Sparx Systems

The inaugural CEN/TC 287 Annual Award for Academic Excellence within INSPIRE, was awarded on the 29th June at the 2011 INSPIRE Conference in Edinburgh.

Sparx Systems presented the award to the winner Antoine Gourlay, from Ecole Centrale de Nantes, and his mentor Dr. Erwan Bocher.

This Award is an annual recognition of excellence within the INSPIRE community and an award for academic contributions to the development and adoption of geospatial standards through the use of Enterprise Architect, itself an award winning modeling tool from Sparx Systems.

The project from Ecole Centrale de Nantes was chosen as it deals with the implementation of a web processing service in a concrete use case - using an existing SDI and GIS to facilitate a new GI specification (WPS) in a practical way.

It demonstrates originality and technical quality and applies the INSPIRE principles for an application on a local level, while implementing a new specification with clearly presented results.

Information about entering the 2012 awards will be published on the Community site later this year.

 "Think It Through"

Sparx Systems is pleased to announce the official release of Enterprise Architect 9. This milestone release includes hundreds of new features to help you work smarter. Check out the release notes for more details.

 Here are just some of the release highlights:

• Tools to Think Together - Personal Manager, Gantt Charts, Model Mail and Project Tasks.

 

• Plan Your Project - Project Calendar to schedule meetings, visualize project resources and monitor deadlines.

 

• Build and Discover - New Win 32 User Interface design tools support prototyping.

 

• Consider and Evaluate - Hand Drawn and Whiteboard rendering can elicit feedback and encourage creativity.

 

• Test, Evaluate and Analyze - Test Points, Model Simulation and enhanced Visual Execution Analysis.

   

• Create Models, Architectures and Strategies - BPMN 2.0, SysML 1.2 and SOMF 2.0.

   

• From Concept to Design - New Round-trip Engineering support for C# 4.0 and VB.NET 10.

• Take Control and Stay Focused - Significant Usability Enhancements with streamlined windows, dialogs and menus.

 

• And so much more ...

A for a full list of features, see: www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/9/index.html

Registered users with a current subscription can download Enterprise Architect 9 from: www.sparxsystems.com/registered

A 30 day trial is also available for immediate download: www.sparxsystems.com/try

The IIBA's upcoming webinar on Process Modeling will feature a presentation from Sparx Systems COO, Tom O'Reilly. The Vendor Showcase, established to promote tools that help perform business analysis duties more effectively, is open to everyone in the BA community. We welcome you to attend.

Topic: Process Modeling.

Time: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. EDT (UTC/GMT -4 hours).

Sparx Systems is pleased to announce a public release of Enterprise Architect 9, Beta 3 - packed with new features and tools to help you take control of your projects.

Download Enterprise Architect 9, Beta 3 today!

Full release details are available from:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/betas.html

We encourage registered users to submit their feedback via the beta feedback page:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/registered/reg_bug_report_beta.html

Sparx Systems is pleased to announce a public release of Enterprise Architect 9, Beta 2 - packed with new features and tools to help you take control of your projects.

Download Enterprise Architect 9, Beta 2 today!

Full release details are available from:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/betas.html

We encourage registered users to submit their feedback via the beta feedback page:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/registered/reg_bug_report_beta.html

Sparx Systems was announced by Programmer's Paradise as the winner of the 2010 "Riding the Crest" Award in the Application Lifecycle Management: Design/Modeling category.  The awards, announced on the 30th of March, recognized Enterprise Architect as one of the best selling products within the vast catalogue of software offered by Programmers Paradise. 

View the Press Release and Announcement Page for more information.

Sparx Systems is pleased to announce the beta release of Enterprise Architect 9. This milestone release introduces hundreds of productivity enhancements and new technologies such as the new Personal manager, Project Calendar, Hand Drawn rendering, BPMN 2 support and much, much more.

Registered Enterprise Architect users can download the beta Today.

Full release details are available from:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/betas.html

Highlights of the release:

• Personal Manager can send Model Mail and track project milestones.

• New User Interface design tools support model-driven prototyping for win32 applications.

• Project Calendar to schedule meetings, record staff leave and better utilize project resources.

• Hand Drawn diagram style helps to identify and evolve draft designs.

• Support for new technologies including BPMN 2.0, BPEL 2.0, SysML 1.2 and SOMF 2.1.

• Model Generics and Templates for C#, C++, Java and VB.NET.

• Enhanced Visual Execution Analysis and tools for developers.

• New Round-trip Engineering support for C# 4.0 and VB.NET 10.

• Added support for Third Party Add-In licensing using Enterprise Architect's license key management system.

• Significant Usability Enhancements including streamlined menus, improved access to element properties and better management of diagram tabs.

• And so much more ...
  
  

We encourage registered users to submit their feedback via the beta feedback:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/registered/reg_bug_report_beta.html

Enterprise Architect, the full life cycle, UML modeling tool from Sparx Systems, is made freely* available to the GEOSS community via the Component and Service Registry. Licences can be accessed here http://www.sparxsystems.com/enterprise-architect-sdo.php

This technology contribution supports the “data sharing” foundation of GEOSS, and enables shared, integrated vision, between the nine Societal Benefit Areas across geographic and domain boundaries. Accomplishing this vision using today's disparate systems requires establishing an internationally coordinated operational framework to facilitate interoperability and harmonization. Enterprise Architect supports synergies between systems, and standards in separate environments can be modelled in a single tool, for accurate sharing of standards information with minimal time delay.

The UML 2.3 powered, team-based modeling environment encompasses the full product development lifecycle, with high-performance visual tools for business modeling, systems engineering, enterprise architecture, requirements management, software design, code generation, testing and more.

* Conditions apply

Sparx Systems announces that it will provide support to the Joint Research Centre(JRC) by making licenses of Enterprise Architect available to the Spatial Data Infrastructure(SDI) unit.  JRC is developing the legal acts and guidelines for the technical components of INSPIRE, delivering integrated spatial information services to European policy makers.

For further information, please read the full press release.