A data modeling platform to meet modern needs

Easy transition
to the modern successor
of SAP Sybase PowerDesigner

Power Designer is being phased out, it’s time to pick the future proof and modernized predecessor that makes data modelling effective and collaborative

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Why transition now?

For decades, SAP Sybase PowerDesigner has served as the backbone for capturing and managing your organization’s data knowledge, building a substantial foundation of intellectual capital. Through customizations, deliberate integration of terms and ontologies, and individual refinements, you have adapted it to your unique needs within the possibilities it offered.

However, with the product roadmap coming to an end in 2027, SAP has made it clear that it does not intend to support your future data modeling requirements. This means that PowerDesigner can no longer serve as a sustainable part of your data modeling strategy moving forward.

Transition to a new platform is no longer optional but is essential for continuation of your data modelling activities and to safeguard your intellectual capital.

Why Unifye is the ideal successor to SAP Sybase PowerDesigner?

From desktop client software to modern web-based platform
From 15 minutes start-up time loading models to instant accessibility
From manual version management to git-like supported versioning
From individual isolated desktop work to collaborative design in domain teams
Use data contracts as a bridge to data-automation

Unifye for whom?

Data Architects: Break down the complex data landscape into manageable domain
Data Modellers: No more worries on version management and dependencies to other models
Data Product Owners: Grip on all artefacts with a single platform that addresses semantic interoperability

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How does Unifye relate to SAP Sybase PowerDesigner?

SAP Sybase PowerDesigner

Conceptual Model

Logical Data Model

Physical Data Model

Data Domains

Diagrams

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Repository (optional usage)

Customisations to extend possibilities to add extra information to Entities or Data Domains

Search options within the models opened

Import and Generation assistant

Multiple ways to capture data modelling artefacts both visual, lists, multiple sub-screens or own customisations

Unifye

Abstract Enities

Concrete entities
Derived entities
Template entities

Generated

Value Types

Diagrams

Sketches

Built-in version management

Add your own annotations

Catalogue

AI Assistant

Enter human and machine-readable declarative text and verify / communicate by means of diagrams

Rationale

With Abstract Entities and abstract relations you define Ontology

Logical Abstraction

of data that is exchanged
of data that is derived from other Entities
of a reusable pattern (e.g. reference data)

Unifye focus on the logical abstraction to capture enough metadata to generate the physical representation

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Visualize (part of) the domain schema

Support alignment how to design domain schema by means of sketching options / ideas

Use Git-like features as a stepping stone

to new release of domain schema
to new versions of underlying entity types
to manage lifecycle of versions separately

On top of the SKOS compliant annotation options you can define your own

Extensive search options to learn and leverage of existing metadata knowledge base

Assistance in converting your ideas into solid modelling artefacts by means of LLM that “translates” your ideas into concrete Unfiye artefacts (on the roadmap)

And effectively leverage auto-completion, suggestions, real-time checks