PowerDesigner
04 Sep 1997
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ProcessAnalyst |
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To forestall any confusion,
let me repeat: ProcessAnalyst
is one and only one thing - a data
flow diagramming tool. It is a really good one -
fast, simple, clear, and flexible - with the original
flavor of PowerDesigner five years
ago. Perhaps this module represents what we can expect of
the whole PowerDesigner product
line in the future since ProcessAnalyst
is the only part of the tool family written in new C++
with MFC rather than six or eight year old C. If you know and use data flow diagrams you'll find next to nothing to learn about ProcessAnalyst. It's just that simple. Use Gane & Sarson, Yourdan / DeMarco, SSADM, or defunct OMT functional model representations. Nest diagram levels to your heart's content. Define every data item loosely or completely and then export them into DataArchitect as the root of a conceptual data model. Even here, feature accretion has clouded a clear vision. The CRUD matrix is, in our opinion, of limited or no use. Download crud.rtf (211KB) if you want to know more. If you don't know data flow diagrams, ProcessAnalyst will not teach you. The documentation, like all the PowerDesigner manuals, is devoted to how to do things. Little space is given to what to do or why. Whatever you do, don't expect process modeling, whether classic decomposition from structured methods or object oriented approaches. It's not here. Nor, as far as we know, is it planned. |
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PowerDesigner Review | |||||||||
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PowerDesigner Users' Resources for many links and documents | |||||||||
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