process diagrams
- Manipulate Service Description Objects
- Generate an executable BPM, and implement processes
Conceptual Data Model (CDM), Logical Data Model (LDM), or Physical Data Model (PDM) - Now turn to the Data Modeling guide where you will learn how to:
- Create CDM entities and relationships between them
- Create LDM or PDM tables, columns, primary keys, indexes, and references and define referential integrity
- Create PDM views, triggers, and abstract data types
- Create business rules, domains, and data items
- Generate a PDM from your CDM or LDM
- Reverse engineer from and generate to database scripts
- Work with PDM multidimensional diagrams
Data Movement Model (DMM) - Now turn to the Data Movement Modeling guide where you will learn how to:
- Define databases, replication processes, event scripts, and other replication objects
- Reverse engineer from and generate to the Replication Server® replication engine
- Design extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations to move data between databases
Object-Oriented Model (OOM) - Now turn to the Object-Oriented Modeling guide where you will learn how to:
- Design class, use case, and other standard UML diagrams
- Generate a PDM with O/R mapping
- Create an EJB
- Deploy a component
XML Model (XSM) - Now turn to the XML Modeling guide where you will learn how to:
- Define elements, entities, and other components of an XML schema
- Reverse engineer from and generate to DTD, XSD, and XDR files
- Generate an XSM from a PDM or OOM