InternetApplications Division (IAD) 1 PowerDesigner7: Roadmap (Future Releases) Sybase, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential Marc Chanliau, Senior Product Manager Tel

InternetApplications Division (IAD) 2 Agenda Introduction (Code Names and Current Release) Future Releases PowerDesigner V PowerDesigner V 7.1 PowerDesigner Repository PowerDesigner V 7.2 Dolphin2 (PowerDesigner V 8) Note: The information contained in this presentation has no contractual value and is subject to change without notice

InternetApplications Division (IAD) 3 Introduction Code Names PowerDesigner 7.x.x: Dolphin1 PowerDesigner 8.x.x: Dolphin2 Current Release: PowerDesigner Available since November 1999 Emergency Bug Fix (EBF) is downloadable from

InternetApplications Division (IAD) 4 RoadMap V Maintenance Release V Availability: 12/1999 Features Import ProcessAnalyst V6.1.5 data flow diagram information into DataArchitect’s CDM Export DataArchitect models (CDM and PDM) to PowerDesigner V6.1.5 Viewer (Read-only PowerDesigner version)

InternetApplications Division (IAD) 5 Roadmap V 7.1 Point Release V 7.1 Availability: Early 2Q2000 Features SQL script recovery enhancements Move objects between packages Convert diagrams into packages Generate and recover PowerBuilder code from sru files directly Generate XML files from a class diagram Support multi-language reports Various diagramming features enhancements

InternetApplications Division (IAD) 6 Roadmap Repository Repository Release (not attached to a particular PowerDesigner release) Availability: Early 2Q2000 Features Same architecture as MetaWorks (Repository client hosted in PowerDesigner’s common shell) Support of ASA and other ODBC-compatible RDBMS for the repository’s persistence database Repository environment administration and management (access rights, etc.) Model consolidation into the repository’s database Model extraction from the repository’s database

InternetApplications Division (IAD) 7 Roadmap Repository (cont’d) Model versioning Version branch structures Comparison of model versions Find capability extended to multiple versions of the same model Configuration management (model configuration list) SQL Interpreter ( à la MetaWorks) Pre-defined repository database queries Repository report creation

InternetApplications Division (IAD) 8 Roadmap V 7.2 Point Release V 7.2 Availability: 3Q2000 Features Test Data Generation (PDM) Database size computation Attach stored procedures to a table Support for extended attributes Show Merge Model summary (and ability to print that summary) Generate class methods as stored procedures Java and PowerBuilder support enhancements (class diagramming)

InternetApplications Division (IAD) 9 Roadmap Dolphin2 Major Release V 8.0 Availability: In two phases (date TBD) Phase 1: Focus on Java (design and implementation of server-side components) EJB component generation Use Case ProcessAnalyst (bus. proc. engineering & workflow) Data Movement Phase 2: Beyond Java Sequence diagram Component diagram Deployment support (based on components) C++ and IDL support (tentative)

InternetApplications Division (IAD) 10 PowerDesigner7: Unifying Distributed Business Logic with Backend Databases