Enterprise Architect and SysML – the story so far Sam Mancarella Chief Technology Officer Sparx Systems May 13, 2008

Overview Introduction to Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and MDG Products MBSE Market Sparx Market breakdown Customer Experiences What our customers really think Conclusion Future SysML work

Overview Introduction to Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and MDG Products MBSE Market Sparx Market Breakdown Customer Experiences What our customers really think Conclusion Future SysML work

Who is Sparx Systems? Established in 1998 Leading provider of UML modeling tools Enterprise Architect for UML 2.1 Model Integration with 3 rd Party tools Visual Studio, Eclipse, DOORS, Visio Support for other modeling standards Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) OMG Systems Modeling Language (SysML) Architecture Frameworks (DoDAF/MoDAF, Zachman Framework, ToGAF)

Who is Sparx Systems? Headquartered in Australia Sister companies Japan Central Europe South America China (new for 2008) Represented by approx 200 Partners Resellers, Trainers, Technical Partners Value-Added Resellers (VARs)

The Sparx Product Line UML Modeling Platform Domain Extensions (Value-Added UML) Application Integration UML Integration

Enterprise Architect Our Flagship UML 2 Modeling Platform Supports the latest UML 2.1 standard All 13 diagrams supported Over 150,000 licenses worldwide Visual Requirements Modeling One of the first providers to offer visual requirements UML 2 Extensions to model requirements Requirements, Feature, Change, Issue Seamless traceability between formal specifications and system specifications within the model

Overview Introduction to Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and MDG Products MBSE Market Sparx Market Breakdown Customer Experiences What our customers really think Conclusion Future SysML work

MBSE Market Tiny Relative Marketshare MDG for SysML represents < 1% of total EA user base Customers – Industry Segments Academia, Defence, Biotechnology, Aerospace Govt. Research, Heavy Industries, Automotive Resources (Mining)

MBSE Market Customers – Demographics Trainers / Educators Contractors / Consultants (self-employed) RnD Engineers Customers – Usage Behavior System Engineering Modeling new, real-world designs, concepts Capturing existing designs for documentation Small-scale projects - <10 personnel

MBSE Market Customers – Usage Behavior… Value – Added Modeling Using Sparx SysML to extend their own products/services Training, product extensions Many of these users are Sparx Registered Partners Evaluation Evaluating our product (users are savvy in SysML, reviewing our product for procurement) Evaluating the technology (users are savvy in Systems Engineering, reviewing SysML as a technology)

Overview Introduction to Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and MDG Products MBSE Market Sparx Market Breakdown Customer Experiences What our customers really think Conclusion Future SysML work

Customer Experiences What they like Value-for-money Cost-effectiveness of EA + SysML Ease of Use User Interface less imposing to the SysML-novice Scalable deployment Multi-user capable using DBMS repositories What they want improved Our SysML implementation is dated, needs updating’ Interoperability with other SE tools *important*

Overview Introduction to Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and MDG Products MBSE Market Sparx Market Breakdown Customer Experiences What our customers really think Conclusion Future SysML work

Conclusion Very slow adoption <1% of total userbase Early Adopters, mainly SysML Evaluators, SysML Practitioners, not enough ‘real customers’ Food for thought to consider to broaden adoption to the mainstream Tool interoperability between SysML-capable tools, simulators, analysers and repositories (not JUST SysML model vendors) – AP233 Process & Frameworks - OOSEM

Conclusion… Food for thought… Maturity of the language – SysML 1.1 RTF efforts at the OMG UML has enjoyed 10+years to develop its ubiquity – does SysML need just as much time? For Further Information 30-day full functional trials of: Enterprise Architect 7.1 MDG Technology for SysML

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