High Value, End-To-End Modeling

Enterprise Architect provides 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.

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!

Business Simulation

Bring your models to life using dynamic model simulation.

Verify the correctness of your behavioral models and gain a better understanding of how a business system works.

Use triggers such as pressing a button, flicking a switch or receiving a message to control the execution of your simulations.

Enterprise Architect can also control the flow of your simulation using Guards and Effects written in JavaScript.

Guards determine which path will be taken next based on criteria such as when a valid password is entered.

Take control of your simulations by using Effects to manipulate variables and perform calculations at specific times during a simulation.

Experiment with different choices and make changes to your simulation in a risk averse environment.

By controlling the speed of a simulation, you can slow a system down to observe previously unseen steps.

Use breakpoints to analyze decision making and improve business outcomes.

Simulation can help to improve communication, convey essential business ideas and reduce complexity.

Model, Manage and Trace Requirements

Capture and trace formal requirements to design, build, deployment and beyond.

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

Powerful Document Generation

Enterprise Architect provides powerful document generation and reporting tools with a full WYSIWYG template editor.

Generate detailed reports with the information you need in the format your company or client demands!

At the click of a button automatically produce HTML versions of your model for easy distribution over the Internet or your organization's intranet.

Visualize your Applications

Enterprise Architect helps you visualize your applications by supporting reverse engineering of a wide range of software development languages and database repository schema.

Bring in complete frameworks and legacy systems from source code, jar files or even .Net binary assemblies!

By importing frameworks and library code, you can maximize re-use and understanding of your existing investment.

Debugging, Compiling and Visualizing Executing Code

Enterprise Architect enables you to build, test, debug, run and execute deployment scripts, all from within the Enterprise Architect development environment.

With the ability to generate NUnit and JUnit test classes from source classes using MDA Transformations and integrate the test process directly into the Enterprise Architect IDE, you can now integrate UML and modeling into the build/test/execute/deploy process.

In addition to build/test and execute functionality, Enterprise Architect includes debugging capabilities for Java, .NET and Microsoft Native (C++, C and VB).

The debuggers built into Enterprise Architect are specifically designed to enable a developer or tester to capture stack trace information as they 'walk through' the executing code, performing runtime inspection of suspended threads.

They can then use the final stack trace history to generate Sequence diagrams within Enterprise Architect, converting the actual code execution and calls into visual diagrams.

Powerful Database Modeling

Enterprise Architect’s built-in Data Modeling profile extends UML to provide an intuitive mapping from the database concepts of tables and relationships onto the UML concepts of classes and associations.

These extensions also enable you to model database keys, triggers, constraints, RI and other relational database features.

Enterprise Architect supports modeling of database schema and automatic generation of DDL scripts for eleven DBMS targets out-of-the-box:

• DB2
• InterBase
• Informix
• Ingres
• MS Access
• MySQL
• MS SQL Server
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Sybase ASE, ASA
• Firebird

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

Effective Project Management

Project managers can use Enterprise Architect to:

• Assign resources to elements
• Measure risk and effort
• Estimate project size and complexity
• Implement change control and maintenance procedures

Enterprise Architect's Use Case Metrics capability makes it easy to assess relative project complexity, based on the number and type of use cases within the model, the type of project and capabilities of the development environment.

With experience, use case metrics provide a great way to quickly assess the scope of a project.