Integrating EA with other informations

[glads]

Hi,

In a enterprise environment we need always integrated information. Not only the user information, but also the IT information. Models are kind of metadata and this is very important information to be integrated with others too. Example: we have a system which maintains a inventory of the systems and we would like integrating this information with our models in EA.

EA database is relational one. It's seems to be easy integrating EA models (metadata) with others systems,  but we don't know how often this model changes (from one version to other) and if these changes are careful for compatibility with the past and we don't have control over it. If exists explicit support for integrating models with the enterprise information, it would be more confortable trying this approach.

Are there features or plans or approachs or anything else in the direction of supporting integration of the models with other information in EA?

Today is there any way of making customized queries like "what are the classes in my model which has some relation with Company class and has a tagged value XXX" or something like that? Plans for that? It would be a starting point...

Thanks,
Gladstone.

P.S.: Oh! I'm sorry about my baaad english!  

[thomaskilian]

You must not be concerned about database changes. They are few and when you upgrade, your models will be converted to the new format automatically.

Regarding the infomation retriealv. You should investigate the Find function of EA. It allows even SQL to be performed inside the tool.

[Bruno.Cossi]

Hi,

as Thomas has said, the model changes rarely, however to avoid possible issues, you may want to look into the Automation Interface, essentially a COM API to Enterprise Architect. Even if the underlying database changes, it is likely that the API stays the same.

Bruno