APM, BCM, and TPM Accelerators

Enterprise Architect 17 ships with specialized model-based perspectives designed to accelerate Application Portfolio Management (APM), Business Capability Modeling (BCM), and Technology Portfolio Management (TPM).

These accelerators offer:

• Focused Tools and Templates: Pre-configured perspectives tailored to APM, BCM, and TPM, providing the exact tools, templates, and workflows required for these critical areas.
• Efficiency and Productivity: Accelerate project initiation and execution with perspectives that streamline processes and reduce setup time.
• Best Practices Integration: Incorporate industry best practices into your modeling environment, ensuring robust and effective management of applications, business capabilities, and technology portfolios.

Instantly Activate Perspectives

Once activated, the custom perspective will immediately apply its changes to the model, modifying every user's UI and perspective based on their security group. This provides a powerful way to focus different security groups on different tasks, giving them the exact tools and technologies they need. Users have the option to switch between perspectives to achieve different views for different purposes.

Enhanced Customization and Extension

Model-based perspectives make it much easier to customize and extend existing technologies within Enterprise Architect. By leveraging model perspectives, you can:

• Streamline Customization: Tailor the interface and tool-sets to specific roles and tasks, ensuring that users have access to the tools they need without unnecessary complexity.
• Extend Technologies: Build on existing technologies by adding or modifying toolbars, ribbons, toolboxes, and diagram types to fit unique project requirements.
• Role-Specific Interfaces: Create focused user interfaces that enhance productivity by aligning tools and functionality with the specific needs of different security groups.
• Seamless Integration: Integrate new perspectives smoothly into your existing workflow, reducing the learning curve and increasing efficiency.
• Dynamic Adaptability: Easily switch between different perspectives to adapt to changing project demands and ensure that all team members are working with the most appropriate tools and views.

Perspectives for Specific Groups

Enterprise Architect 17 also includes model-based perspectives tailored for specific professional groups, ensuring that each role has the tools and views needed to maximize productivity:

1. Software Engineers: Custom perspectives designed to support software development processes and tools.
2. Systems Engineers: Tailored interfaces for systems engineering tasks, ensuring efficient workflow management.
3. Data Modelers: Perspectives that focus on data modeling tools and techniques, enhancing data management and analysis capabilities.
4. Application Architects: Custom views and tools for designing and managing application architectures.
5. Business Architects: Perspectives that align with business architecture methodologies and tools, supporting strategic planning and analysis.
6. Technology Architects: Interfaces designed for technology architecture tasks, ensuring effective technology portfolio management.

Enterprise Architect 17’s model-based perspectives empower you to create a highly customized and efficient modeling environment, tailored to your organization's unique needs and enhancing overall productivity.

Perspectives
Use the Data Warehousing Perspective to get views and models focused on modeling data warehouse pipelines without the distraction of other features. Setting the Data Warehousing Perspective ensures that the Data Warehousing diagrams, their toolboxes, and other relevant features of this Perspective will be available by default.

Model Patterns
The data warehousing patterns comprise a valuable set of templates and worked examples that you can use to get off to a flying start. The model patterns contain content you can inject into your model at the selected location in the project browser and start modeling it by extending or customizing it to your needs.

There are 3 sets of model patterns for IOT. Among which one set gives examples for key aspects of gathering data from IoT devices and other sources, ingesting it into data warehousing storage devices, and creating business intelligence visualizations for business stakeholders based on their requirements.
Data modelers and other stakeholders can use the model pattern, including enterprise data images, to represent data warehousing concepts.

The image sets include:

Download the image sets once into your model repository and use the images in suitable places in your model diagrams.

Diagrams and Toolboxes
The Data Warehousing technology allows you to create integrated traceable diagrams with a separate toolbox for each layer of Data warehouse design: Business, Strategy, Governance, Application, Technology, and Data. These diagrams and accompanying toolboxes provide clear differentiation between different types of elements in each layer.

Visualize and Monitor Evolutionary Changes in Your Models

Discover the power of Time Aware Modeling (TAM) for Sparx Systems, allowing you to seamlessly track and visualize the evolution of your System or Enterprise architecture over time. With TAM, gain insights into new developments, features, and bug fixes, enabling you to maintain a clear roadmap of your projects' development trajectory within your model.

