Focal Point™

Products

Focal Point

Focal Point provides the following features:

• Application portfolio management
• IT portfolio management
• Product delivery management
• Project portfolio management
• Product management
• Harvesting techniques:
  • Web-based portal for input by employees or customers
  • Excel import/export
  • Microsoft Word import
  • Email import
• Analysis techniques:
  • Pairwise comparison
  • Investment analysis
  • Financial planning using time grid attribute
• Dashboard charts:
  • Roadmaps and gantt charts
    • Gantt chart histogram
  • Bubble chart
    • Stacked XY or bubble charts
  • Bar chart
    • Stacked bar chart
      • Ranking schemes
• Pie chart
• Radar chart
• Waterfall chart

System Architect

System Architect base product provides the following features:

• TOGAF
• Business Motivation Model (BMM)
• BPMN 2.0
• Logical and physical data modeling
• Data flow diagramming
• Capability maps, strategy maps and balanced scorecards
• UML
• SOA design
• XML design
• Reporting system including dozens of pre-written reports
• Dashboard capabilities
• SA compare
• Customizable metamodel
• Real-time multi-user capabilities
• Microsoft SQL Server Express for stand-alone work; users deploy full-blown Microsoft SQL Server to network for multi-user use

Add-ons:

• DoDAF 2, NAF 3, MODAF 1.2, DoDAF 1.5 ABM
• FEAF 2
• SA XT live web architecture capabilities
• SA Publisher architecture website generation capabilities
• SA Simulator to simulate and optimize process flows
• SA ERP to harvest ERP systems

System Architect - Focal Point integration

The following mapping-of-data capabilities are provided between the tools:

• Map System Architect definitions and properties to Focal Point modules and attributes, respectively
• Map System Architect definitions and properties to Focal Point criteria and attributes, respectively
• Map Focal Point modules and attributes to System Architect definitions and properties, respectively
• Map Focal Point criteria and attributes to System Architect definitions and properties, respectively
• Both products have customizable metamodels - so you can extend each to accommodate your architecture types and property types

Mapping provided:

System Architect	Focal Point
Encyclopedia	Workspace
Encyclopedia Workspace	Workspace
Definition	Module, Criteria
Property	Attribute
Access Control Feature	View

OSLC integration

Integration to link an artifact in System Architect to an artifact in Focal Point, via the OSLC CM specification.