Enterprise Architect

What is Enterprise Architect?

Enterprise Architect is a visual platform for designing and constructing software systems, for business process modeling, and for more generalized modeling purposes.

Enterprise Architect is based on the latest UML® 2.5 specification (see www.omg.org). UML defines a visual language that is used to model a particular domain or system (either proposed or existing).

Enterprise Architect is a progressive tool that covers all aspects of the development cycle, providing full traceability from the initial design phase through to deployment, maintenance, testing and change control.

Integrated Modeling Tool

Full life cycle modeling for:

Business and IT systems
Software and Systems Engineering
Real-time and embedded development

With built-in requirements management capabilities, Enterprise Architect helps you trace high-level specifications to analysis, design, implementation, test and maintenance models using UML, SysML, BPMN and other open standards.

Build robust and maintainable systems

Enterprise Architect is a multi-user, graphical tool designed to help your teams build robust and maintainable systems. And using high quality, built-in reporting and documentation, you can deliver a truly shared vision easily and accurately!

Model and Manage Complex Information

Enterprise Architect helps individuals, groups and large organizations model and manage complex information. By integrating and connecting a wide range of structural and behavioral information in visual form, you can build a coherent, verifiable model of what-is or what-will-be.

Tools built into Enterprise Architect that help you manage complexity include:

Diagrams for modeling strategic and business level concepts
Domain-specific profiles and reusable model patterns
Baseline and version management for tracking and integrating changes
Role-based security to help the right people contribute in the right way

Model Driven Architecture

Enterprise Architect supports advanced Model Driven Architecture (MDA) transformations using easy to edit transform templates.

Platform independent to platform specific

You can quickly develop detailed solutions from abstract models. A single platform independent model (PIM) can drive generation of multiple platform-specific target solutions – providing a significant productivity boost!

With built-in transformations for:

C#
DDL
EJB
Java
JUnit
NUnit
WSDL
XSD

Business Process Modeling

There are many approaches to Business Process Modeling (BPM) using UML as the base modeling language.

In particular, Activity diagrams, Object Diagrams and custom Profiles provide powerful modeling approaches for Business Analysts.

Enterprise Architect complements UML 2.5 with BPMN support and extension elements for analysis, requirements management and process management (such as change, feature and issue elements).

Enterprise Architect’s Business Process Modeling capabilities let you:

Visualize business process with a UML profile for BPMN
Generate executable BPEL scripts from BPMN models
Validate the correctness of BPMN models

Capture and Trace Formal Requirements

Use impact analysis to trace proposed changes to original requirements. Build the right system.

Enterprise Architect’s built-in requirements management features can be used to:

Define an organized, hierarchical requirements model
Trace the implementation of system requirements to model elements
Search and report on requirements
Perform impact analysis of proposed changes to requirements

From Model to Source Code

The built-in source code editor lets you quickly navigate from model directly to source code in the same environment. Code generation templates let you customize generated source code according to your company specifications.

Enterprise Architect supports generation and reverse engineering of source code for many popular languages, including:

ActionScript
Ada
C and C++
C#
Java
Delphi
Verilog
PHP
VHDL
Python
System C
VB.Net
Visual Basic
and more…

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