Baseline Comparison Expansion

Elevate your model comparisons by now being able to compare packages with models across various platforms, including local files, Native Connections, ODBC connections, and Cloud-hosted models. This expanded capability enhances your ability to assess changes and maintain consistency across your architecture elements.

Enhanced Package Control

Efficiently manage model packages with precision by comparing them to native XML/XEA files, replicated or branched models, and different versions or branches of model packages. This level of control ensures comprehensive analysis and alignment of your architecture components.

Introducing the Timelines Window

Empower your modeling experience with the new Timelines window, allowing you to create snapshots of diagrams, packages, and elements within defined timeframes. Capture key moments in your architecture's evolution and leverage these snapshots for enhanced traceability and audit capabilities.

Diagram Enhancements

• Capture image snapshots and Baseline snapshots of current model diagrams.
• Seamlessly create snapshots of diagrams to track incremental changes over time.

Package Management

• Create package snapshots and clones within TAM for detailed comparisons.
• Compare model packages across different versions, clones, or branches for comprehensive analysis.

Element Tracking

• Capture Core and Full snapshots of elements for granular visibility into changes.

Version Control and Audit

• Establish versioning protocols to track model iterations over time.
• Utilize audit controls within the Timelines window to review context-based audit history, ensuring transparency and accountability in your architecture management processes.

Simplify various diagramming use cases with the new drag & drop capabilities in Enterprise Architect 17:

• Conveyed Items: Drag a Classifier onto an ItemFlow to add it as a conveyed item.
• StateMachine Triggers: Drag a Trigger onto a Transition in a StateMachine diagram to apply it as a trigger.
• State Behaviors: Drag an Activity onto a State in a StateMachine diagram to apply it as an 'entry|do|exit' behavior, with a prompt for the action type.
• Sequence Diagram Operations: Drag an Operation onto a message in a Sequence diagram to set it as the called operation.
• Signal Applications: Drag a Signal onto a message in a Sequence diagram, a SendSignal Action, or an AcceptEvent Action to create a new Trigger and apply the signal.
• Connector Adjustments: Drag an element onto a connector to split the existing connector and rejoin the ends to the dropped element where appropriate.

Enterprise Architect 17 introduces an enhanced user interface for the SBPI integration window, enabling seamless navigation across various external data providers and different menu levels within those providers.

SBPI allows you to create a representation and link external data elements from third-party tools inside Enterprise Architect. These elements can then be linked and used in your modeling activities, while keeping the data updated with any changes from the third-party tool.

Enterprise Architect Version 17 allows you to:

The new updates ensure your data remains up-to-date across all information systems.

Version 17 offers enhanced accessibility capabilities. Improved dialogue interaction via Windows Narrator makes it possible to confidently navigate dialog labels and controls.

Windows Narrator now has the ability to read the selected item of any tree control or list control simply by tabbing through them in Enterprise Architect.


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Enterprise Architect 17 offers you full access to the Code Miner API. The new API will delegate all calls to an internal code miner which will manage the node sets. Import complex data from grammars, logic and rules specific to your project.

It is available in the Corporate, Unified and Ultimate editions of Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect 17 introduces a suite of enhancements and refinements to Profile Authoring, providing a more streamlined and intuitive experience for users.

Enterprise Architect 17's advancements in Profile Authoring provide a powerful, user-friendly modeling environment that meets the evolving needs of our users.

Enterprise Architect 17 introduces a fresh visual enhancement with the addition of the new 'Office 2022' theme. This theme is now available in the Application Look dialog from the Visual Style button from the Start Ribbon and offers users a modern and polished interface option. The 'Office 2022' theme brings a contemporary aesthetic to your modeling environment, ensuring a visually appealing and user-friendly experience.

Our latest update brings a more intuitive and streamlined interface with the introduction of the Builder Page.

The Builder Page is comprised of two sections:

• Model Builder: Previously known as 'Create from Pattern', this tool is now more accessible and ready to help you construct models with ease. Find it conveniently located within the Builder Page.
• Diagram Builder: The 'Add Diagram' function has been revamped and renamed. Now called 'Diagram Builder', it offers a simplified and more powerful way to add diagrams to your projects, all within the new Builder Page.

Experience a more efficient workflow with these enhancements, designed to make your project building process smoother and more intuitive.