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Mega links business requirements with app design


By Jeff Feinman
October 1, 2008 — 
Enterprise architecture and business process analysis provider Mega released on Monday a modeling tool called System Blueprint. It supports Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), and links business requirements and application design, according to executives.

Terence Lee, Mega's vice president of North American operations, explained that there is a management level and identification level of business requirements. System Blueprint can integrate with requirements management products like Telelogic’s DOORS to relate requirements to business operations and application components.

“Those relationships are identified and supported in the Mega modeling suite,” Lee said. “Within Mega, you can clearly see that a service ties back to 15 or 20 business requirements, for example.”

System Blueprint follows the principles of BPMN and UML 2.0. Lee said BPMN is beneficial because it offers both process and systems notation. System Blueprint can work with Web Services Description Language for exporting service component interfaces, and the product integrates with XML Metadata Interchange 2.1 for exporting specification data. A new module in System Blueprint is Mega IT Planning, which is used for application life-cycle management, Lee said. The module can merge disparate applications together.

Lee said that System Blueprint is part of the integrated Mega modeling suite, which offers process architecture, system blueprinting, IT planning and data modeling. These modules share a repository, meta-model and object structure.

“This is unique compared to other products in that it covers the full spectrum of analysis design and specification,” Lee said. “If you take a tool like CA’s ERwin, it does data modeling very well, but it does a really poor job of relating applications to the processes they support. So if you try to understand the impact of changing data in ERwin to a business process, you really can’t do it. With Mega, our approach enables impact analysis regardless of the perspective you’re looking for.”


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