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Suggestions and Requests / OWL RDF Technology Integration for EA

« on: July 10, 2007, 04:54:43 am »

It would be useful if Sparx could develop an Integration Add-In for Semantic Net(OWL RDF) Technology workbenches like Protege

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Suggestions and Requests / BPMN Model Simulation & BPEL Generation

« on: July 10, 2007, 04:45:29 am »

Good news BPMN is integrated into the core of v7.0.

BPEL generation will enable EA catch up with some competition.

Model Element simulation is required .

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: BPMN element improvements

« on: July 06, 2007, 09:28:45 am »

This gets my vote, too.

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Suggestions and Requests / BPMN Simulation & XPDL

« on: June 30, 2007, 12:37:10 pm »

I would like to see model simulation for BPMN models and the generation of XPDL (based on the WFMC XPDL specification) from the model

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Suggestions and Requests / Attribute Mapping

« on: June 30, 2007, 12:58:15 pm »

I use a top down approach to developing an XML vocabulary from logical class models.

Each attribute in a class is remodelled in a separate package (XSDChema) as a global element.

Different persons working in a team update the diferent models and there is a requirement to ensure that every global element defined has a corresponding arribute defined in the class models.

There are three potential solutions to this problem:

1. Visual Check. This is unworkable as the schema grows in size
2. Use the Matrix Facility to map the global elements against the attributes defined in classes. The matrix does not currently support attributes.
3. Enable attributes to be tagged as global classes and this should facilitate direct generation of eleements from this model. This is the better solution.

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Suggestions and Requests / SOA Data Services (CRUD Matrix)

« on: June 30, 2007, 12:43:23 pm »

I have partitioned an enterprise into a number of business domains. These domains contribute to life cycle changes of Business Objects.

A feature is required to enable the use of the Matrix facility to visually show which domain Create, Reference, Update and Delist a Business Object.

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Suggestions and Requests / Extensible Form for Class Attributes

« on: April 11, 2007, 11:20:33 am »

I am working to develop an enterprise business object model (conceptual data model) as a basis for the business glossary (data semantics standardisation for systems interoperability).

For each data element (an attribute), I want to record the name of the business concept and other properties as specified in the ISO 11179-3 standard for data naming.

To achieve this, I need to be able to entend the fields for my attributes. This means an extension to the product metamodel or some other mechanism like the dynamic loading of user-defined metamodel file at the start of execution of EA.

I apreciate all ideas.

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Static Business Rule Documentation and Reporti

« on: April 11, 2007, 08:01:13 am »

Thank you, Barry.

You are right.

It is the conbination of two classes and one relationship type which form a sentence that comprises a business rule.

Consider an airport check-in scenario where Class 1 is a Passenger, Class 2 is Bag (Luggage)and Class 3 is an Airline Agent. For the check-in scenario, A Passenger may submit zero, one or more Bags. The reverse statement, A Bag must belong to at least one or more Passengers is a critical business rule to airport security otherwise, the Bag will not be loaded to the Aircraft.

Likewise, An Airline Agent may weigh one or more Bags is a statement that expresses a familiar business rule. The reverse statement, A Bag is checked-in by one and only one Airline Agent is another rule that may /may not be true in that domain.

Thank you for your the RTF template. I will inform you of progress.

kind regards

salayande

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Suggestions and Requests / Static Business Rule Documentation and Reporting

« on: April 10, 2007, 09:10:45 am »

The format of a  static business rule is <<statement subject>> relationship or verb << statement object>>.

When documented in a CASE tool, there are two rules, the forward rule and the reverse.

The forward rule is <<Class 1>> relationship X<<Class 2>>
The reverse is <<Class 2>> relationship Y<<Class 1>>

Sometimes where the forward rule is true, the reverse may not be true. hence the need to articulate the two rules explicitly.


The subject and objects are Nouns modelled as classes in Class diagrams.

To verify the quality of a data model, we often have to generate these business rules from the data model documentation which are presented to the business domain experts for verification. These models validate the conceptual correctness of the data model and is often used as a user acceptance criteria on projects.

Old data modeling tools like Erwin enable this representation and the IE notation in EA should support this feature.

I need to create these statements from using EA document generator. Is there any RTF Document generator expert out there who can help.

Please, help me.

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Suggestions and Requests / Data Quality Management IP-UML

« on: March 07, 2007, 01:34:53 pm »

The Area of Total Quality Management is a pain point for most organisations. Work has been done bt researchers at MIT (Richard Wang et al)to develop a process (Information Product Map, IP-MAP)for managing data as a manufactured product. Recent work was done to align this framework to UML metamodel by suggesting a profile(IP-UML).

This is a great opportunity for Information Analysts, Data Strategy Managers, Data Architects and anyone else interested in data quality/data harmonization to apply the same notation (UML) used for data modeling for data quality requirements modeling.

I am suggesting that SparxSystems consider developing Add-Ins to support this work as it is such support that further separates drawing tools from CASE tools.

I also want to add that Sparxsystems should promote the Add-In developed by researchers at the University of Austria to support UMM (an ISO variant of RUP). UMM is increasingly becoming important for the analysis and modeling of collaborative B-2-B systems for International Trade (UN/CEFACT). There are actually few tools that support this important area.

Segun Alayande
Data Architect
British Airports Authority

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General Board / Re: Enterprise Architect for SharePoint

« on: June 15, 2012, 06:26:01 am »

I raised a feature request for an MDG Technology a while back. Its possible that in te absence of other requests its had no priority

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General Board / Re: Rapid modeling of class attributes and relatio

« on: January 10, 2012, 07:02:01 am »

or you can go to the Sparxsystems community web site, download an Excel application that enables import of classes and attributes. Your manager may populate this spreadsheet and you may then import the objects..

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General Board / Re: Zachman Example Model

« on: December 18, 2011, 10:38:32 am »

The system described by the framework is the enterprise!

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General Board / Re: Class Model import into Systems Architect

« on: November 22, 2011, 03:06:50 am »

What version of SA are you importing the EA XMI to?
The reason I'm asking is because prior to 10.4 XMI was an afterthought in SA and a previous employer spent a lot of money to enable import of Rational model into SA. The SA XMI export was also not up to scratch. I dont know what the situation is like right now but if I may advice you; forget SA as it has no future.

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General Board / Re: MOF Diagrams - what use are they?

« on: April 08, 2010, 12:43:41 pm »

OK