Select Architect

Select Architect provides one of the first implementations of the new strategic business modeling standard, the Business Motivation Model. This allows business planners to more clearly communicate the strategic decisions that have led to the identification of new systems or changes to existing systems. Modeling the vision, mission, goals, strategies, objectives and tactics along with the influences which impact the successful achievement of the business aims, will provide greater business focus for systems analysis and development.

Business Process Modeling, is supplied within Select Architect to clearly communicate the desired business workflows and processes. This ensures that delivered solutions meet the needs of the business and that the impact of change can be easily assessed. Component Based Development and design is achieved through extensions to UML and integrated component reuse, giving architects abstracted views for solution assembly. This is particularly useful when designing virtual organizations.

The core of Select Architect is a pragmatic UML profile, focused on Component Based Development and business system design. Database design is catered for through Entity Relationship Diagrams, using notations familiar to DBAs and database designers. Finally, free form diagrams are available just in case you need to do something different. Select Architect's approach as a modeling tool is minimalist and easy to learn, while applying industry standards to give you all the tools you need for system design.

Select Architect allows you to model complex IT applications before commencing development, uncovering costly problems earlier in the development life cycle. It also acts as a store for intellectual property, which is invaluable during system maintenance, improvement and integration. Select Architect truly integrates solution design with component design. Features within Select Architect provide genuine business benefits.

Select Architect Features:

• True Component Based Design, mapping directly to today's component and service implementation technologies
• Business Motivation Modeling, allowing improved communication of the business purpose of systems
• Business Process Modeling, model animation and traceability, ensuring designs and software solutions are precisely aligned to the needs of the business
• Cost reductions through automated generation of documents, code and databases, including XML Schema, as well as add-on synchronizers including Java (Select JSync), Visual Basic (Select VBSync), C++ (Select C++Sync) and C# (Select C#Sync)
• Scalability from an enterprise-scale, multi-user repository
• Rapid delivery of applications through pragmatic, minimalist, modeling, design patterns and optional component-based techniques
• Impact analysis, achieved through integrated, de-facto, modeling techniques and requirements database
• XML Schema generation from UML designs and reverse engineering into models, to aid understanding
• Relational Database Schema generation from UML designs and reverse engineering into models, to aid the understanding of your tables and views
• Unique Integrated design-time component supply and reuse

In its own right, Select Architect is an incredibly powerful Component Based Development modeling tool. As part of Select Solution Factory, Select Architect becomes the cornerstone for realizing all the benefits of Component Based Development.