System Architect®

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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
  • System Architect 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

DoDAF add-in

The DoDAF add-in is enabled with a DoDAF license. It provides the following additional features to the base System Architect product:

  • DoDAF 2
    • AV-1 thru AV-2 - all views
    • CV-1 thru CV-7 - capability views
    • OV-1 thru OV-6 - operational views (including BPMN for OV-5 and OV-6c)
    • DIV-1 thru DIV-3 - data information views
    • SV-1 thru SV-10 - systems views
    • SvcV-1 thru SvcV-10 - services views
    • StdV-1 thru StdV-2 - standards views
    • PV-1 thru PV-3 - project views
    • Fit-for-purpose views
  • Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)
    • Operational views
    • Project views
    • Resource views
    • Security views
    • Standards views
    • Strategy views
    • Services views
    • Summary views
    • Fit-for-purpose views
    • DoDAF 1.5 standard
    • DoDAF 1.5 Activity Based Method (ABM)

FEAF add-in

The Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) add-in is enabled with a FEAF license. It provides the following additional features to the base System Architect product:

  • FEAF 2.0
    • Automatic load of Consolidated Reference Model (CRM)
    • Business Reference Model (BRM)
    • Application Reference Model (ARM)
    • Data Reference Model (DRM)
    • Infrastructure Reference Model (IRM)
    • Performance Reference Model (PRM)
    • Security Reference Model (SRM)
    • FEAF 2.0 matrices

Support for consolidated performance method reports

  • FEAF 1.0 (formerly called integrated Reference Model Architect (iRMA) in System Architect)
    • Support for FEAF 1.0 Consolidated Reference Model (CRM) with utilities for automatic import of the latest CRM from whitehouse.gov, automatic hierarchy creation of the CRM, alignment of investments to the CRM, matrices, and reports

NAF add-in

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) add-in is enabled with a NAF license. It provides the following additional features to the base System Architect product:

  • NAF 3.0
    • NAV-1 thru AV-2 - all views
    • NCV-1 thru NCV-7 - capability
    • NOV-1 thru NOV-7 - operational views
    • NSV-1 thru NSV-12 - systems and services views
    • NSOV-1 thru NSOV-5 - services views
    • NPV-1 thru NPV-2 - programme views
    • NTV-1 thru NTV-2 - technology views
  • NAF 1.0
    • Constituent views of the older NAF 1.0, used mostly to open older architectures

MODAF add-in

The Ministry of Defense Architecture Framework (MODAF) add-in is enabled with a MODAF license. It provides the following additional features to the base System Architect product:

  • MODAF 1.2
    • AV-1 thru AV-2 - all views
    • CV-1 thru CV-7 - capability
    • OV-1 thru OV-7 - operational views
    • SV-1 thru SV-11 - systems views
    • SOV-1 thru SOV-5 - services views
    • StV-1 thru StV-6 - strategic capability views
    • TV-1 thru TV-2 - technology views
    • AcV-1 thru AcV-2 - acquisition views

System Architect XT

System Architect Xtended Team (XT) is a thin-client version of System Architect. It is a separate install to System Architect, but allows users to work int/view the same repository as users working with System Architect on the network - but with System Architect XT the users are accessing the repository via a web client. System Architect XT is provided in the following license formats:

  • System Architect XT read/write
    • Browse the repository via a tree Explorer
    • Add/edit/delete definitions
    • View and zoom in/out of all types of diagrams
    • Click on symbols to open their definitions
    • Draw/edit BPMN and Org Chart diagram types
    • View report dashboards served up live
    • Create reports via a text editor
  • System Architect XT readonly
    • View live repository information
    • Browse the repository via a tree Explorer
    • View definitions (readonly)
    • View and zoom in/out of all types of diagrams
    • Click on symbols to open their definitions
    • View report dashboards served up live

System Architect Publisher

The System Architect Publisher add-on enables you to:

  • Generate a sophisticated, interactive, static website of the enterprise architecture so that an unlimited number of people may view the architecture on the web or intranet
  • Group reports that you have created in System Architect, and publish them to the website, using css and xsl stylesheets
  • Browse the architecture in a tree explorer
  • View diagrams in SVG mode, where you can zoom in/out and click on symbols to open definitions
  • View diagrams in JPG mode for quick access across slow networks
  • View sophisticated reports that are the output of multiple reports to a single html page
  • Save any page to Word, Excel, or PDF
  • Email a reference to a page
  • Create links for output pages to Microsoft Sharepoint or other intranet/document management systems
  • Click on links in the architecture artifacts of the website to other sources of record

System Architect Simulator

The System Architect Simulator add-on enables you to:

  • Simulate and animate BPMN and IDEF3 process flows
  • Predict and highlight bottlenecks and utilization issues
  • Specify resource profiles and shift calendars to accurately portray operations
  • Calculate costs per transaction and per end-to-end process
  • Calculate operational risk values for regulatory requirements
  • Calculate expected failure rates and Six Sigma ratings
  • Run automatic optimization of process flows for best use of resources

System Architect ERP

The System Architect Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) add-in enables you to reverse engineer, examine, and selectively import the table structure of the supported ERP systems (below) into a logical data model in System Architect. You may also use the tool to reverse engineer the application components and processes that the tables use. The supported ERP systems are:

  • Salesforce.com
  • SAP
  • Siebel
  • JD Edwards
  • Peoplesoft