Data Migration from Aris to Ea

[zalbina]

Hello,

I'm facing the big task to transfer data from Aris models to EA and would like to come up with the right strategy how to do it with less troubles. Does anyone did it before? Did you use the xmi files or develope your own Add In or other options? Did you use xml file as an easiest way to transfer the data?

Really appreciate your help,

BR

[qwerty]

I just browsed my archive and could not find that Perl script I did long ago for a customer. Alas, I remember that ARIS had some export format which was easy to parse and you could map ARIS types to UML stereotypes (I created in a profile). IIRC it was a couple of days (a week or so) hacking to get the transfer right. It was some task to do once and after it was done the tool was no longer needed.

q.

[Geert Bellekens]

I agree with q. If there is no standard import/export tool, you might need to write your own migration tool.

In my experience this might be a task anywhere between a couple of days and a couple of weeks, depending on the level of perfection you want to achieve.

It's probably relatively easy to transfer a bunch of elements.
It might be a bit harder to transfer all relationships and properties.

Replicating the diagram in EA will definitely be the most difficult part.

Geert

[zalbina]

Thanks a lot to everyone who is paticipating in this discussion. I did figured out about writing our own tool for export/import purposes (the built-in Aris export format is not working properly each time) and I'm happy to hear that I'm on the right way but anyway if someone has any ideas and tips I will appreciate very much.

BR