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

Speed, Stability and Performance

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. With tightly integrated version control capabilities, Enterprise Architect also allows globally distributed teams to collaborate effectively on shared projects.

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.

End-to-End 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.
• Combined with built-in task and resource allocation, Project managers and QA teams are equipped with the right information to help deliver projects successfully.

Model, Manage and Trace Requirements

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

Manage Complexity

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

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.

Generation and Reverse Engineering of Source Code

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...

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.

Advanced Model Driven Architecture

With built-in transformations for:

• C#
• DDL
• EJB
• Java
• JUnit
• NUnit
• WSDL
• XSD

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).

Automation - Harness the Power

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

Powerful Database Modeling

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

Systems Engineering and Simulation

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

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

Business Process Modeling

Enterprise Architect complements UML 2.4.1 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

Build upon UML 2.4.1

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.

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