Enterprise Architect
Overview
Enterprise Architect is a comprehensive modelling and design tool for model-based software and systems engineering (MBSE), enterprise architecture management (EAM) and data architecture. Enterprise Architect has been continuously developed by Sparx Systems for over 25 years and is used in various industries to create, manage and visualise complex systems.
It offers a wealth of features and functionalities that support software architects, system engineers, business analysts and other participants in their work.
Enterprise Architect is now used by 80% of the Fortune 100 companies and by more than one million users. In everyday use, Enterprise Architect is characterised in particular by its openness and connectivity to many other IT systems, which makes it much easier to integrate into an existing tool chain in companies.
Introduction
Enterprise Architect serves as a versatile platform for designing, documenting, analysing and communicating software systems and business processes. It supports over 80 modelling languages and notations, including Unified Modelling Language (UML), Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), Systems Modelling Language (SysML), ArchiMate and more. This flexibility allows users to create models that accurately represent different aspects of a system or process.
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Key Functions of Enterprise Architect
Modelling and Design
The beating heart of Enterprise Architect are its modelling and design capabilities. Users can create different types of diagrams and models to represent system structure, behaviour, requirements and more. These include class diagrams, sequence diagrams, state machine diagrams, use case diagrams and entity-relationship diagrams. The platform offers a variety of modelling elements and relationships to express complex concepts and dependencies.
Requirements Management
Enterprise Architect facilitates requirements management by allowing the user to capture, organise and track requirements throughout the development process. Requirements can be linked to other model elements such as use cases, components and test cases to ensure alignment between the system design and stakeholder requirements. In addition, the platform offers functions for managing requirement changes, versions and baselines. A further advantage of Enterprise Architect is that existing requirements systems from other manufacturers can be integrated via interfaces, thus enabling simple data exchange.
Generating Code
More advanced modellers can use Enterprise Architect to generate code from models. This allows the gap between design and implementation to be closed by automatically generating source code in various programming languages (Java, C#, C++, etc.). The templates for code generation can be customised to adhere to specific coding standards and best practices.
Simulation and Analysis
Enterprise Architect offers simulation and analysis functions for validating and verifying system designs. Users can simulate the behaviour of systems using various diagrams (state, activity and sequence). In addition, the tool offers integrated support for model validation, consistency checks and automated tests to detect errors and inconsistencies early on in the development process.
Collaboration and version control
Enterprise Architect supports collaboration between team members by providing features for simultaneous modelling, version control and team collaboration. Multiple users can work on the same models simultaneously, with changes seamlessly tracked and merged. Integration with version control systems such as Git, Subversion (SVN) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) ensures that model versions are managed effectively.
Documentation and traceability
A key argument in favour of using model-based development with Enterprise Architect is the fact that as the model evolves, documentation is created that is always up to date. Users can create customisable documentation templates to generate reports, specifications and user manuals directly from the model content. This ensures that the project documentation remains synchronised with the design and minimises the manual effort required for documentation tasks.
This also guarantees the traceability required by many standards and regulations, which ensures that prescribed requirements have actually been implemented in the developed system.
Integration with other tools
Enterprise Architect is an open modelling platform and is being deliberately developed with this in mind. This means that it can be seamlessly integrated into a wide range of development and project management tools that are commonly used in software development processes. This includes integration with IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) such as Visual Studio and Eclipse, issue tracking systems such as JIRA, collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Slack and more. This allows users to utilise existing tools and workflows within their development environments.
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Application areas for Enterprise Architect
Systems Engineering
Modeling and analysis of complex systems, including hardware-software systems, IoT devices and embedded systems
Enterprise Architecture Management
Creation of enterprise architecture models to align business strategy with IT systems and applications
Data Modelling
Design of database schemas, data models and data flows for effective management and analysis of company data
Software Development
Start Modelling
Our basic eLearning training ‘Start Modelling with Enterprise Architect’ offers you the perfect introduction to modelling. The training ends with a two-hour online Q&A session.
New Features of Enterprise Architect 17.1
Enterprise Architect 17.1 brings many new features to the popular and user-friendly modelling and design platform. It turns your models into a compass that supports your vision, the goals of your team and the development of your organisation.
So upgrade to version 17.1 now and stay up to date.
Data Warehouse Schemas
Database engineering support for data warehouse technologies
Support for Data Warehouse Dateabases:
- Amazon Redshift
- Azure Synapse
- Google BigQuery
- Snowflake
- Teradata
Profiles for creating schemas
UML profile contains stereotypes for each construct of the selected technology
Enterprise Data Warehousing
Concepts, elements and relationships that are common in data warehousing systems
Better understanding of data use in the company
Comprehensive projects are given tangible business and technological value through modelling
Perspectives, Patterns and Toolboxes
The data warehousing perspective shows only relevant views and models
The data warehousing patterns bring together templates and work examples for a quick start
Diagrams and toolboxes available for each design layer
Time-Aware Modelling
Baseline comparison: Compare packages with models on different platforms and maintain the consistency of your architectural elements
Improved package control: Manage model packages efficiently and accurately and get a comprehensive analysis of your architectural components
Window Timelines: Create snapshots of diagrams, packages and elements to capture key elements in architecture development
Diagram Smart Placements and Guides
Snap to multiple elements and element boundaries
Display of auxiliary lines
Maintaining the size
External Data Integration
Linking of folder hierarchies in third-party tools
Hyperlink to architectural elements or diagrams in Web EA
‘Synchronise external data’ window resolves conflicts if both external and local elements have changes
Model based perspective sets
User-defined perspectives directly from the diagram
User interface that meets your specific needs and is orientated towards your role and tasks
Perspectives that accelerate Application Portfolio Management (APM), Business Capability Modelling (BCM) and Technology Portfolio Management (TPM)
Profile Creation
Profile helper dialogue: Improved visibility of attributes and operations
Publication of UML profiles using unique profile IDs
MDG technology import: A new option ‘Import package as MDG technology’ is now available
Code Miner
Import complex data, logic and rules specific to your project
Full range of Code Miner MFQL queries and actions
Works with Javascript and the model add-ins
Office 2022 Visual Style
Office 2022 style is available in the start menu
Modern and sophisticated interface
Visually appealing and user-friendly presentation
Accessibility and standards
Advanced accessibility functions
Safe navigation through dialogue labels and controls with Windows Narrator
Tree or list control element is read out
Diagram creation by drag & drop
Simply drag classes, requirements or elements onto the connecting line
Drag triggers directly into the StateMachine diagram
Draw your diagrams simpler and more accurate with automated insertion
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