Has ANYONE EVER been successful with EA?

[AlanH]

HiKimball,

Am currently putting an Enterprise Data Model together for the Department of Education in NSW Australia and having used Rational Rose, System Architect, ARIS and a host of other EA type tools at other sites... all of which are painful when it comes to getting documentation out... My preference would have been ERWIN, but they are not prepared to wear the CA licence fees... So I began using EA 3 months ago and am very happy with what it can do... I spent a fair bit of time with the RTF generator and now produce some reasonable looking documents, which we save to MS Word for final formatting.... The way I see it, since most of our modelling should be objective at least 95% of the facts (The who, what, where, when and hows) can be represented in the model content... the real problem is the other subjective 5% of justification (the whys)... I found putting this text in packages and dragging them into the 'Model Document' Class... was a lot easier than trying to maintain a MS Word document from coddled diagrams and scripts whenever the model changes... If you would like a sample of the output or some more details on the approach drop me a line... Al