Business Architect Features
Integrated process and conceptual relationship mapping

Conceptual Modeling

• Conceptual Model Creation - Support for high-level conceptual modeling using subject areas, business entities, interactions and relationships
• Relationship Traceability - Model links between conceptual or process modeling elements
• Conceptual Model Export - Export conceptual models to ER/Studio Data Architect to create logical models

Business Process Modeling

• Process Model Creation - Process model using elements such as sequences, tasks, swim lanes, start events and gateways
• BPMN Compliance - Optional automatic validation of process diagrams to ensure compliance with the BPMN specification
• Embedded Sub-process support - Flexibility in diagramming and a workable visual diagram by embedding collapsible sub-processes within a business process

Impact Analysis Reporting

• Multi-object, Multi-level Reporting - Show interrelationships between process, data, stewardship, business rule, diagram usage, heritage and connecting objects
• Report Filtering - Filter reports based on type of relationship, object type, text strings including wildcard matching

Usage (CRUD) Reporting

• Line Processes with Data - Model to identify what processes create, read, update and delete data objects
• CRUD Reporting - Report processes that affect data and the type of effect
• Report Filtering - Reports shown across object types or can be filtered based on individual object types such as tasks and business processes

Business Artifact Modeling

• External Data Objects - Support for data storage objects to represent databases, file systems or other data storage mechanisms
• Business Elements - Capture business terms to enforce naming standards or to build logical models
• Business Rules - Incorporate policies, practices or formulae related to business processes
• Business Units - Incorporate business units such as sales, human resources or accounting into process models
• Stewardship - Support for organizational roles to own specific processes

Powerful and Intuitive User Interface

• Organizational Hierarchies - Project-based tree hierarchy to group multiple model types and diagrams to align with business initiatives or organizations
• Flexible Interface - Full support for multiple property editors, tab navigation, undo-redo, collapsible nested views and zoom
• Grid Editing - Alternative to hierarchical tree view to display large number of objects or business rules for easy viewing

Import/Export

• Export Across Multiple Formats - Share in supported formats including xml, csv, html, pdf, rtf and jpeg
• Visio Import - Configurable capabilities to import diagrams from Microsoft Visio

Robust Architecture

• Separation of Data and Display - Core data can be manipulated and displayed in a variety of formats speeding performance and increasing knowledge transfer
• Object Reuse - Process and enterprise objects can be reused across multiple diagrams allowing single version of truth
• Standards-based - Based on Industry standards: Eclipse based, XML file formats from published Schema, BPMN modeling notations