Enterprise Analyst 1.0

Enterprise Analyst 1.0 offers an effective tool which helps you to validate, simulate and document future system domain models. The tool allows them to concentrate on the core of the system domain logic and is able to test the system during the analysis phase.

With Enterprise Analyst, your UML model is a step closer to your source code. 

Major Benefits:

1. UML compatibility
   • Models and diagrams, consumed or generated by EAn are highly reusable. EAn users are not sticked to the tool and all the knowledge obtained by using it is "reusable" out of EAn context, since EAn uses standard notation.
   • This feature additionaly makes it easy to learn how to use EAn.
2. Implementation platform independency
   • Enterprise Analyst does not imply any other tool or implementation platform. On the contrary, EAn permits to developer to fully concentrate on the domain relevant aspects during the analysis, and capture the domain knowledge in a durable manner. EAn model is both strong base for current system design and any future system restructuring.
3. Model compilation
   • Even standard notation used in a UML models, does not garantee absence of syntax errors. This is actually one of the biggest problems of the modern UML tools. EAn compiles your models and checks their syntaxis (something like programming language compiler). This will remove a lot of possible system defects right in their root, instead of propagating them to testing phase.
4. Model simulation
   • Even 100% syntactically correct UML models rarely cover completely and correctly system requeriments space. Thanks to EAn, there is no need to wait a testing phase to detect those errors. Developers can simulate domains early in the project and fine tune both its structure and behavior.
5. Object diagram generation
   • Object diagram capture system snap-shots in run-time. They can help in putting emphasis on some aspect of the system, increasing documentation quality. Note that all the object diagrams generated by EAn are derived from the previosly compiled and executed model, and are 100% consistent with it.
6. Documentation validation
   • This feature guarantees completeness of the model specifications. Several levels of rigor are available, corresponding to model maturity and analysis phase in the moment of validation (draft, approved model, etc.) 

 Major Features:

1. UML model integration
   • Enterprise Analyst is an Enterprise Architect’s (EA) add-in. EA is a well-known UML modeling tool and EAn uses strongly the EA’s API, reusing and also complementing this tool’s basic functionality .
2. Class model compilation
   • UML Class model standard notation
   • • Enterprise Analyst analyses and compiles the class model assuring its compliance with the precisely defined UML compatible notation. The UML elements supported by EAn are: class, inheritance (single and multiple), association (including aggregation and composition), association class, etc.
       
   • Customizable compilation messages
   • • Enterprise Analyst provides a modeled with a precise feed-back about his class model compilation results. Just like with a usual programming language compiles, this feature gives a modeler the possibility to quickly and efficiently fix his class model syntactical errors.
3. Class model execution
   • Object level operations (UML 2.0 actions)
   • • Enterprise Analyst permits a modeler to instantiate the objects from the model classes, to link them with each other, to delete them, update the attribute values, etc.
       
   • Automatic model constraints validation
   • • Enterprise Analyst validates the model constraints permanently during the execution, detecting every possible model inconsistency.
   • Incosistency diagnostics and resolution
   • • Enterprise Analyst helps the modeler with the inconsistency diagnostics and it proposes  the corresponding resolutions. This way, a modeler can fix the execution problems or even detect some higher, class level problems, get back to a model and improve it.
       
   • UML object diagrams generations
   • • Enterprise Analyst generates automatically the UML object diagrams that correspond to a current execution process. This provides a powerful model execution visualization tool.
       
4. Class model specification validation
   • Template: Enterprise Analyst comes with a templates needed to specify a class model, as well as the specification completeness validation feature.
     

Requirements:

• Intel® Pentium® Processor
• Microsoft® Windows XP or Windows 2003
• 128 MB of RAM
• 70 MB of available hard disk space
• Enterprise Architect 6.1 (release 789 o newer)