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March 13, 2020
Great design tool for technically-oriented users
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect's typical usage scenarios comprise the capturing of business requirements, of more detailed use cases and scenarios that mimic required business situations and processes in a comprehensive way that is understood by business stakeholders as well as IT analysts. Business requirements can be then further translated to business logic (models, algorithms, process flows/workflows, business data objects, and other artifacts) that are linked to a high level as well as low-level ICT design (application logic, integration models, data models, etc.). The main reason and advantage for putting all the above into one IT solution (Enterprise Architect) is to provide a set of business and IT models, that are interrelated and any change to components such as process, data entity, integration service, business requirement, etc., can be traced to all other components. This would be the best practice - to have a tool that keeps track of any change you plan to do to your systems and helps indicates impacted components and relations. In practice, there are several obstacles to reaching this best usage practice.
- Enables recording and managmenet of all changes/requirements on ICT solutions.
- Improves transparency of relations among models.
- Helps to manage complexity of documentation.
- Supports well team collaboration (server version with shared database) and allows to manage user access rules.
- Essential tool for enterprise, application, integration and data architects.
- Is well thought through in respect to user experience, it is easy to work in the tool for both, business occasional users as well as seasoned IT analysts.
- Management of change requests or business requirements is much better implemented in JIRA or Confluence, there is an option to integrate EA artifacts with Confluence/JIRA specifications, via third party solution, in my experience this works one-directional, from EA to Confluence. Maybe there exists other solutions with a full synchronization. The result today is that you can share e.g. architectures designed in Enterprise Architect in Confluence.
- Model governance, especially by working on large scale projects with lots of people, requires double checking of any major change you want to do to the models, e.g. deleting of a particular item/component. Some feature to make deleting "more safe" would be nice.
March 17, 2020
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Review
I used Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect to deliver services to clients. It enables our Enterprise Architecture work.
- Easy to get started
- Easy to share content
- It supports TOGAF and UML.
- It requires knowledge of Enterprise Architecture.
- You need a proper plugin to deliver Enterprise Architecture.
We use Enterprise Architect in the Software Development department. We manage all the architecture of our applications with this software. It's an excellent tool to manage UML diagrams. Enterprise Architect supports MDA transforms of PIM Class structures to PSM Class structures.
- Enterprise Architect supports Data Modeling from the Conceptual to Physical levels, Forward and Reverse Engineering of Database Schemas
- Enterprise Architect provides an Integrated Development Environment that supports code editing, for Building, Debugging and Code Testing all from within the model.
- Enterprise Architect's user interface is outdated... It should be more fresh and clean
January 29, 2018
Sparx EA - An Unpolished Gem
Sparx EA is being used as a centralized single source of truth of architectural specifications, representations and related information and meta-information.
The user interface provides a set of customized views of the information, appropriate to the individual user's role and expertise.
As gatekeeper, I ensure proper governance, auditing and guide its evolution and use.
The user interface provides a set of customized views of the information, appropriate to the individual user's role and expertise.
As gatekeeper, I ensure proper governance, auditing and guide its evolution and use.
- Open Architecture - A wide and extensive set of options, plug-ins and customization options make Sparx EA more of a tool kit than just a tool. Most tools allow customization but Sparx EA is built from the ground up with this in mind.
- Wide variety of formats, lexicons, standards and data import export capabilities allow different roles to interact with the information in different ways.
- Automated report generation allows architects and designers to spend less taking on word processing and more time on performing architecture and design.
- It is not necessarily a user friendly tool, but then again neither are any of the others EA tools. They provide excellent tutorials and webinars. They should keep adding those.
- The RTF document templates can be challenging to create.
- Setting the sort ordering of searches in model views is complex(require a custom SQL query)
September 12, 2017
Sparx Enterprise Architect is a good tool
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect (EA) is being used to model all of the layers of operation within the business. This starts with the highest level of business modeling. Major business processes are modeled, then the more detailed processes within the business areas. This then drills down to the systems supporting the business functions then on to the systems architecture that delivers the systems.
This is used to ensure that a complete map of operational processes maps to a supported system and that architecture update plans are consistent with software upgrades and hardware lifecycles.
This is used to ensure that a complete map of operational processes maps to a supported system and that architecture update plans are consistent with software upgrades and hardware lifecycles.
- Descriptions of business processes, actors, actions, outcomes and outputs
- Mapping of all systems to business processes
- Collation of all architectural elements that comprise individual systems
- Needs someone that is very conversant with business modelling terminology
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Scorecard Summary
About Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
Enterprise Architect is the flagship architecture management platform from global, Australian-headquartered company Sparx Systems.
Categories: Enterprise Architecture Management
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