What You Can Do
Enterprise Architect is a rich and diverse modeling environment. At the highest level it uses a wide range of tools to help manage, understand, visualize, explore, trace and work with complex systems.
| • | General analysis, design, construction, visualization, testing, simulation and management of many domains |
| • | Software construction, analysis, management, testing, coding, debugging and visualizing |
| • | Business analysis, process definition, requirements management, process simulation, traceability |
| • | Systems analysis, design, simulation, engineering and verification
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A summary of some of the main activities supported by Enterprise Architect
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Modeling
Analysis and Design
Requirements
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To create models with Enterprise Architect, you should become familiar with:
| • | How you apply UML in Enterprise Architect to develop your models |
| • | UML extensions such as SysML, BPMN, DDS and others |
| • | Model Transformations and MDA |
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Modeling Fundamentals
Standard UML Models
Requirement Models
Domain Based Models
Model Transformation
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Managing Models
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To manage the models in your projects you:
| • | Create and structure models |
| • | Work with elements within packages and views |
| • | Create diagrams as visual representation of model elements |
| • | Import and export model information |
| • | Protect and manage the model data itself |
| • | Communicate information on the data in the form of online, printable and web-page documentation and reports, and |
| • | Manage change with baselines, XMI import and export and auditing |
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Projects and Teams
Team Development
Reporting
Change Management
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Code Engineering
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In Enterprise Architect, UML modeling both depends on and supports code engineering - you generate and update code from a model, and you create and update models from code
In this broad sense, Enterprise Architect enables you to:
| • | Forward engineer, reverse engineer, round-trip and synchronize code in a range of programming languages |
| • | Model and generate code for XML Technologies |
| • | Perform database modeling and design for a range of database management systems |
| • | Convert model components from one domain to another using Model Driven Architecture (MDA) Transformations |
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Overview Of Development
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Model Simulation
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Model Simulation brings your behavioral models to life with instant, real-time behavioral model execution. Coupled with tools to manage triggers, events, guards, effects, breakpoints and simulation variables, plus the ability to visually track execution at run-time, the Simulator is a powerful means verifying the correctness of your behavioral models.
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Model Simulation
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Managing Projects
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Enterprise Architect provides strong support for Project Management, particularly in the following areas:
| • | Project estimation - working out how much time and effort is required to build and deploy a solution, using the Use Case metrics facility and carefully-calibrated metrics |
| • | Defining, assigning and managing resources |
| • | Communicating Project Management discussions and decisions to the project |
| • | Monitoring and managing problems, changes, issues and tasks that affect both individual elements and the project as a whole |
| • | Managing the development, execution and results of testing, from Integration through to User Acceptance, and |
| • | Maintaining a project glossary of terms, procedures and policies applied to the project
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The scope of your project management might include upgrades to Enterprise Architect and installation of related technologies
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Projects and Teams
Testing
Maintenance
License Management
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Extending Enterprise Architect Facilities
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Experienced technology developers can develop customized additions to the functionality already present within Enterprise Architect. These additions include:
| • | UML Profiles and Stereotypes |
| • | Enterprise Architect Add-Ins |
By creating these extensions the Technology Developer can customize the Enterprise Architect modeling process to specific tasks and speed up development.
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Extending UML Models
Automation and Scripting
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