Prepared by: Gerald R. Gray, Guiding Principle Consulting

Agenda  EA Strengths/Weaknesses  Pre-requisites  Gridwise Architecture Interoperability Framework  Creating common systems integration diagrams Guiding Principle Consulting - CIM Users Group - San Francisco2

EA Uses and Benefits  Supports IT system, software, and business processes  Models, designs, builds, and tests software  Uses standard Unified Modeling Language (UML)  Can be used to create: Business Process Models, Class diagrams, and software artifacts  Central repository for process and IT system information  Built-in support for version control e.g. Subversion  Fast, built-in or custom document generation & HTML Guiding Principle Consulting - CIM Users Group - San Francisco3

EA Weaknesses  May be a poor choice for complex system diagrams Visio is “prettier” PowerPoint also an option  Complex User Interface Extensive feature set may lead to confusion Time saving “tricks” difficult to learn  Diagrams not useful if team doesn’t see value UML/BPM may be used currently at their site Some users intimidated by tool Guiding Principle Consulting - CIM Users Group - San Francisco 4

Pre-requisites  Sparx Enterprise Architect Version 8 recently released $135 - $699 depending on version Guiding Principle Consulting - CIM Users Group - San Francisco5

Following the GWAC Stack Guiding Principle Consulting - CIM Users Group - San Francisco6 Adapted from Gridwise Architecture Council Interoperability Framework  Use Case  Business Process  Integration Requirements  Message Payloads

Common Systems Integration Diagrams  Use Case diagrams  Business Activity Diagrams Integration Requirements  Sequence Diagrams Guiding Principle Consulting - CIM Users Group - San Francisco7

Adding a Use Case  Project Browser New Package New Diagram – Use Case In the workspace add ○ Actors, cases, associations Guiding Principle Consulting - CIM Users Group - San Francisco8

Adding a Business Process  Project Browser Add New Package New Diagram – Activity Open workspace, right-click for Swimlanes and Matrix… Add swimlanes Add Activity and flows Guiding Principle Consulting - CIM Users Group - San Francisco9

Integrations Requirements  Addition to the Activity diagram Alignment of business user and the architect/software team Object flow between two activities, typically spanning actors (swimlanes) Add requirement (from common tools) ○ Add Integration to Type ○ Use object node to identify service Guiding Principle Consulting - CIM Users Group - San Francisco10

Adding Sequence Diagram  Project Browser Add New Package New Diagram - Sequence diagram  Open workspace Add Actors Add flows (asynchronous) Add returns (“Is Return” checkbox) Service naming based on IEC Guiding Principle Consulting - CIM Users Group - San Francisco11

Reference  EA Free Trial tml tml  Subversion Documentation  EA Tutorials and Online Help tml tml Guiding Principle Consulting - CIM Users Group - San Francisco12

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