I am creating an interface between ARIS and Enterprise Architect.
Focus is on using data from ARIS in EA, the other way round might be of interest in future.
I am quiet new to the tools, but have some experience in UML and other modeling languages and creating interfaces and extensions to modeling tools.
ARIS is a more or less business focussed modeling tool with its own proprietary notation (EEPC) and rather poor focus on requirements engineering and software development, which we have to use for process definition from the business side. Enterprise Architect is the tool we use on the IT side.
I have some work done on mapping the specific ARIS Notation to the standard notation used in Enterprise Architect, which both contains a general mapping and a mapping needed for our customized ARIS notation.
On the technical side, I started with using standard techniques to transform a given ARIS XML Export (which comes with its own DTD) to an XML file, that I will be able to import to Enterprise Architect. What I did not solve up to now is a strategy of synchronizing when content changes in both tools, but this seems to me as quiet solvable.
I have to reasons for my post: The first one is, that reading the Forum Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools, I learned that Developers on EA choose the automation interface for generating packages and models in EA and do not use the XML interface. I would appreciate any feedback, wether I should rethink my design decision to use direct XML-Transformations.
The second reason is to get a feedback wether the topic of creating such an interface is of interest for this community. If this is the case, I would post some detailed ideas that could be discussed.
Sascha