Author Topic: How are people integrating EA into confluence?  (Read 1535 times)

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How are people integrating EA into confluence?
« on: December 05, 2024, 09:35:47 pm »
So it looks like our organization uses confluence as a single source of truth. How are users integrating EA into their confluence sites? Are there low-cost options to doing this? Has anyone discovered creative ways to get the modeling benefits while working with Confluence in some way without using some add-on?

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Re: How are people integrating EA into confluence?
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2024, 10:39:51 pm »
I did a bit of research on the topic, and there are a few options

1. Integration with Prolaborate
2. Addin from a Spanish company
3. Use standard EA document generation to Word, and import those into EA.

We use option 3

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Re: How are people integrating EA into confluence?
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2024, 12:14:49 am »
You could also install WebEA and publish the links to the diagrams in Confluence.

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Re: How are people integrating EA into confluence?
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2024, 08:53:44 pm »
You could also install WebEA and publish the links to the diagrams in Confluence.

This simplistic 'pointer' option is a decent solution in many cases, although I agree it isn't technically integration.
If the Engineering team consider the model to be the true single source of truth for the design (which is sort of the point of MBSE), then putting links in Confluence encourages people to actually use the model rather than treating Confluence as a design tool*.
It's a bit more overhead to maintain than a true 'integration' solution like Prolaborate, but for small-scale projects (and to save the cost of buying Prolaborate) it might be workable in some cases.

* Overall, as an industry, we will benefit from people becoming more comfortable with using MBSE tools like EA rather than always defaulting to Confluence, text editors etc
Phil