ARCSeeker

ARCSeeker supports the reuse of Software Assets, particularly those created using Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect.

Software Assets include artifacts such as Software Architecture design documents or Source Files. Using ARCSeeker, you can create 'Components' from Enterprise Architect’s UML models and various related files. Components may specify additional information and documentation in Microsoft Word and Excel formats. These components can be easily identified and reused by your team members.
By storing your existing information with ARCSeeker, you can find and reuse your information effectively and efficiently.

For more information, please visit: http://www.arcseeker.com

Enterprise Analyst

Enterprise Analyst is an add-in for Sparx Systems' Enterprise Architect that enables the simulation of object instances of class models. The Enterprise Analyst add-in is built to support next-generation software development paradigms that include MDA, Executable UML and Domain Driven Design.

Using Enterprise Analyst, software analysts, architects and developers can validate, simulate and document future system domain models. The tool allows them to concentrate on the core of the system domain logic and is able to test the system during the analysis phase.

Some of the important benefits of applying formal analysis are:

• Much lower defect rate in the later phases (project time and cost decrease)
• Easier understanding and specification of the user requirements (software quality increases)
• Platform independent models as formal as the source code (future system maintenance, extension or technology update much easier)
• System documentation validated and generated (documentation quality increases)

Enterprise Analyst extends Enterprise Architect's built-in model validation capabilities by:

• Actively guiding the developer towards correcting syntax errors when validating model syntax
• Simulating and testing model semantics and helping the developer to achieve the needed functionality
• Checking model specifications for completeness and producing convenient documentation

Enterprise Analyst is available in both English and Spanish.

To learn more, please visit www.enterpriseanalyst.net.

RaQuest

RaQuest is a Requirements Management tool for Enterprise Architect (EA). Requirements Management may be used for managing the requirements of systems and applications effectively. With RaQuest, you can track changes of requirements and manage requirements with a range of features. RaQuest is the ideal tool for the enhanced development of your software applications.

Screen Architect

Screen Architect is a prototyping tool specifically developed to allow rapid prototyping of user interfaces.

Screen Architect is a plug-in to the UML CASE tool Enterprise Architect, allowing traceability between screen elements and the underlying analysis model.

Features include:

• Support for rapid User Interface (UI) modeling and screen design, including drag and drop ‘out of the box’ UI elements and components that adhere to existing standards;
• Support for comprehensively describing and documenting UI design elements in the same manner supported by EA, including element descriptions, associated business requirements and rules;
• Capability to generate prototype specifications either as RTF documents or published HTML pages for incorporation with software design specifications;
• Integration with UML models maintained in EA including use cases, activity diagrams and class models;
• Capability to generate standalone prototypes in HTML (or similar) format for demonstrating application design concepts such as application structure, navigation, look and feel and business requirements. This would enable end users as well as developers to ‘walk through’ a proposed application in conjunction with reading the associated requirements and design specifications.

For further information see our company listing, or visit the website www.screenarchitect.com

Tassc Estimator

Tassc:Estimator is a powerful and sophisticated software estimation application to help developers, team leaders, project managers and technical architects to plan, schedule, manage, track and control software projects. Simply tell Tassc:Estimator what you are planning to build (using UML scope elements such as use cases, classes, subsystems and components) and it will tell you how long it will take and how many people you need. You can produce rapid first-cut estimates using our auto-populate mechanism or specify the scope in detail to obtain a more accurate prediction. Control scope creep by seeing instant updates every time the project scope is adjusted.

The application comes fully loaded with productivity metrics for the standard UML constructs, allowing you to produce instant estimates even if your organisation has yet to start a metrics collection programme. These built-in metrics are customisable so that you can refine your estimates based on actual project experience. Tassc:Estimator also supports team profiling to enable you to specify individual resources, their availability and skill levels. It also supports risk assessment providing a justified contingency to build into project plans and schedules. Define your process structure and then populate tasks with scope and allocate to workers. Use the Gantt chart to create task dependencies and accurately predict delivery dates for each task, iteration and phase as well as for the entire project.

Tassc:Estimator is integrated with Enterprise Architect so that you can extract scope information from your existing UML models using the industry-standard XMI. Simply export your scope information from an EA project using XMI, and then import into the Architecture tool within Tassc:Estimator. The attached technical paper shows you how…

To learn more about Tassc:Estimator, visit http://www.tassc-solutions.com

Time Architect

2 Clicks to Gantt Chart, live inside EA!

Solutions Reality have released Time Architect a new add-in for Enterprise Architect (EA) that brings project and time management capability directly into EA.

Time Architect includes the following features:

Quick Chart – Allocate a default resource and duration, based on complexity/difficulty to any element without resources and draw the appropriate Gantt chart.

Time Calculations – calculate the end date of tasks based on start date, duration and dependencies.

Interactive Gantt chart – the generated Gantt Chart is fully integrated in EA, click on a task and see EA update to reflect the selection (and vice versa). Manage durations, resources and dependencies and see the timeline update accordingly.

Powerful Data Grid – view element data in a data table and perform filtering, sorting and grouping based on your needs. See the results on the Gantt chart.

Excel Export – easily export the filtered data grid contents out to Microsoft Excel (including element notes if required).

Reporting – TA can produce project reports (including summary information) in both PDF and HTML format.

Powerful Visualisation – TA utilises colour to bring additional information to the Gantt Chart. Colour by resource clearly shows who is doing what, when!

Create Task sheets – with TA it is easy to create task sheets so that people know what they should be doing, when.

And more...

For more information please visit the website: www.timearchitect.net and download the fully functional 20 day evaluation version, today.