It offers a lot of features in one solution. You would have to get multiple other products to bundle together all of the capabilities that you get in just this product.
PowerDesigner and ER/Studio Consultancy and Training Specialist at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Jun 3, 2020
The most valuable feature is the way you can extend it and customize it. With most modeling tools, you fit your modeling process to fit the tool. In PowerDesigner, you can make the tool fit the way you want to work.
Senior Data Warehouse Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Dec 29, 2022
The most valuable features of the solution are it's built very well, easy to use, and simple to describe freely what is needed in logical and physical data models.
PowerDesigner and ER/Studio Consultancy and Training Specialist at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Jun 3, 2020
Pricing for small consultancies needs improvement. They sustain prices to competing tools. The competing tools tend to do special offers. PowerDesigner SAP doesn't pay much attention to the pricing of it and there are no special offers.
Senior Principal IT Architect -- MDM Architecture at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 30, 2020
Checking-in models to the repository, especially when working remotely, is a slow process than can sometimes have problems with models being corrupted.
In the future, I would like to see data manipulation capability where you can actually write SQL queries and manipulate data from directly within the tool.
Senior Data Warehouse Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Dec 29, 2022
SAP PowerDesigner could improve by making the repository easier to understand. It is difficult to understand how the repository works because when I used logical models as part of the team, we wanted to use them together and update the older versions of the data model version but it was confusing. The repository needs to be explained.
DWH, BI & Big Data consultant / developer /modeler - independent contractor at Freelancer
Dec 22, 2022
You have the possibility to complete a connection for abbreviations if you are creating columns or names of the tables. In the Citrix environment, this has been lagging to the point where the PowerDesigner was not usable.
