PowerDesigner OLAIS

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PowerDesigner in your Systems Architecture

Review your Mission, Scope, and Requirements

The Overview

• The Modules of PowerDesigner
• Building the Relational Roots
• Why Relational?
• What is a model?
• Sources for a Data Model

Developers' Intro to Process Analyst

Documenting Business rules in DataArchitect

• See also the AIS white paper on Business Rules in PowerDesigner

ER Diagramming in the Conceptual Data Model (CDM)

• Defining the Entity-Relationship Diagram
• Basic tool palette icons
• Creating entities
• Drawing and defining simple relationships
• Defining "cardinality"
• Relationship types
• Conceptual versus Logical modeling
• Manipulating graphic objects
• Accessing graphic objects
• Attaching business rules to modeled objects

Evolving the conceptual model

• Reconnecting relationships
• Defining roles through relationships
• Create a many to many relationship
• Reflexive relationships - one-to-many, many-to-many

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