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Offering One Of The
Industry's Most Collaborative Modeling Solutions With Cutting-Edge Data
and UML Modeling Functionality
SYNOPSIS:
Sybase, Inc. is making available its newest design tool, PowerDesigner®
8.0. Features of this innovative database-modeling tool include:
- A common framework for
data- and object-oriented modeling with enhanced UML that meets
the needs of analysts, designers, database developers, application
developers and administrators.
- Strengthened team
collaboration through an enhanced repository, which can help
reduce the time and cost of distributed application development.
- Increased optimization
of investment in relational databases and application servers.
EMERYVILLE, CA -- March 7, 2001 -- Sybase,
Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBS) today announced the general availability of Sybase®
PowerDesigner® 8.0, one of the most user-friendly design tools for
enterprise-level-use available today. PowerDesigner 8.0 provides a
highly-productive environment for data modeling, Unified Modeling
Language (UML) modeling and enterprise-class repository capabilities.
PowerDesigner 8.0
helps organizations rapidly adapt e-Business systems and applications
to the changing demands of today's competitive business environment.
This new version of PowerDesigner is the only known product currently
available that allows effective collaboration between analysts,
designers, database and application developers, and administrators. Its
enterprise-class repository and tight integration between data and UML
models enables design-team members to collaborate throughout the phases
of development: From outlining business requirements to the completion
of the final application.
PowerDesigner 8.0
also aids in reducing the time and cost of distributed application
development and helps optimize a company's investment in relational
databases and application servers.
"PowerDesigner
8.0 establishes a common framework for both data- and UML-based
object-modeling, industry-standard techniques," said Dimitri
Volkmann, Sybase's worldwide product marketing manager for
PowerDesigner. "Users may have a strong competitive advantage
while developing their e-Business systems, as PowerDesigner 8.0 is
currently the only tool providing such collaborative capabilities."
"As e-Business
accelerates development cycles, development teams require tools that
offer increased collaboration capabilities for all project
stakeholders," said Kathy Quirk, an analyst with the Application
Strategies Service at the Hurwitz Group. "PowerDesigner 8.0
provides team members with a unified environment, and with project
visibility tailored to their project role, enabling changes to be
implemented intelligently and effectively."
PowerDesigner
8.0 Feature Overview
PowerDesigner is an easy-to-use, highly intuitive, graphical design
tool. It enables analysts, designers, developers, and system managers
to improve productivity throughout the development cycle, from analysis
and design through database schema generation and business object
generation. PowerDesigner 8.0 offers:
- A state-of-the-art
easy-to-use interface.
- Flexible architecture
that integrates multiple modeling techniques:
- Comprehensive UML modeling capabilities (Use Case, Sequence and
Class Diagrams).
- Entity/relationship modeling.
- The ability to generate
and reverse engineer Java™ technology, PowerBuilder® and XML.
- Application, business
logic and persistence design using the UML class diagram.
- Database structures
generation and reverse engineering for major relational databases.
With the new
MetaWorks™ repository option, PowerDesigner 8.0 also features:
- A centralized, robust,
enterprise-class repository, able to be stored in most popular
ODBC-compliant relational databases.
- Enhanced inter-model
links management.
- The ability to define
permissions and access rights for users and groups.
- A consolidation and
extraction mechanism to detect and manage conflicts.
- Versioning and
configuration management.
Availability
PowerDesigner 8.0 will be available in the next 30 days. Pricing is
available by contacting Sybase at 1-800-8SYBASE. More information on
PowerDesigner 8.0 can be found at http://www.sybase.com.
About Sybase,
Inc.
Sybase provides enterprise-class software solutions that fuel
e-Business and enable access to information anytime, anyplace. With its
industry-leading Enterprise Portal (EP), mobile and wireless, and
vertical-market solutions, Sybase is one of the largest global
independent software companies in the world. For more information,
visit the Sybase Web site: www.sybase.com.
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Special Note:
Statements concerning Sybase's future business relationships, product
strategies, market prospects and similar matters are by nature
forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and
risks and cannot be guaranteed. Such statements are intended to reflect
Sybase's current views and may ultimately prove to be incorrect or
false. Some of the risks are detailed from time to time in Sybase's
Securities and Exchange Commission Filings, including but not limited
to its annual report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form
10-Q (copies of which can be viewed on Sybase's web site.)
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