--- title: SAP PowerDesigner Reviews meta\_title: 'SAP PowerDesigner Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 12 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SAP PowerDesigner works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 12 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-04-02' parent\_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # SAP PowerDesigner Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by SAP PowerDesigner but has limited features. Are you part of the SAP PowerDesigner team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Plan and manage complex business transformation initiatives with SAP PowerDesigner. 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[Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/10/2021 "SAP PowerDesigner Is a most versatile enterprise data modeling tool" 3.5/5 What do you like best about SAP PowerDesigner? I have used this tool from Sybase PowerDesigner to SAP PowerDesigner for Data Modelling, Data Abstraction Layer code generation using VB scirpt and to design enterprise level middleware component such as com, dcom objects using Visual C++ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP PowerDesigner? SAP PowerDesigner license cost is expensive compare to open source data model tools available in market. This tool requires improvement on various cloud service integration.(AWS, Azure and other cloud services) . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP PowerDesigner: SAP PowerDesigner is good for setting up middle ware frame work code such as data abstraction and TIBCO data services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP PowerDesigner solving and how is that benefiting you? Using SAP PowerDesigner we have setup middle ware component and services to generated code for financial service applications, abstract data exchange to secure data from SQL Injection and improve performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/10/2023 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite GG Gabor G. managing director & principal consultant Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/9/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "THE data modelling tool" 5/5 What do you like best about SAP PowerDesigner? Ease of use, flexibility, support of all major database platforms, reporting features and most of all extendibility (with scripting and extensions). And the PowerDesigner Viewer for viewing models for free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP PowerDesigner? PD Portal: slow performance and handling of customizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP PowerDesigner: If you need a reliable enterprise-class modeling tool, look no further. But beware, PowerDesigner should be installed on Windows and the Portal version lacks some of its features. If you need online modeling, this isn't your tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP PowerDesigner solving and how is that benefiting you? Data warehouse modeling, ETL design, mapping Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sanjay S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sanjay S.") SS Sanjay S. Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/9/2021 "Excellent data modeling tool" 4/5 What do you like best about SAP PowerDesigner? User interface is easy to use. Lots of features that make modeling easy and maintenance is easy by using this tool. Liked the reporting capabilities on model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP PowerDesigner? Connection to repository takes time and also sometime it creates issue while check-in the local model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP PowerDesigner: It s one of the modeling tools that has all the required capabilities that we generally find in other popular modeling tool, plus it has more features that makes easy to use and add more information to model easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP PowerDesigner solving and how is that benefiting you? Data Modeling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") CB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/10/2021 "Old tool" 0/5 What do you like best about SAP PowerDesigner? the brand SAP. I'm not sure how the sales talks and lucky I wasn't invloved in the presale stage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP PowerDesigner? It's old, and it hasn't been sold in Taiwan this decade (server version). It may be powerful a decade ago. Stuff like reverse engineering on DDL and SQL generations seem too good to be true. Well, it just doesn't support the new technology database. If you ever need to draw DB design diagrams. Perhaps MS Visio or Excel drawing tool is good enough. There's no need to buy such an expensive too to do something so simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP PowerDesigner solving and how is that benefiting you? Data warehouse design with a Financial group. No benefits at all since it's only a document tool. Impact analysis!? Forget it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2021 "SAP" 4.5/5 What do you like best about SAP PowerDesigner? Its user-friendliness and roubtness. Very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP PowerDesigner? Nothing in particular. Would have liked if this is a time tested Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP PowerDesigner solving and how is that benefiting you? We use this for enterprise architecture and visualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/10/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Review" 4/5 What do you like best about SAP PowerDesigner? Connecting easily with other SAP applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP PowerDesigner? Overall look and feel . Need to search icons till you are comfortabke with the screen Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP PowerDesigner solving and how is that benefiting you? Basic applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") CB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/14/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "An Enterprise Level Data Modelling Tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about SAP PowerDesigner? 1. Full support for data modelling, data lineage, data governance; 2. Integration with third party databases and sql; 3. Robust support for forward-engineer and backward-enginner; 4. Support for data integration design; 5. Advance customizable reporting capability; 6. Excellent source control and release management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP PowerDesigner? 1. The UI for data lineage still can be enhanced; 2. Capability to generate end to end query; Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP PowerDesigner: Regarding enterprise level data modelling, I believe PowerDesigner is obvious the Top one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP PowerDesigner solving and how is that benefiting you? We used Power Designer in our data warehouse project to migrate from SAS to Hadoop. Power Designer provided huge benefit on the metadata design, data modelling and data lineage. We also used power designer to generate customized model related reports. We are really happy about the robust data modelling and forward-engineer capability of Power Designer. We had about 4 major designers and one architect to support modelling of different LOB with multiple phases covering concept modelling, logical modelling and physical modelling. Power Designer really handled the work pretty cool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic SB Sneha Rachel Rao B. Business Process Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/26/2019 "It is a very flexible and convenient tool to use" 5/5 What do you like best about SAP PowerDesigner? I create Data flow Models using Power Designer. I like how easy it is to create process flows. the choice of symbols are good. I can create 100's of models at one time. I like how it can save all the models to repository Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP PowerDesigner? Sometimes if its a large process flow it loads the diagram slowly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP PowerDesigner solving and how is that benefiting you? I create data flow models , I review them and i have realized it is a easier tool to create the process flows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Design](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Design") AD Verified User in Design Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/21/2019 "Bedrock stable digital structure and model management " 4.5/5 What do you like best about SAP PowerDesigner? The synchronization and modeling tools for data are powerful and intuitive. It streamlines data vitalization and allows for customized mapping of information structures. Another high point of the product is it is a scalable solution. Overall, it has Improved the ability to collaborate on data modelling across our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP PowerDesigner? It is unfortunate that we have to view costs of tools such as these are a negative rather than an important empowerment, but C level executives have balked a the pricing. Also, it may be too complex for some users and should be considered only if the needs of the business require it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP PowerDesigner: I hesitate to recommend this solution only because of the cost and complexity, if you have the skilled user base and the support of the upper management, this can be a great asset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP PowerDesigner solving and how is that benefiting you? We used this for tracing the effect of metadata models, permitting us to more effectively plan for future sales and forecast trends. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Andreina M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Andreina M.") AM Andreina M. Psicologo Clinico y Neuropsicologo Utilities Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/27/2018 "achieve a solid digital structure for your company" 5/5 What do you like best about SAP PowerDesigner? What I like about this tool is that it can help very strong information structures, visualize the potential impact of new technologies before applying them to the people inside the company, we can also take advantage of the best synchronization and modeling tools of data that help to understand the new technologies, it guarantees the simplification of how you will see the boards of visits in the eb, has the wonder idea of making mappings of how you want the information to be structured Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SAP PowerDesigner? 459/5000 I have nothing to highlight negatively of this application, it is really very good and it would help me to improve the information in my office and to administer the histories of my patients in the case that it applies to my psychological consultation, at the support level it is well-built, it is of easy comprehension, suddenly in the part of the installation with a little help and I know that the support area will come into play, but it is not something that can not be solved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SAP PowerDesigner: I personally recommend it since ls allows its users to optimize the synchronization of the data. in a fast and safe way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SAP PowerDesigner solving and how is that benefiting you? What I like about this application is that it allows us to better organize digital strategies, since we will have absolute security of how the impact and scope of the strategy proposed by the company will be, as well as to test new technologies of information and digital marketing. , and be sure whether you will have the required success or not Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/15/2018 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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