IBM Blueworks Live vs. SAP PowerDesigner

I can say it is not only good but it is best Automation tool ever. Its streamline our business project and with web based solution it allows my team to document existing or new processes using process mapping capabilities. It provides powerful analytics and it is easy to use via online. I personally feel it is very intutive. For less Appropriate I can say only in terms of integration perspective with different CRM tools. Rest is all good!!!!

Incentivized

SAP PowerDesigner allows our team of data modelers to work and collaborate from a single repository and single data dictionary. This helps enforce consistency as data elements are referenced in other objects. Prior to our use of PD, we might have an element named "ppt" in one table, "participant" in another table and "part" in a third table. By forcing everything to be used from the data dictionary, we avoid these situations because everyone has to go to the dictionary. And we are able to easily do peer reviews on models before they are released because we are collaborating through the use of the repository.

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• Easy to create process diagrams quickly, while collaborating with others.
• Create linkages to sub-processes and other workflows.
• Track activities using metadata such as which IT systems are utilized.
• Use the glossary terms to find where different roles or systems are involved in processes throughout your org.

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• Impact Analysis
• The domain structure helps you to handle different data types to unify.
• Moving between from conceptual model to logical model and from logical model to physical model is so easy.
• It also excels at implementation of database vendor-specific physical options.
• The repository structure helps you to use in multi developer and architect based organizations by the check in and check out mechanism.
• It also has a fully configurable naming convention implementation.
• Coloring is simple with format copying and pasting option.

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• In particular, we have had problems with the availability of the service because the platform frequently crashed.
• Is not easy to pull some indicators.
• We would like to be able to see a different interface, long ago with the same.
• Payment process is not easy.

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• It took some time to figure out how to leverage the power of the repository. Some better examples in the documentation would have been helpful.

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I have gotten great response for the very few times I needed support.

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We did have to reach out to support to learn how to properly utilize the repository feature and share the data model across many developers. Support was able to help us get this set up correctly. The downside was it took us several weeks before we gave up and contacted support. We should have done that earlier. I would say, however, the documentation wasn't clear on how to do this. So support was a great big help!

Incentivized

Blueworks Live was part of a project deal. We did not keep it after the project. We found there are many solutions offering similar or superior capabilities - the fact that Blueworks does not fully support the universal BPMN standard was a big letdown for us. The pricing also did not make sense as a standalone solution.

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Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler : Unfortunately this tool only supports Oracle Databases as a target database, but has many features similar to SAP Sybase PowerDesigner. erwin Data Modeler: Has some issues when switching from Conceptual Model to Physical Model, Impact Analysis, and formatting copy and pasting. Vertabelo: Only supports online models and from a governance perspective, it is impossible for me to connect my target database with an online application because of company policy and regulation requirements.

Incentivized

• Made real time collaberation easier. Overall saving us valueable time.
• Excellent version control. Saving us time and helping us avoid mistakes / inaccuranies from using out of date documents.
• Simple and Ease to use from a web broswer reducing the need for extra servers to store the data.

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• Standardization of models
• Impact Analysis
• Graphical User Interface
• Ease of deployment

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