Key Features

Enterprise Architect is renowned for its rich feature set. Some of the key features are highlighted in the following list:

• Model complex information, software and hardware systems using UML-compliant notation (comprehensive UML 2.3 support for all 14 UML diagrams)
• Extended modeling for Requirements, User Interface Design, Mind Mapping, Data Modeling, SysML, SPEM, BPMN 1.1 and more
• Generate BPEL scripts automatically from Business Process models
• Built-in Requirements Management enables you to specify, trace and verify requirements directly against the design, right through to the deployed solution
• Comprehensive and flexible MS Word-compatible HTML and RTF report options
• Leverage industry-standard Enterprise Architecture frameworks (Zachman, TOGAF, DoDAF-MODAF)
• Support in forward and reverse code engineering for many software and hardware languages 'out of the box': ActionScript 3.0, Java, C#, C++, VB.Net, Delphi, Visual Basic , Python, PHP, Verilog, VHDL and SystemC
• Ability to perform database modeling, to reverse engineer from a range of DBMSs via ODBC, and to forward generate DDL scripts to create database structures
• Connect to shared database repositories using MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and more
• Manage, track and control change using baseline model merge and auditing capabilities

• Centralize enterprise-wide documentation of processes and information systems
• Model dependencies between elements, system dynamics and state
• Model class hierarchies, deployment, components and implementation details
• Record project issues, tasks and system glossary
• Assign resources to model elements and track effort expended against required effort

• Testing support for test cases, JUnit and NUnit
• Integrated Debug Workbench for visualizing executable Java and .Net applications, instantiating run-time model objects and generating Sequence diagrams from a stack trace
• Migrate changes across a distributed environment using Controlled XMI Packages
• Manage Version control though XMI using SCC CVS and Subversion configurations
• Inbuilt user and group security and access control management
• Distributed development through shareable files, use of shared repositories in a range of major Database Management Systems, file replication, data transfer, and import and export of reference data
• Share models using the latest XMI 2.1 format
• Import models in XMI format from other tools
• Built-in Model Driven Architecture (MDA) Transformations, and facilities to import or create others
• Facilities to import database schema, XSD and WSDL source, .NET and Java binaries

• Use UML Profiles to create custom extensions for domain-specific modeling
• Save and load complete diagrams as UML Patterns

• Create and share dynamic views of model elements and diagram sets using Model Views

• Analyze and trace relationships between elements using the tabular Relationship Matrix
• Generate executable business logic from rule tasks and trace to natural language business rules
• Transform behavioral models into executable source code for software and hardware description languages (HDLs) such as Verilog, VHDL, and SystemC
• Simulate SysML parametric models

• Script and automate common tasks using a detailed Automation Interface and Model Scripts

• A range of internal and external commercial MDG Add-Ins to integrate the facilities of Enterprise Architect with IDEs and other technologies, and templates to write your own
• Read-only Viewer enables stakeholders to view but not change milestone deliverables
• Price: Enterprise Architect is priced to outfit the entire team, making collaboration and team development a real possibility
• Speed: Enterprise Architect is quick to load and a spectacularly fast performer, even with large models
• Scalability: Enterprise Architect supports single users and the development of small models, or many concurrent users developing extremely large models, with equal ease
• Usability: many of our users agree, Enterprise Architect gets you started and productive quickly, with a rich user interface and the ability to create templates, model views and 'favorites' collections of commonly-used elements and diagrams.

For a complete list of the new features of the latest version of Enterprise Architect, click on the Help | Read Me menu option.

Enterprise Architect is available in six editions: Ultimate, Business and Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Corporate, Professional, and Desktop, each of which offers a different range of features.

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