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Wednesday, 20 July 2016 15:24
Do you need to deploy your Sparx TOGAF Architecture Repository right the first time?
Written by RamsayRMillar
We invite you to join Ramsay Millar, globally recognized TOGAF® Practitioner who has successfully deployed TOGAF® practices and 21 architecture repositories across organizations using Sparx Enterprise Architect. Ramsay distinguishes himself as an industry leader with his in-depth experience and highly practiced background in enterprise architecture, consulting, training, and course authorship. He has just released his newest ONLINE workshop, "Enterprise Architect for TOGAF Practitioners". Register Now! Sparx Enterprise Architect for TOGAF Practitioners
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Friday, 08 July 2016 17:44
Announcing Enterprise Architect for TOGAF Practitioners in Toronto
Written by RamsayRMillar
Leadership needs strategic highly effective BA's, EA's, and PM's working as a team to ensure business outcomes are realized as technical complexity and innovative business models grow to transform the business and technologies services of tomorrow. Enterprise Architects need to find better ways to reduce risk and secure business value by delivering transformation initiatives "right the first time". We invite you to join Ramsay Millar, globally recognized TOGAF® Practitioner, who has successfully deployed TOGAF® best practices and architecture repository across many organizations using Sparx Enterprise Architect since 2009. Learn from a highly experienced practitioner. hosted at Deloitte Toronto, Canada August 15…
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Following the recent EA user group meeting in London, we took a moment to interview attendee Rasheed Amzart, an Enterprise Data Architect with the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC). Here he details his recent work and his impressions on EA and user group meetings. The ATOC also recently published a case study with Sparx Systems partner Dunstan Thomas. Full Name: Rasheed Amzart Job Title: Enterprise Data Architect Organization: Association of Train Operating Companies Attended the London user group meeting in May 2016 (have you attended any others?): Yes. I attended the User Group Meeting in 2015 How long…
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Thursday, 30 June 2016 03:19
Presenting the new open source Enterprise Architect Shapescript Library
Written by Geert Bellekens
The new open source Enterprise Architect Shapescript Library in Github is an initiative to share shapescripts for Enterprise Architect within the user community. Shapescripts in Enterprise Architect are used to define the presentation of elements on a diagram. They are mostly used when defining a UML profile in Enterprise Architect that extends UML or another modelling language with project specific elements and properties. When developing UML profiles these shapescripts are stored in the _image attribute on the stereotype element, and they can be easily edited using the profile helper. After a while however you’ll have a bunch of shapescripts scattered over different profiles, and projects, and it…
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APG ModelFlow™ EA Trial Available for Download APG ModelFlow EA v1.6.2 is now available for download! Access the trial version right now and immediately evaluate how APG ModelFlow can: Effectively exploit enterprise content for architecture-based decision making Seamlessly exchange architecture model content among multiple EA toolsets Reliably synchronize EA content with federated enterprise data repositories Confidently embrace holistic enterprise-wide perspective of business and IT data Tutorials The trial download includes two introductory tutorials to walk you through importing Enterprise Architecture content into EA: TOGAF®-based tutorial with Capabilities, Business Functions, and Applications DoDAF/UPDM™-based tutorial with Capabilities, Performers, Activities, and Systems (exported…
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Friday, 29 April 2016 19:41
Sparx Enterprise Architect Systems Engineering Course by APG
Written by wmclaughlin
Sparx Enterprise Architect Systems Engineering Description: Enterprise Architect Systems Engineering provides students with a hands-on opportunity for learning how to capture systems engineering models with the OMG Systems Modeling Language 1.3 (OMG SysML™) using Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA). Starting with an overview of EA, students will review various configuration options and model organization guidelines. Students begin building a domain model using simple block definition diagrams. Then students capture system requirements and establish traceability relationships using a relationship matrix. Students continue with creating actors and use cases to build a use case model and then represent their interactions with sequence diagrams. Modeling of state-driven behavior is covered through the use of…
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Thursday, 07 April 2016 02:43
Common Information Model (CIM) Users Group European Meeting
Written by sparxsystems
The CIM Users Group European Meeting will be held during June 1-3 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. According to the CIM Users Group website, the event will "... focus on how to use the CIM to create and support the data-driven utility." For more details regarding the CIM Users Group meeting, please visit the event website. Sparx Systems has supported the development of open standards, including the CIM, making available licenses of Enterprise Architect for the purpose of developing the CIM standard. For more details how Sparx Systems supports open standards development, please visit our website.
