EA earns its name with the Zachman MDG Technology

[salayande]

The release of the Zachman Framework has enabled the Sparxsystem Enterprise Architect tool earn its name.

It is acknowledged here that some Information & Enterprise Engineering tools (Visible Analyst and Systems Architect) have some of these capabilities. This MDG is useful without getting in the way of modelling.

The MDG tool is important as EA had historically been percieved as being a UML modeling tool in the same class as UModel and other similarly positioned CASE tools (Neil in Marketing has his work cut out to reposition EA).

The name "Enterprise Architect" had always suggested to me that the creator of the software  had a greater vision beyond UML modelling. It is becoming a solution framework for addressing enterprise architecture issues.

The inclusion of the Balanced Scorecard Modeling facility indicates that the team that envisioned and architected this MDG Technology are aware of latest thinking in the area of Enterprise Engineering (Clive Finklestein a.k.a The Father of Information Engineering).

I am thanking the Sparxsystem team for this product on behalf of other "Enterprise Engineers".

regards

Segun

[«Midnight»]

Well said Segun!

[dbax]

Well said indeed!
I was using EA to demonstrate to my architecture group some of the capabilities of EA at the enterprise architecture level and I started developing Zachman-like project template for that purpose. Sparx sure had my work cut out for me and thank them for that.
Great product becomes even greater.

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