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General Board / Re: Ontology support limited to UML?

« on: April 10, 2021, 07:56:15 am »

Hi Sunshine.
Very glad you asked. I am trying to avoid having different domain architects use the same language when there are existing languages for their domains.

So what I am hoping for is they stay in their language of choice in Enterprise Architect then export in OWL or RDF for another tool. I read an old Enterprise Architect manual
and was not sure that could be done.

Thanks and I hope that helps. :-)

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General Board / Re: Showing operational environment associations...

« on: April 10, 2021, 07:49:49 am »

Yeah. I was trying to avoid getting accused of asking too much one one thread. :-)

Thanks!

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General Board / Re: Showing relationships between domains...

« on: April 10, 2021, 07:46:29 am »

Thanks all for the replies.

I was looking for Sparx EA to Essential EA flow of Architecture info. My understanding is use of RDF or/and OWL should work but there were no details in the responses I have seen previously.

The other requirement for a tool from our Chief Architect is connecting the domains so management and the architects can see the dependencies better.

Finally, connecting architecture in production environments (hopefully QA or UAT also) to models created in something like Enterprise Architect. I call this round trip validation.
I expect it would be more abstract or Enterprise level and not of course UML or design level.

Getting data from Sparx EA to Essential EA in OWL or RDF also would help with reporting quality and adherence to Standards and Compliance. You would hopefully
get more explicit info which works better for reporting.

I hope that helps.

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General Board / Re: Showing operational environment associations...

« on: April 10, 2021, 07:07:39 am »

Yep, I read your other response. But this is what I am recommending.

When moving to the cloud talk with say Microsoft. Find from them what tool they recommend for operationally tracking and diagramming the cloud and what their future vision regarding round tripping meaning architecture. Since organizations are using platforms (not custom apps) which abstracts and simplifies tracking architecture or making diagrams. The Architect's world is shrinking down to SaaS and serverless cloud solutions. Also, cloud service brokers even abstracts more away from detailed Architecture.

That is my observation and I have designed microarchitectures in the past. I may be wrong but that is the general trend I see in Architecture and design.

Again many thanks for your replies!

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General Board / Re: Showing relationships between domains...

« on: April 10, 2021, 06:55:10 am »

Thanks Querty!

I am a Enterprise Solution Architect so working cross domains is common thus the question. I work with the Chief Architect and he was wanting the answer (and myself also). We are trying to determine if Enterprise Architect is what we should use. So far as you said it is good for siloed or domain engineering. Problem is our CIO (and CIO's I have known over 20yrs in IT) ask the same questions about the Enterprise like what is connected to what and what is it for, what happens if I make a change here to all the domains (business, application, data, integration, security ect.). I work for a state agency and the head of all architecture for the state bought Essential EA which can import OWL and RDFS data from other Architects then apply templates to the data to create diagrams and very nice, useful reports.

So that is what I am doing and my goal. I hope that helps.
I am the curious person which who raises good questions.

Many Thanks for the prompt reply!

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General Board / Showing operational environment associations...

« on: April 10, 2021, 04:11:59 am »

Hi All,
I need to show what is in our production environment and link that to architectural documents. Can Enterprise Architect do this somehow? Does it or can it read a CMDB and link architecture documents created by EA? This is for verification or validation or round tripping the architecture process.

Any thoughts appreciated!

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General Board / Showing relationships between domains...

« on: April 10, 2021, 04:04:16 am »

Hi All,
I am curious how one in Enterprise Architect can see relationships between domains. For example how does one see the relationship between business process and applications and applications to infrastructure? Would that be some sort of link or some sort of merged view? And can that be exported to be viewed in another tool like Orbus Essential EA?

Thanks!

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General Board / Ontology support limited to UML?

« on: April 09, 2021, 09:50:18 am »

Hi,
I am trying to understand the Ontology support in EA. I understand UML can get exported as OWL and RDF? What about other diagrams such as business ones? We may get a requirement to export diagrams as OWL or RDF to input into Essentials EA which takes Ontology objects.

Thanks!