EA Corporate Solutions

Corporate
"Enterprise Architect has a proven track record in providing the corporate sector with a comprehensive and robust UML 2.1 modeling tool. With advanced features, scalability and excellent performance, EA is more than capable of being used for software and system application development across the full lifecycle process."

EA is designed to carry out software design and business modeling from small systems through to large, integrated systems solutions. This has seen EA successfully deployed in many industry sectors, including aerospace, financial, automotive, computer hardware, software, mining, fabrication, entertainment, media, and many, many more. In all cases, EA has proven its worth in providing the power, robustness, performance and scalability required, while keeping cost of ownership to an absolute minimum.

With a perspective that ranges from Business Management through Architects and Engineers to Software coders and Project Managers, EA aids in the understanding and full specification of all processes. Working with large models is incredibly simple using EA, as is keeping track of user access to models, version control, traceability, testing and maintenance.

We believe that Enterprise Architect is one of the most effective CASE tools on the market, with exceptional value when it comes to outfitting an entire project team. EA will be a paramount player in delivering a speedy return on your initial project outlay, ensuring a vastly higher success rate by aiding you in realising a successful project.

Based on industry standard UML 2.1, EA rounds out its Corporate version with:

  • Integrated user security
  • Support for many popular DBMS systems as the back-end repository
  • Support for CVS and SCC based version control
  • Baseline capability to capture "point in time" snapshots of model contents
  • Comprehensive "compare and diff" capability to help track change
  • Support for distributed development using version control, replication or shared model

Add to the above, standard features like:

  • Support for all 13 UML 2.1 diagrams from the OMG's UML 2.1 specification
  • Powerful and easy to use WYSIWYG document generator producing high quality RTF output
  • HTML report generation
  • Code generation and reverse engineering for many popular languages
  • Model Driven Architecture (MDA) Transformations
  • Industry standard XMI import/export facility
  • Schema generation
  • Data base modeling
  • UML Profile support for defining standard extensions
  • UML Patterns support
  • Comprehensive automation interface for scripting and plug-ins
  • Dependency graphs and matrix support
  • Plug-ins to link EA with leading IDE's such as Eclipse and Visual Studio .Net 2003
  • Free "Viewer" edition for distribution to clients and staff only interested in reading models

And support/deployment:

  • Training from a wide range of capable and experienced 3rd party professionals
  • Consulting and deployment services from the extensive VAR network
  • Competent and effective email support from Sparx staff
  • Excellent documentation in both PDF and HTML Help format
  • Lightweight installer (~27 MB or less)
  • Floating license available
  • Standard Windows Installer based setup
  • Support for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
  • Linux support running under Cross-Over Office