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Tuesday, 05 April 2016 23:23
CIO Review: Sparx Systems - Top 20 Most Promising BPM Solution Providers 2016
Written by sparxsystems
US based Technology magazine CIO Review has identified Sparx Systems within their '20 Most Promising BPM Solution Providers' list for 2016. In a vendor feature by CIO Review, Sparx Systems founder and CEO Geoffrey Sparks discusses how Enterprise Architect caters for the Business/IT sector, enabling productivity gains throughout the enterprise. View the CIO Review article on their website: Sparx Systems: Driving Enterprise Success with Simplified Business Processing
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MDG Workshop Dunstan Thomas Consulting is proud to announce the new one day MDG Workshop! Overview Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect provides modelling extensions to supplement UML through a technology known as Model Driven Generator or MDG. Tools are provided in Enterprise Architect for experienced users to develop their own MDGs either from scratch or based upon an existing MDG such as ArchiMate, or BPMN. This one day workshop will provide attendees with a practical experience of the tasks required to build a typical MDG. Agenda The following topics will be covered: What is an MDG, what it can contain and…
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Sparx Systems partner OMNILINK was awarded the Victorian Spatial Excellence Award (VSEA) for Export in September 2015. OMNILINK has also been nominated for the Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Award (APSEA) at Locate 16 during 12-14th of April at the Melbourne Convention Centre. The AssetWhere™ product which allows organisations to visualise underground services, room and building details and key asset information in a map-based system, was recognised for improving the Management of Property Records in Schools in the UK. The Sparx Systems visual modeling platform, Enterprise Architect, the tool of choice for the global geospatial community was used…
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Monday, 29 February 2016 12:06
Enterprise Architect Training Courses available in France
Written by Guillaume
VISEO released its 2016 training catalogue, including a full range of updated training courses for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. All training materials are available in French. Slides and exercises content updated with Enterprise Architect 12.1 version. 2 or 3 day thorough training courses, involving UML, BPMN2, or SysML. Optional sessions available: configure a project to be shared with other users; create an MDG Technology; implement an add-in with C#; generate a document (built-in RTF generator or eaDocX); define business processes with BPMN 2.0; ArchiMate 2.0. Please visit Viseo website for more details: Link to VISEO 2016 training catalogue (in french) Modelling and Design training courses (in french)
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Friday, 26 February 2016 00:12
UN Global Geospatial Information Management Forum
Written by sparxsystems
Event: UN Global Geospatial Information Management Forum Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Date: April 20-22, 2016 The Fourth High Level Forum on UN Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) will be hosted in collaboration with the Government of Ethiopia and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) at UNECA's Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 20-22 April 2016. Enterprise Architect has been an essential platform for the development of Statistical and Spatial Frameworks. More Information...
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Wednesday, 24 February 2016 14:32
Tickets available for the Dutch EAUG event on June 10th
Written by Bert Dingemans
Would you like to contribute to a worthwhile day of sharing knowledge and techniques around the use of Sparx Enterprise Architect?Whether you wish to talk about user experiences tools, methodologies and/or your experiences in this field, you are welcome to present your (non commercial) ideas on June 10th at the Dutch Enterprise Architect User Group event. At this event EAUG we will offer three tracks:• Modelling experiences in EA• Howto (changing the functionality of EA or use extensions)• EA@ (use cases of EA in various organisations) Do you want more information please contact us via: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit the Enterprise Architect User…
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BPMN Generator An add-in for Enterprise Architect from Dunstan Thomas Consulting We have had our very own Phil Chudley busy beavering away at a new project which is now commercially available & already in use with DT's customer base. Overview Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect has the functionality to create diagrams directly from Use Case textual scenarios, the most common of which is termed an Activity Graph. This Activity Graph is a simplified form of UML Activity Diagram. This works well, but many organisations have, or are in the process of, standardising the modelling of process flows using BPMN 2.0, and this…