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Ultimate Modeling and Design Tool Suite: Innovate and Collaborate

Professional Edition | Corporate Edition | Unified Edition | Ultimate Edition

The perfect enterprise wide solution to visualise, analyse, model, test and maintain all of your systems, software, processes and architectures. Enterprise Architect is the ideal platform to help you to stay in control of your workspace, support your colleagues and team, enable collaboration and build confidence within your most complex projects.

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Professional: Starter Edition

A fully featured UML modeling environment for workgroups, analysts and developers. Includes support for multi user projects and code engineering (import / export / synchronization).

Corporate: Enterprise Workhorse

Includes all the features of the Professional version, with the added ability to use a variety of DBMS's for shared model repositories. Also includes role-based security, auditing and baseline merge tools for managing concurrent users. This edition is for larger teams that require fine-grained control in shared modeling environments.

Unified: Power Tools & Frameworks

As a business, systems and software development professional working on real-time, embedded and systems solutions using UML, SysML, DDS, DMN, BPSim and related technologies, this edition of Enterprise Architect has features and built in tools to help you and your team deliver the best solution possible.

Ultimate: Access All Areas

For power users and those working across multiple domains, the Ultimate Edition offers the complete Enterprise Architect experience. A complete package, the Ultimate Edition contains all the features and bundled software of the other editions. Integrated modeling platform - 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!

High performance

Load extremely large models in seconds- Fast! Enterprise Architect users agree - Enterprise Architect is a spectacularly fast performer, loading extremely large models in seconds. Featuring a high-performance model repository, Enterprise Architect easily accommodates large teams sharing the same view of the enterprise.

Collaborate effectively globally - With tightly integrated version control capabilities, and deployable cloud-based servers, Enterprise Architect also allows globally distributed teams to collaborate effectively on shared projects.

Simulation

Bring your models to life - 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.

Take control of your simulations
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.

Improve business outcomes
Use breakpoints to analyze decision making and improve business outcomes. Simulation can help to improve communication, convey essential business ideas and reduce complexity.

Traceability
Complete traceability - Enterprise Architect provides complete traceability from requirements, analysis and design models, through to implementation and deployment. Effective verification, validation and immediate impact analysis are possible across the entire life cycle, using such capabilities as Enterprise Architect's Relationship Matrix and Hierarchy View.
Equipped with the right information. Combined with built-in task and resource allocation, Project managers and QA teams are equipped with the right information to help deliver projects successfully.

Manage complex information

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
  

Documentation

One click HTML and 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. Source code roundtrip - 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

Flexible and rich

Unique in its ability to pull together complex domains and create a single, accessible, unified vision. Combines high end tools, a commitment to open standards, accessible pricing and online availability.

• NIEM: National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) provides a common framework that is used to define how information can be shared between systems, government agencies and organizations.
• Open Standards: Based on open standards like UML, BPMN and SysML. Supporting enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF and UPDM. Integrated custom tools to analyze and visualize running software. Advanced simulation, testing tools, team based repositories, version control and more.
• Test and Debug: Develop and visualize software. Test and verify correct behavior. Simulate processes. Set and manage test points. Debug and inspect executing software. Advanced simulation, testing tools, team based repositories, version control and more.
• Simulation: Able to dynamically simulate behavior and state models. Confirm process design. Specify triggers, events, constraints and more. Watch the wheels turn! Specify complex and large structural systems. Create and debug embedded solutions. Build custom domain specific solutions. Build your own domain specific modeling tools!

Model driven architecture - Transforms and templates: 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

Debugging and visualization - Build, test and run - 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.

Walk through executing code. 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. Code execution to visual diagrams. 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.

Automation

Access the internals of models: The Automation Interface lets you access the internals of Enterprise Architect models. Any development environment capable of generating ActiveX Com clients can be used to connect to Enterprise Architect's Automation Interface. Some examples of tasks you could perform via the Automation Interface:

• Automatically generate and publish a daily HTML report to your local intranet
• Script repetitive tasks, such as property update common to all model elements
• Generate code from a state machine or diagram
• Produce custom reports
• Execute ad hoc queries against the model
  

Database modeling

Database tools and profiles - Enterprise Architect's built-in Data Modeling tools and profiles extend 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. Automatic generation of DDL- Enterprise Architect supports modeling of database schema and automatic generation of DDL scripts for eleven DBMS targets out-of-the-box: DB2; Firebird; MS Access; MySQL; MS SQL Server; Oracle; PostgreSQL

Systems engineering and simulation

Integrating many high-end features for Systems Engineers, the Ultimate and Unified editions of Enterprise Architect provide built-in support for:

• SysML 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
• Parametric model simulation
• Executable code generation
• Model to code transformations for Hardware Description Languages and ADA 2005
  

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

Extend UML 2.5

Enterprise Architect's foundations are built upon the UML 2 specification - but it doesn't stop there! Use UML Profiles to extend the modeling domain, while Model Validation ensures integrity. Combine Business Processes, Information and Work Flows in the one model using our free extensions for BPMN and the Eriksson-Penker profile.

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.