ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT 15

FUTURE PERFECT

Version 15 combines an incredibly rich new palette of tools, visual improvements, team customizations, governance, accessibility, integrations, collaboration and deployment options that together will revolutionize and revitalize your modeling and design process. A single tool to expertly cut across multiple domains and build a fully integrated, unified view of your business, your software, your systems, your processes, your enterprise and your world.

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Visual flexibility

Custom drawing styles let you choose how to represent design elements with custom shapes, transparencies, colors and images. Unleash your creativity and build the visual representations your customers are familiar with.

Let your imagination run wild – custom drawing styles

Streamline your diagram’s appearance with the new “Simple” diagram style. As a drawing style, it is minimalist, removing notation-specific detail, leaving uncluttered diagrams that are easily understood by all stakeholders. Any detailed design diagram, using the correct element types, can be easily rendered in this simple format, ensuring a change to the detailed model is updated in the view presented to the non-technical staff.

For Executives, Architects and Business Users

This drawing style is frequently used by architects, business users, executives and many others as a preferred means of conveying custom information concerning a business capability, architecture, system interaction and many other scenarios. Coupled with WebEA and Prolaborate, this offers end users instant access to attractive and familiar diagrams that avoid the general “dullness” of UML and other technical diagrams.

Governance

Take advantage of model based add-ins to enforce new work flows, governance and control within your mission critical models. Leverage the security group based restrictions on Perspectives (technologies) and Ribbon sets to ensure your modelers see only the tools and technologies relevant to them.

Add-ins that are defined in the model

Model Based Add-Ins are designed to ease development and deployment of custom add-ins. It provides a platform for add-ins that are defined within the model itself and therefore do not require network staff or others to manage the update and deployment cycle

Significant features and capabilities include:

• Add-ins are defined in the model using standard modeling techniques
• JavaScript supported for all behavioral code
• Add-ins can:
  • Access all Repository based behavior
  • Respond to repository events (signals)
  • Set up and use property lists
  • Call SBPI based API’s

Activated Add-Ins

Activating a dynamic add-in is a security controlled process in which an admin or authorized person may select from the list of add-ins defined within a model and check those which are active and deselect those that are not authorized or ready to run. Activated add-ins will run when the model is opened and be torn down when the model closes.

Publish Add-Ins

Dynamic add-ins can be published as XMI and re-used in different models, giving the flexibility to:

• Publish a range of dynamic add-ins using the Reusable Asset Service (RAS).
• Develop a version of an add-in in a test repository and when ready, import it into the production model using XMI.

User interface and technology sets based on security group

The Perspectives capability has been streamlined and linked into Enterprise Architect’s security and governance to provide a richer and more useful modeling experience for both small teams and large enterprises.

Customized view and scope

Perspective sets associated with security groups on a per model basis allow administrators and business owners to customize the view and scope of particular modeling staff based on their area of concern and capability. For example, business modelers used to working with BPMN could be limited to working with the BPMN technology, removing all unnecessary perspective and technology sets from their interface when they are in a particular model. Likewise, particular menu ribbons can be hidden to further customize and focus the modelers workspace

New Perspective Groups

Version 15 improves on the Perspectives sets offered in previous editions by supporting additional perspective sets and including more generic sets that incorporate a wider range of material in a single set. For example, there is now an “All Business Modeling” perspective that aggregates all perspectives under the business modeling folder.