Activity Based Costing

[sbockheim]

Does EA support Activity based costing?

Thanks,

Scott

[jeshaw2]

Are you asking about using EA for activity based costing of domain level activities such as a manufacturing process, or are you asking about cost accounting for software development projects driven by UML activities?

[sbockheim]

I am asking if EA supports Activity based costing on a business process (e.g., manfacturing). I know EA can model the process, add the metadata to each activity, and has a estimator for use cases. I am asking if there is a module or addon to perform ABC on activity diagrams/processes.

Thanks,

Scott

[sbockheim]

bump. Anyone know this answer?

[jeshaw2]

I was hoping Sparx Sales would chime in on this one.  I know what you are looking for, but I'm not aware of any EA add-on that will do it.  However, since the EA repository is a relational database one may access directly,  you could roll your own package if you wish.

[sbockheim]

Is the full EA data model published anywhere?

Scott

[«Midnight»]

Hi Scott,

No, there is not. But that shouldn't be (too much of) a problem.

Just connect to an EA project via ODBC - you can connect to another EAP file or a DBMS repository as you prefer - and import the data structure as you would any other schema.

I'll leave you to look that up in help if you've not done it yet.

The downside is that there is no documentation about the model, other than what you can glean from the SDK portion of the EA help file or user manual.

David

[sbockheim]

I have opened the model before and understand how I can reverse engineer it. My question was more to your second point of an explanation of the model and what each table/column is used for.

Thanks for the responses.

Scott