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The Challenge of Complex System Design

With software applications depending on more, increasingly complex functional and content relationships from a variety of sources, establishing a clear vision of a system's design is a significant challenge.

Application architects face three distinct challenges:

Easily organize and visualize all required components of a system design
Collaborate with project teams and get projects kicked-off quickly
Analyze, measure, and validate project progress and completed work

Underlying these challenges is an expectation for compliance with industry standards, such as UML® 2.0, XMI for UML 2.0, Object Constraint Language (OCL) and query/views/transformations (QVT).

It is essential to understand how a newly designed application will interact with a potential universe of external systems.

ER/Studio Software Architect jumpstarts applications with industry-standard patterns and architecture to track metrics and pass audits.

ER/Studio Software Architect is built on the UML® 2.0 speciﬁcation enabling organizations to adopt a model driven approach to their software design and analysis. Architects and developers are better able to specify, visualize, and document models of entire software systems and increase the automation of tasks around software modeling.

ER/Studio Software Architect provides software developers with a powerful capability to jumpstart projects through predeﬁned patterns and templates which can signiﬁcantly improve the design and development of high quality software, leading to reduced costs, and greater system adaptability.

Architects and developers can better automate the quality assurance and design of object-oriented software with audits and metrics that can be easily deﬁned, saved, and reused.

Developers can easily create external documentation for open projects, or from the command line, using pre-deﬁned or custom templates. Track projects, document pattern and proﬁle deﬁnitions, or output the results of model audits into a number of different formats including RTF, HTML, TXT and PDF.

General Features
Eclipse Platform	Based on the universal Eclipse 3.4 platform
Query/View/Transform	Standard language to transform UML, BPMN, data models and custom model types
Project Workspace and Packaged Elements	Projects for pattern definition, profile definition and UML 2.0. Group elements and store diagrams in Logical and physical packages
Model Shortcuts and Hyperlinking	Reuse elements in multiple model diagrams with shortcuts or Hyperlink from diagrams to browse other system artifacts
Import/Export	Interoperability via import and export using XMI, MDL and MDX
Project Documentation	External documentation in RTF, HTML, TXT, PDF and XSL-FO formats
Modeling Features
Support for UML Specification	Supports UML 2.0 to visualize, specify, construct and document artifacts of distributed objects
UML in Color	Model in color with support for roles, moment-interval, Mi-detail, party, place, thing and description
UML 2.0 Diagrams	Support highly used UML 2.0 diagrams and notations including activity, use, component, composite, deployment, state machine and interaction diagrams
UML Profiles	Pre-installed profiles available for projects such as stereotypes, palette contributions, extensions and contributions
EMF and UML Model Compare and Merge	EMF and UML two/three-way comparisons in tree view. Export results to EMF XMI file. Integrate with version control systems to compare and merge shared models
Template Elements and Generics	Show templates, template signatures, parameters and template bindings in a UML 2.0 diagram
OCL Support	Object Constraint Language (OCL) 2.0 support for syntax highlighting, error validation, code completion and model queries
Design Patterns	Stock patterns available supporting Gang of Four and custom design patterns
Model Audits & Metrics	OCL-based model audits and metrics support model inspections that can be easily defined, saved and reused
Version Control	Supports version control systems that can be integrated into Eclipse

Benefits Summary

Model driven architecture & standards
Jumpstart applications with industry-standard patterns
Ensure model quality with audits and metrics
Improve project tracking with documentation generation

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