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Sparx update gives enterprise architects a hand


By Alex Handy
April 7, 2009 — 
Enterprise architects are quickly becoming the must-have hire for large teams. The work that they do can guide hundreds of coders through their daily tasks. To aid those architects, Sparx Systems updated its Enterprise Architect software in late March. Version 7.5 pushes the product into some new territory while adding features still relevant to systemic project directors.

Ben Constable, COO of Sparx Systems, said that the 7.5 release is more significant than its version number indicates. “BPEL has been a hot spot for our customers," he said. "The ability to build business process models and translate that into the code and be able to run that on third-party engines is what our customers have asked for. Enterprise Architect can now take a natural language diagram and document, then take those rules and enforce them."

The addition of BPEL brings with it support for numerous BPEL engines. Constable said that Enterprise Architect can generate executable BPEL from diagrams, and then send that code out to popular third-party BPEL engines, such as Active Endpoints and Oracle BPEL Process Manager.

For systems engineers, Enterprise Architect Systems Engineering Edition, brings the standard design and modeling tools into a hardware-focused environment. The big upgrade for this version, which retails for US$599 versus the $299 standard edition, includes support for SysML 1.1 for the first time. The Systems Engineering Edition can also generate code and logic from design constraints based on hardware.

Sparx Systems also updated its Business and Software Edition, which costs $599 and is targeted at business users dedicated to designing processes. For $699, the Ultimate Edition includes everything in the Enterprise Architect world.

For distributed teams working on large design projects, Constable said that version 7.5 will enhance the performance of Enterprise Architect.

“We've added load on-demand,” said Constable. “That basically allows users that might have models containing hundreds of thousands of elements to load them in a matter of seconds.”

The load on-demand feature allows designs to be streamed from server to client rather than forcing designers to wait while the entire diagram loads.


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