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Tuesday, 03 February 2015 02:36
80Twenty Services Now Available in ASEAN Countries
Written by Christopher SH Bong
80Twenty has launched several new training and consulting program focusing on business process improvement, management and modeling (BPMN). Businesses should review their current business processes to explore opportunity to improve and be more productive. It is essential to invest in fine-tuning business processes before investing on expensive IT systems. 80Twenty training and consulting services are now available in Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, Bangkok, Manila and Jakarta. For more information, please visit www.80twenty.com.sg
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EA-Matic EA-Matic is an add-in for Sparx Enterprise Architect that enables rapid EA add-in development. It uses the built-in scripting features of EA to relieve you of developing, building and deploying full-blown EA add-ins.Aimed at corporate environments it greatly reduces the time to introduce new functionality. With EA-Matic you can develop your EA add-in using nothing but EA, and deploy changes instantly to all model users. The possibilities are endless. You can validate your own modelling rules, keep your model consistent by preventing the deletion of elements that are still used, add your own context menus, or make self-maintaining diagrams.…
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Thursday, 08 January 2015 12:52
Lower maintenance costs for SAP solutions with model-driven development
Written by Peter Lieber
Model-based development has established itself in more and more economic sectors, and is now also used in various scenarios for SAP projects. This means that both development as well as maintenance costs can be significantly reduced.Over its entire lifetime, software costs money; in addition to pure development costs, significant maintenance costs arise during the utilization phase. As soon as the software is in live operation, associated costs are entered under “Software Maintenance” – costs which can reach up to 80 percent of overall lifecycle effort (see B. Hohler, Skript WRT Hannover 2008/09). According to an analysis by the software company…
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Thursday, 13 November 2014 15:54
New ‘Enterprise Architect for Architecture and Strategy’ course from Hippo Software
Written by Gillian Adens
This new training course teaches ArchiMate business, application and technology layers as well as motivation and implementation & migration extensions (providing full support for TOGAF). http://www.hippo-software.co.uk/pages/EAforArchitectureandStrategy.htm
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Tuesday, 14 October 2014 22:23
Enterprise Architect User Group Event: Great Success in Munich
Written by sparxsystems
With over 100 participants the second Enterprise Architect User Group Event in Germany was a great success. Airbus Group in Ottobrunn (Munich) provided the conference facilities and there was a lot of networking and discussion after the speeches and during the breaks. All registered participants will soon find the presentations at the Enterprise Architect user group site www.eausergroup.com for download. We say thank you to Airbus Group for the great cooperation, to the organizing team for the excellent preparation and to all participants, that they gave us their interest and feedback. We are sure, that model based development and engineering…
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Panorama 360, a world known Insurance and Wealth management enterprise business architecture framework, capability map and process models will be showcased at the BPM,com in Banking, Finance and Insurance and the BPM Bootcamp, Sept 29-Oct 2 in Chicago. Trisotech will be demonstrating their Discovery Accelerator http://lnkd.in/daShuxj with Panorama 360 which was developed by Insurance Frameworks (www.Insuranceframeworks.com) . Panorama 360 is currently being used by more than 1,000 insurance and wealth management organizations globally. Insurance Frameworks Inc. has also available in a Sparx Enterprise Architect version which can also be purchased. Insurance Frameworks is now making its Panorama 360 knowledge suite available…
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Wednesday, 03 September 2014 03:40
New Webinar: Creating Charts in Enterprise Architect to Aid Decision Making
Written by sparxsystems
Creating Charts in Enterprise Architect to Aid Decision Making Date: September 2014 Mr Scott Hebbard, Communications Manager at Sparx Systems, will show how Charts in Enterprise Architect can help you manage projects, communicate strategy, identify trends, track KPI's and make informed decisions. In this webinar you will learn how to: Place Charts and Graphs on diagrams, group them to display an interactive project dashboard and include them in generated reports Source data from the model, from specific Packages within the model, or from a custom SQL query that extracts the information from the model Create burn down charts and time…
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Monday, 25 August 2014 11:40
New 'Enterprise Architect Profiles Workshop' from Hippo Software
Written by Gillian Adens
This workshop teaches delegates how to customise Enterprise Architect using profiles. Delegates learn how to build an MDG technology containing profiles for custom diagram types, toolbox pages, elements and relationships. Element profiles can define colours, fonts, shapes and tagged value properties.
