Enterprise Architecture Tools

Enterprise Architecture Tools Overview

Enterprise Architectures are an emerging approach for capturing complex knowledge about organizations and technology. Enterprise Architectural approaches range from broad, enterprise focused approaches, through to approaches aimed at specific domains.

The focus of enterprise architecture efforts is now shifting to become more holistic, thereby necessitating the use of comprehensive modeling tools to analyze and optimize the portfolio of business strategies, organizational structures, business processes / tasks and activities, information flows, applications, and technology infrastructure.

Important to adoption of an enterprise architectural approach is the availability of tools to support the development, storage, presentation and enhancement of enterprise architecture representations. As with enterprise architecture methodologies, enterprise architecture tools to support the architectural development process are still emerging.

High value is derived from consolidating this portfolio of business artifacts into a single repository in a standardized manner to support enterprise analysis and optimization.

Updated Enterprise Architecture Tools Overview - July 2007

More info about Enterprise Architecture Tool Selection guidelines can also be found in the EA Book, 'How to survive in the jungle of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks'.

BiZZdesign Architect

BiZZdesign is an innovative consultancy and tools firm aimed at innovation, analysis, design and realization of business processes. With an excellent collection of methods and tools, BiZZdesign helps clients to realize their goals.

Business Processes are important in any organisation. But, how well do you know your processes? BiZZdesign can help you analyse, improve and redesign your processes. We support this with tools, methods, consultancy and best-practices at all levels, from architecture to process management.

BiZZdesigner Release 8.6
In july 2006 BiZZdesigner 8.6 has been made available. Various new functions have been added, such as repository-support, BPEL-export and UML improvements. In addition, several problems were solved.
In order to get acquainted with these new functions, we offer special upgrade courses. If you are interested in joining such a course, you can contact us at sales@BiZZdesign.com.

BiZZdesign Architect Release 1.3
BiZZdesign Architect® is a tool environment with supporting methods, consultancy and training. Architect aims at capturing architectures and provides functions to visualize and analyse the coherence between different architectural domains. Release 1.3 offers new functions, such as:

With the addon for Team support, Architect enables collaboration on models (via a shared file). You can checkin and checkout parts of models, retrieve previous revisions and label revisions with a meaningful name.
With the addon for Repository support, Architect allows you to implement a repository server on a relational database server. Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle are supported.
The cross relation tables are extended with 'show why' functionality. In addition, cross relation tables now have the possibility of showing labels, in parallel with the existing function to show landscape colours. The colour legend in a table now only shows the values that are present in the table.
Architect can read BiZZdesigner models.
Four new view options: (1) helicopter selector, (2) view in full screen, (3) scale view to fit, and (4) scale to 100%.

For more info visit http://www.bizzdesign.nl/html/index_en.html

The CollabNet SourceCast Environment

CORE.GOV is using the CollabNet SourceCast tool, a robust collaborative environment that organizes and maps the components in a variety of ways to make them easy to identify, discuss and develop.

The CollabNet® SourceCast® environment integrates applications for: software development, knowledge management, and project communication. This unified environment is controlled through a Web-based project workspace with a centralized role-based permissions model and enables secure and cost-effective development across multiple organizations. The CollabNet SourceCast environment supports all the phases of the application lifecycle, from requirements, through development and testing, to support.

Casewise Corporate Modeler

Corporate Modeler enables business and IT people to capture, analyze, simulate and optimize 'end-to-end' business processes and supporting systems to reach strategic goals.

Corporate Modeler 10 ensures a common understanding of the 'as-is' and 'to-be' situations amongst your team, your managers and your business partners. It also enables you to experiment with 'what-if?' scenarios to formulate the best business and IT decisions.

By linking organizational, process and technology modeling together through a central repository, Corporate Modeler provides a holistic view of the enterprise. A view that enables users to eliminate business process inefficiencies, roll-out best practice processes and create systems that truly enhance the organization.

“[Casewise] has the technical sophistication to improve the product as the market changes. Their strong relationships with consultants will undoubtedly provide strength and special insight into the changes needed to survive and prosper.” On Corporate Modeler’s key features they comment… “Corporate Modeler 10.0 has a powerful object repository, and its diagrams are well integrated with the repository. “Creating and modifying diagrams is easy. An analyst can easily tailor diagrams to display them as he or she wishes. “Corporate Publisher makes it easy to generate reports that document your models and the information associated with specific objects. “The simulation facility is easy to use and facilitates checks on the efficient flow and cost of new process designs.

