Cloud Services questions

[Pawel Zubkiewicz]

Hi,

I'm preparing a demo/evaluation setup of Enterprise Architect for IT unit at my company, to "finally" convince management that EA is best option for us.

I have experience with previous versions of EA (mostly 9 and 10) but I have never worked with Cloud Services. I read http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/enterprise-architect/cloud-services/cloud-services.html but some particular things are still not clear for me.
Could you please answer my questions:
1. How much Cloud Services cost ? Are they for "free" when you bought EA licenses? If yes, which of them?

Also, one of the features of Cloud Services is "Re-usable Asset Service".
2. Does RAS allows for easy document template sharing? As far as I know/remember document templates are locally stored (which is serious drawback in my opinion)
3. Does RAS allows sharing common elements between projects?
Let's say I have two or more systems that work in the same domain. Those systems have common: requirements, business rules, business processes, etc. Of course those systems also have specific requirements, rules, and many other properties and they are developed as separate projects by separate teams. Will there be any value added in using CS/RAS in comparison to "plain" repository in SVN/database?

Thanks in advance

[OpenIT Solutions]

Hi,

Cloud service is available with engineering, corporate and ultimate editions I think for free... not sure about personal, desktop...

RAS is not a feature of the Cloud Service, you need to enable separately. Its useful for sharing as its name suggests reusable assets - i.e. libraries/taxonomies of elements. Its useful in my mind if you have a set of elements that you want to reuse across multiple models. If however you only have one model RAS is not going to help.


Document templates are stored in the repository, so if you have a shared DBMS repository - the templates will be available to all.