EA Small to Medium Enterprise Solutions

SME

"Based on the UML 2.1 standard, with advanced features like model to model transformations (MDA), data base modeling, code generation templates, links to Eclipse and Visual Studio .Net 2003,  support for C#, C++, Java, VB, VB.Net, Delphi, Python, PHP, ActionScript and much more, Enterprise Architect is the ideal tool for the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME). "

As industry demands grow for increasingly complex, high quality software, delivered on-time and on-budget, Enterprise Architect provides the best feature set at the most attractive price of any similar modeling tool on the market.  High end performance and capability is coupled with ease of deployment and affordability, making it possible to outfit your entire staff at a fraction of the cost of similar tools.

With powerful code and database engineering capabilities, a fully WYSIWYG report writer, industry standard UML 2.1, shared model support and low cost of ownership, EA gives your company the productivity edge in a competitive market. If you need to reverse engineer hundreds of thousand of lines of legacy code, capture database models, specify requirements or manage model change effectively, EA is the tool for you.

For consulting practices, EA's extensive automation interface, code generation templates, RTF templates, UML Patterns, UML Profiles and MDA style transformations are the kind of high-end features that let you define a domain specific "turn key" solution for your clients, for yourself or for your target industry.

With additional support for testing, requirements management, resourcing, project management, maintenance and change, EA helps you manage both the design and delivery of new quality systems.

At a fraction of the cost of some competing products, EA provides "out of the box" features that can quickly boost productivity and let your company focus on the core issues and solutions.

For larger companies the Corporate Version Features:

  • 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 very large models
  • Support for distributed development using version control, replication or shared model

For smaller teams, the Professional version features include:

  • 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
  • Code generation templates to allow customization of output
  • Model Driven Architecture (MDA) Transformations, including Transformation templates
  • Built in Transformations for DDL, Java, C#, EJB and XSD.
  • Version control using CVS or SCC compliant tools
  • 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 others only interested in reading models

And support/deployment:

  • Competent and effective email support from Sparx staff
  • Excellent documentation in both PDF and HTML Help format
  • Lightweight installer (~27 MB or less)
  • Standard Windows Installer based setup
  • Support for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
  • Linux support running under Cross-Over Office