Telelogic System Architect

Telelogic System Architect enables you to build an Enterprise Architecture - a fully integrated collection of modelsand documents across four keys architecture domains: Business, Information, Systems, and Technology.

Telelogic System Architect’s comprehensive enterprise architecture solution offers a shared workspace for all managers to understand how to improve the company's architecture and use business process improvement enabling:

• Increased Organizational Agility
• Alignment of Business Processes and IT Systems to Business Objectives
• Planning, Modeling, and Execution of Business Processes (BPM)
• Rapid, Effective and Positive Response to Business Change

Telelogic System Architect for Enterprise Architecture
Telelogic System Architect is a comprehensive modeling solution designed to provide all of the tools necessary to develop successful enterprise systems. Achieve your objectives with Telelogic System Architect>>

For more info visit www.telelogic.com

Troux Architect

Strategic Alignment and Strategic Planning depends on the breadth and depth of information about an organization’s current state and what it envisions in the future to provide the basis for key business decisions. Aligning people, processes and technologies with growth initiatives defines business success.

Troux Architect, a visual modeling tool, creates representations of information about people, processes and technologies and their relationships, modeling an enterprise from the perspective of both current and future states. This comprehensive approach extends benefit beyond IT, to business stakeholders throughout an organization. The resulting Business Intelligence supports decisions which improve business- performance efficiencies as well as those which offer growth opportunities.

Visibility and Flexibility to Accommodate Change

• Visual, graphical and relational model views display change impact across all organizational functions
• Graphical model views of complex infrastructures enables a deeper understanding of business strategy, business processes and IT operations, and their relationships
• Decision-makers see entire enterprise, including business strategies and operations aligned with IT functions and infrastructure
• Broader understanding of relationships – and risks – in and between business and IT enables rapid change impact assessment avoiding costly mistakes
• ‘What if’ analysis of proposed decisions from enterprise view to project level enables organizations to adapt to continuous change
• Integrates with legacy applications

Visual Modeling for all Architecture Domains

Whether you’re an Enterprise Architect or a focused on architecture development and management within a domain, Troux Architect provides a powerful and flexible set of features to accomplish your objectives.

ARIS Platform

ARIS Platform - Easy, Smart & Powerful

The result of one of the biggest development projects of IDS Scheer AG - the new ARIS Platform - is available in German, English, French, Spanish, and Japanese.
By developing the new Tools ARIS Business Architect and ARIS Business Designer, the ARIS Platform has been designed in response to customer needs that have developed over the years. This includes rigorous development of the ARIS Web strategy.

Your Advantages

• Usability - Easy and smart process design
• Availability - Permanent and everywhere available
• Administration - Decentral user and database administration
• Scalability - Web-based State-of-the-art technology

ARIS Business Architect
The new ARIS Business Architect provides for the professional process manager. Web-based administration components and also advanced design and automation concepts.

ARIS Business Designer
The new ARIS Business Designer paves the way to rapid and easy entry into process design - through intuitive user-handling and the possibility to implement Business Process Management company-wide.

ARIS Business Optimizer
Another member of the new product family is ARIS Business Optimizer for setting up BSC Engines and creating cost transparency for issues such as personnel requirements planning, benchmarking, or process controlling.

Logidex

WHAT IS LOGIDEX?
LogicLibrary Logidex is a software development asset (SDA) mapping and discovery engine that represents inherently complex, enterprise application environments in a graphical, intuitive way. Software development assets can include: executables (e.g., components, services, frameworks) and their associated software development lifecycle artifacts (e.g., requirements documentation, UML models, test plans), as well as knowledge assets, such as best practices and design patterns. The Logidex SDA Library is an inventory of SDAs and their relationships to each other, the company's business processes and the technical infrastructure.