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Following the resounding success of last year’s first-ever event for the German Enterprise Architect User Community, it is our sincere pleasure to invite you once again on October 7th, 2014 to Munich. Thanks to the generosity of Airbus, this year’s European Enterprise Architect User Group Event 2014 will be held at Airbus Group Headquarters in Ottobrunn, southeast of Munich, Germany. Clotilde Marchal, Head of Systems Engineering Steering Group, will start the keynote with insights into the strategic role of model based systems engineering (MBSE) and corporate initiatives in this area at Airbus Group, and will be followed by Carsten Strobel,…
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Friday, 18 July 2014 00:08
Importing Visio Diagrams into Enterprise Architect
Written by sparxsystems
If you are not using Enterprise Architect to design your systems, you are giving up opportunities for increased productivity, that result from re-using your data across the whole project, sharing that data across the entire project team and using the model to drive the solution. Enterprise Architect delivers the capacity for data sharing and re-use, achieving synergies and efficiencies that can only be realized using an integrated development environment. You could be reaping the benefits of Enterprise Architect in less than twenty minutes! For more information, please visit the following pages: http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/visio-importer/importing-visio-diagrams-into-enterprise-architect.html To learn how to move from Microsoft Visio…
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Monday, 07 July 2014 07:26
EA User Group 2014: smart use cases, code generation tool, EA11 cloud services, RAS and OSLC
Written by Guillaume
Last May I went to the European EA User Group in the UK (Maidenhead) where the Enterprise Architect community gathered. Prior to delivering my presentation on the alternatives to set up a shared Enterprise Architect project, I attended several presentations, including the following ones that are covered in this article: Pragmatic agile model driven development using smart use cases by Sander Hoogendoorn (Capgemini, NL) Enterprise Architect Version 11 Cloud Services, OSLC and RAS by Phil Chudley (Dunstan Thomas, UK) Pragmatic agile model driven development using smart use cases Sander Hoogendoorn shared the use of smart use cases, coupled with Enterprise…
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Tuesday, 01 July 2014 04:38
Using ArchiMate in Enterprise Architect - Webinar Now Online
Written by sparxsystems
ArchiMate is an industry standard notation developed by The Open Group for the graphical modeling of enterprise architectures. The notation has evolved to be fully aligned with TOGAF. Many companies recognise the value of these architectural models in understanding the dependencies between their people, processes, applications, data and hardware. Using ArchiMate allows them to integrate their business and IT strategies. Gillian Adens, Director of Hippo Software, demonstrates how Enterprise Architect can be used to create ArchiMate models and viewpoints to help in understanding, documenting and communicating knowledge of the enterprise architecture. The webinar: Explains the purpose of ArchiMate and how…
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Friday, 20 June 2014 04:15
Requirements Management using Enterprise Architect's Specification Manager
Written by sparxsystems
July Webinar Announced by Sparx Systems, register Today: http://www.sparxsystems.com/resources/webinar/webinar-registration.html Business requirements are often stored as text documents, resulting in poor traceability, lost requirements and flawed software design. The Specification Manager in Enterprise Architect 11 can help address issues of traceability while providing the convenience of a simple in-place text editor. Create, edit and review elements as text representations of objects in the model, using a process that is well understood and familiar to business analysts and management professionals alike. In this webinar you will learn how to: Create and edit model elements with ease, using Indicator Icons to examine important…
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Wednesday, 18 June 2014 00:27
Webinar - Using ArchiMate in Enterprise Architect
Written by sparxsystems
Last chance to register. ArchiMate is an industry standard notation developed by The Open Group for the graphical modelling of enterprise architectures. The notation has evolved to be fully aligned with TOGAF. Many companies recognise the value of these architectural models to understand the dependencies between their people, processes, applications, data and hardware. Using ArchiMate allows them to integrate their business and IT strategies. This webinar will demonstrate how Enterprise Architect can be used to create ArchiMate models and viewpoints to understand, document and communicate knowledge of the enterprise architecture. The webinar will: Explain the purpose of ArchiMate and how…
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