Business Rules Modelling Support in EA

[areaba]

Is there anyone else out there who would like Business Rules support inside EA to develop Concept / Fact Models, Policy Charters, decision tables etc.
If anyone from Sparx Systems is listening, please look into this. If you are already doing it could Sparx please hurry up.
My company has been adopting the BR approach in our work for clients and we've been on EA since 7x. We love EA but we've been very frustrated trying to shoehorn BR concepts using UML notation eg Class toolset for concept modelling etc.

[philchudley]

What licence edition of EA are you using? If you have the Business Engineering (or Ultimate) edition, then Business Rule Modelling is already there.

It may not be a perfect match for what you are describing, but as far as I recall it is decision table based and links activity flows with business rules requirements. It has been a while since I last looked at it, but section 8.3.3 in the PDF EA User Guide has a great deal of information in this.

This feature is not available in the corporate edition

Cheers

Phil

[Huub]

Unfortunately Sparx doesn't seem to offer a lot in the area of business rules & business decisions. After browsing the whole night I found two links that I'll include underneath. The reason I started was because I wondered if interfacing with tools like Agile Designer (now part of CA) or Hexawise would be possible.

Coarse grained: DMN Decision Models in EA
http://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/12.1/business_engineering/decision_models.html
Export possible to CSV + code engineering

Fine grained: Business Rules in EA:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/12.1/business_engineering/modeling_business_rules.html
NO Export possible to CSV + very limited code engineering capability (only to C++)

[BGMarc]

This feature is not available in the corporate edition

I pay for a personal license and have been responsible for influencing a significant number of organisations (mostly public sector agencies at teh state and federal level in Australia) to adopt EA as a requirements engineering and architecture modelling/solution design environment. I cannot afford and do not need to personally own the Suite editions. Corporate is my limit and meets 99% of my needs.

My question is, can the Business Rules MDG be purchased independent of the suites?

[Eve]

My question is, can the Business Rules MDG be purchased independent of the suites?

No.

[jfzouain]

Hi

I am too in the same position as all of you and I pay for a Corporate license and have been responsible for influencing a significant number of organizations to adopt EA as a modelling solution. Corporate is my limit and meets 100% of my needs.

I have adapted the Corporate edition to manage all my business rules and have adapted the same methodology to all these organizations that I have worked with, if I recall only two of those organizations have purchased 200 and 150 Corporate  licenses in one purchase each.

There is a way to do it, not as sophisticated as EA does it with tables, but it does the work and my clients have loved it.
How I did it, is all explained in my eBook, it will be a long thread if I would explain it here.
Get the eBook to find out.

https://leanpub.com/uml-erpworkshop