Enterprise information technology organizations can have thousands of applications, components, database tables, design patterns, application frameworks and other application development building blocks distributed worldwide. Despite a massive proliferation of these software development assets (SDAs), many companies fail to leverage their existing investment in these assets. As budget and competitive pressures on enterprise information technology organizations continue to mount, organizations need cost-effective ways to modernize their existing SDAs, but they struggle with understanding where to begin. How can they unlock their software assets if they don't even know what they have and how it fits within their environment?

FlashPack for EA

Flashline 5

To better align IT with the needs of the business, development organizations are moving beyond today's project-centric approach to managing software development. To improve the productivity and quality of all software development projects, they are implementing broad programs such as enterprise architecture, Web services, software reuse, and business process management. Flashline overcomes the barriers to implementation and adoption of enterprise programs. Organizations rely on Flashline as the foundation for the management and promotion of software asset reuse and to measure the bottom line impact.

FlashPack for Enterprise Architecture.
Flashline(r), the leading provider of software asset management solutions, today announced the FlashPack(tm) for Enterprise Architecture. The FlashPack for Enterprise Architecture pre-configures the Flashline Registry(tm) as a platform for the deployment and governance of enterprise architecture. The Registry with the FlashPack for Enterprise Architecture gives organizations a way to drive architecture planning into execution. In addition, Flashline also announced the latest release of its flagship product, Flashline Registry version 4.2, with new analytics to fully support the FlashPack for Enterprise Architecture.

Select Enterprise

Select Enterprise is a scalable design environment for pragmatic business process design, UML and database design.

Select Enterprise can be upgraded to Select Component Architect the highly scalable, end to end design solution for business, data, object, component and web services based application development.

Select Enterprise allows you to model complex IT applications before commencing development, uncovering costly problems earlier in the development life-cycle. It also acts as a store for intellectual property, which is invaluable during system maintenance, improvement and integration.

Select Enterprise provides all developers with centralized access to models through a central multi-user repository. The repositories can be networked, to suit the geography of distributed designers. This lets any size, or number, of teams to develop applications faster, with greater consistency, reducing costs. The Select Enterprise repository has complete facilities for backup, recovery, model management and version control. Select Enterprise scalability means it will work for your organization - no matter how large or complex.

ProVision EnterprisePro

ProVision modeling suite provides an enterprise-wide process modeling environment that enables companies to quickly know, improve and implement the most cost effective and efficient business processes and systems. ProVision’s sharable repository of integrated strategy, process and system models provides the framework to effectively model all dimensions of the enterprise and support initiatives such as process improvement, Six Sigma, ISO certification, enterprise architecture, requirements definition and application development.

Enterprise Architecture Edition

Visible Advantage is a full life-cycle, integrated software engineering modeling tool that helps organizations to automate projects that involve business management, strategic business planning, new systems development, existing systems redevelopment, and information systems management. It fully supports all phases of the business planning and systems development life cycles.

Visible Advantage can be used to evaluate the business plan, data model, process model, and system design for quality, completeness, implementability, and consistency, allowing an organization to build, migrate, redesign, and integrate systems. It allows an organization to identify errors and inconsistencies before they become business or systems problems.

MEGA Product Overview

MEGA is a global suite of products dedicated to increasing your company's performance through the use of business modeling and monitoring tools. The MEGA products are a solid cornerstone for any Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management, Enterprise Risk Management, or Corporate Compliance initiative.

You can't change what you can't see. Enterprise modeling techniques ensure visibility and understanding of your business operations and IT systems as well as associated risks. Dedicated tools provide the ability to share this information with all stakeholders in your organization.

To understand, share, monitor, and optimize your operations and IT systems, MEGA includes different components. All of them are built on and share the same repository database. Thus they can be used independently or together, depending on your project requirements.

Enterprise Architecture Management

Managing Complexity. Implementing Standards. Adding Value!

Enterprise architecture management is essential to describe complex IT systems and to develop standards that enable business competitiveness and flexibility. The Enterprise Architecture Management Module in planningIT helps enterprise architects to see, analyze, control and align the IT landscape with the business to guide competitive transformation.

alfabet software is the key to understand and manage the dependencies between strategic business targets, the IT project portfolio, the concerned elements of the business architecture as well as the expected strategic and monetary effects on IT's effectiveness in supporting the company's business processes.

With alfabet, all architects, planners, and decision makers take great advantages from a shared language and cross-divisionally linked information management processes supported by a software platform that is designed for large deployments.

