Panorama 360 for Insurance and Wealth Management has a new website with new offerings and services. InsuranceFrameworks.com offers the most complete set of reference material, called Panorama 360, to the Insurance and Wealth Management industry, globally. Panorama 360 allows organizations to plan, design, develop and manage organizations, processes and technology.

On the website, we provide an import file to Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect with Enterprise Capability model, Enterprise Business Architecture Framework, information Models, an Organizational Integration map and more than 35 core business processes. Not only do we have an import file for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, we have added online courses that explain how Panorama 360 works so you can get the most out of your Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect tool. 

1. Architecture Frameworks (4.5 hours)
2. Business Process Models (4.5 hours)

The Panorama 360 Enterprise Business Architecture Framework and Business Process Models courses are also offered live-online or on your premises. 

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You find standard SQL somehow old, limited, difficult to learn and has a lot of dialects? You think a Compiler can find a lot of your typos, Then give LINQ to SQL a try. You have two possibilities:

• LINQPad  as an interactive query and debugging tool, database independent, C#, F#, VB
• Develop your Add-In with LINQ to SQL

The main advantages of LINQ for SQL are:

• Database independent
• Combines the benefits of SQL like and Code (C#, F#, VB)
• IntelliSense, Autocomplete, let the Compiler find your typos
• Powerful Debug as you know from C# & Co.
• LINQ provides a rich Eco-System (SQL, XML to name a few)

The LINQPad:

Ready to use Scratchpad to run, debug and visualize your Find and Debug for all your EA Databases. Show the code for the above grid:

IntelliSense, Autocomplete:

Let the Compiler find your typos.

Export to Excel:

Steps with LINQPad:

• Create a new connection to your EA Database
• Assign the connection to the query at hand

Look inside:

• Combine queries and Code
• EA Databases supported
• Arbitrary complex queries without the limitations of SQL
• Edit, Debug, Visualize
• C#, F#, VB, LINQ (XML, SQL,..)

Add-In with LINQ to SQL:

You find two examples to tinker with in AddInSimple (part of hoTools). In essence:

• Determine Database and connection string
• Run LINQ query to DataTable
• Output DataTable to EA Model Search
• Enjoy

The results:

Start with AddinSimple and EAExample.eap.

Control Code:

The Query:

Summary:

LINQ to SQL is the solution for complex queries:

• Interactive query tool LINPad
• In your Add-In to easily handle complex queries database independent
• Database independent
• IntelliSense and AutoComplete
• Compiler verifies against EA Database (no typos, type safe)
• Comprehensive debug features

From viewpoint EA user:

• Find in EA - everything without SQL limitations
• Verify your EA models
• Make metrics of your EA models

Write it once and use it for all your EA databases - regardless of location or type. Just connect your query with the new Database.

References:

• AddInSimple to show the basics
• LINQPad for SQL
• LINQPad for command line, call from EA
• LINQPad predicate builder
• LINQPad Tips & Tricks by Dan Clarke
• LINQ to SQL driver
• Tips&Tricks
• Implementation

This and more you can see at https://github.com/Helmut-Ortmann/EnterpriseArchitect_hoTools/wiki/LinqToSql.

I appreciate your experiences and feedback!

Kind regards,

Helmut