"The rise of Enterprise Architecture is proof that organizations need to manage the impact of changes in competition, technology and regulations across their enterprise," said Dan Lahl, director of Intelligent Enterprise for Sybase. "PowerDesigner 15's unique Link and Synch technology provides organizations the ability to implement an enterprise architecture solution from start to finish, removing business and metadata silos and increasing business agility."

Sybase has announced the planned availability date of Sybase PowerDesigner 15, an all-in-one modeling and design solution for enterprises that need to build and streamline business processes. This new version of Sybase PowerDesigner provides enterprise architects, IT professionals and business managers with the ability to improve business and IT alignment through its Link and Synch technology. Sybase PowerDesigner 15 also increases the capability for impact analysis and provides greater visibility for all stakeholders independent of technical experience. PowerDesigner 15 is currently scheduled to be available on October 31.

In today's complex IT environments, enterprises are regularly challenged to closely align various IT elements - systems, data, applications and network - with business goals, processes and requirements. However, the knowledge of each of these elements is siloed. PowerDesigner 15 removes those silos, streamlining the enterprise's ability to respond to change. As a result, the enterprise becomes more agile, reflects the goals of multiple business units, and meets regulatory and compliance standards. "Agility is critical when dealing with business change, and as more businesses move to an Unwired Enterprise strategy by pushing information further out to the end user, technology that provides greater control over the underlying IT infrastructure becomes increasingly important," continued Dan Lahl.

Reducing overall costs and system redundancies, PowerDesigner 15 provides a powerful modeling and metadata management tool used to align IT and business goals for meeting regulatory compliance and migrating to modern architectures such as service-oriented architectures (SOA). PowerDesigner allows for easy analysis and impact measurement between the business "as-is" state and the "to-be" state allowing for accurate, predictable and reliable IT resource planning in line with business goals.