With the new Generation 5, you will be able to organize your Strategic IT Management processes and, in particular, the collaboration of your teams, thus significantly increasing performance. The newly integrated groupware functionalities allow you to localize and, even more importantly, to utilize potentials for efficiency in your management processes.

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect 6.5

"Enterprise Architect is a flexible, complete and powerful UML modeling tool for the Windows platform. Providing the competitive edge for system development, project management and business analysis; an object oriented CASE tool for the full development life-cycle - at a sensible price."

Enterprise Architect 6.1 builds on the already exceptional success of previous versions with comprehensive support for the new UML 2.0 standard. With EA 6.1, modelers now have the power and expressiveness of all 13 UML 2.0 diagrams at their fingertips. Coupled with many small enhancements and a new tabbed style interface, EA 6.1 proves itself again to be one of the most complete and effective UML modeling tools on the market.

EA 6.1 provides comprehensive support for the new UML 2.0 standard as defined by the OMG (www.omg.org). Support for all 13 UML 2.0 diagrams and associated diagram elements, including:

EA 4.1 introduces MDG Technologies, MDG Link for VS.NET, improved support for UML Profiles, performance enhancements and much more.

Enterprise Architecture WebModeler

EA WebModeler is based on 14 years of EA delivery experience and one of the industry's easiest tool to collaboratively create a dynamic picture of the interdependences between management objectives, business processes, projects, applications, resources, finances, data and the information technology infrastructure that enables the enterprise.

Agilense EA WebModeler is a commercial (COTS) enterprise architecture management product. EA WebModeler uniquely fills the gap in current EA offerings by providing a complete, easy to use, easy to deploy, cost effective, end-user focused enterprise architecture management tool. EA WebModeler's multi-user, read/write, knowledge repository, editor, and portal eliminate the need for EA point solutions while providng open interfaces to leverage past investments. EA WebModeler supports the following frameworks: Agilense, Synthesis, Zachman, TOGAF, DoDAF, FEAF/TEAF, FEA. EA WebModeler has fully programmable development facilities and interfaces with other tools.

Adaptive Inc.

Helping organizations make Real Change in Real Time

Adaptive provides software products called Adaptations, designed to solve specific business problems. Adaptations are built using the Adaptive Reference Model™ as the design framework and the Adaptive Foundation™ tool suite as the base software. Customization and implementation services from Adaptive Solutions® are used to deliver customer specific solutions.

ADAPTIVE Enterprise Architecture Manager

More than ever, the difference between success and failure for any organization is the ability of its executive team to manage complexity and to manage change. Increasing customization, growing combinations of products, markets and channels, value chains turning into value networks, non-traditional competition, mergers and acquisitions as well as continuing globalization dramatically increase complexity within and across organizations.

The Challenge

Many organizations have difficulty effectively tracing how their strategies are implemented and how resources are used across the organization. Every year, millions or even billions of currency is lost on mismatches between strategies, processes, performance targets, roles and responsibilities, human resources, IT applications and projects to improve all these.

Top executives recognize that effectively managing an organization requires a clear understanding and alignment of several key factors. However, they typically lack the tools they need to manage the complexity involved. This is where Adaptive’s Top Slice Architecture comes in.

Simon Visual Language

Simon Labs – SimonTOOL – Simon Enterprise Architecture, Zachman, RM:ODP – Simon Visual Language, UML, Visio add-on

Requirements Tools Overview

Please note that the list does not imply a recommendation, nor does omission imply that I diapprove of the tool. We urge you to carefully consider your requirements for a tool before looking at any of them. Some of these companies have demonstration versions available.

Enterprise Architecture Tools for Delivering Combat and Business Capabilities

In reference to the development of a Command, Control, Communications, Computer and Intelligence Support Plan (C4ISP), required for the acquisition milestone decisions of a major new weapon system, a Program Manager (PM) asked, "How can I develop the Information Exchange Requirements (IER) for my system (as specified for the C4ISP), if I don't know who I will be exchanging information with?" This doesn't seem possible. A multi-billion dollar defense program, and we don't know who's talking with whom? After subsequent discussion though, what the PM was validating was really the "case" for enterprise architecture.