Sparx Systems: Advance Business and Software Modeling with UML
Geoffrey Sparks, CEO and FounderHeadquartered in Australia, Sparx Systems has developed a high-end capabilities tool, Enterprise Architect that implements both SoaML and, as a natural complement, the Service Oriented Modeling Framework (SOMF), which provides a visual representation of the various states of the enterprise service portfolio. “Knowing when to re-use, re-engineer and re-write are critical aspects of moving toward an SOA capability. Through our Enterprise Architect platform, one can model, visualize, and manage the complexity found at the heart of any business,” says Geoffrey Sparks, CEO and Founder, Sparx System.
Sparx specializes in high performance and scalable visual modeling tools to plan, design, and construct software intensive systems. The company’s flagship product, Enterprise Architect, enables the development of the Unified Modeling Language, encourages a well-understood and easily communicated view of business and enterprise architectural elements in a technology independent notation. In addition, Enterprise Architect allows both the modeling and visualization of common development languages and information exchange formats, enabling a wide range of material and artifacts to be visualized, generated, modeled, and reverse engineered. As a result, it is possible to get a clear and robust view of the current architecture and to model future objectives precisely.
“Our subscription plan reflects our belief that ‘lifecycle’ software should be as dynamic and modern as the systems one designs and maintains,” adds Sparks. For more than a decade, the company has continually developed, enhanced, and refined their platform to meet the emerging needs of programmers, business analysts, enterprise architects, testers, project managers, designers, and others.
Based on open standards and proven best-practice, the low cost of the tool plus a free "reader" edition ensures Enterprise Architect can comfortably scale from small single user models to large team based repositories right up to globally distributed Cloud based solutions.
Highlighting a case-study, Sparx, along with its partners, helped an American state government to build a state-operated Health Insurance Exchange using Enterprise Architect. The business requirements and use-case stories were all written using Sparx Enterprise Architect–the same software environment that was used to create the original, pre-built reference framework. The Sparx software served the project as their platform and helped the development team to manage the shared repository that held all project-related information: the framework, the model, the documentation, and all the related artifacts. As a result, at a time when most other governments were still apologizing for a seriously-flawed start, the Sparx operation performed in a flawless manner.
Recently, the company introduced a new tool into Enterprise Architect, which will play a fundamental role in the way organizations and enterprises leverage the new inter-connected and cloud based world that is rapidly changing business and individual information landscapes. “We refer to the tool as the Schema Composer, and its basic purpose is to leverage the standards based models that are being created worldwide to facilitate the creation of message contracts,” delineates Sparks. “The low cost of the tool plus a free ‘reader’ edition ensures that the information and work done in an Enterprise Architect model can be widely shared, easily accessed, and effectively managed.”
Highlighting a case-study, Sparx, along with its partners, helped an American state government to build a state-operated Health Insurance Exchange using Enterprise Architect. The business requirements and use-case stories were all written using Sparx Enterprise Architect–the same software environment that was used to create the original, pre-built reference framework. The Sparx software served the project as their platform and helped the development team to manage the shared repository that held all project-related information: the framework, the model, the documentation, and all the related artifacts. As a result, at a time when most other governments were still apologizing for a seriously-flawed start, the Sparx operation performed in a flawless manner.
Recently, the company introduced a new tool into Enterprise Architect, which will play a fundamental role in the way organizations and enterprises leverage the new inter-connected and cloud based world that is rapidly changing business and individual information landscapes. “We refer to the tool as the Schema Composer, and its basic purpose is to leverage the standards based models that are being created worldwide to facilitate the creation of message contracts,” delineates Sparks. “The low cost of the tool plus a free ‘reader’ edition ensures that the information and work done in an Enterprise Architect model can be widely shared, easily accessed, and effectively managed.”
We specializes in high performance and scalable visual modeling tools for the planning, design and construction of software intensive systems
Company
Sparx Systems
Headquarters
Victoria, Australia
Management
Geoffrey Sparks, CEO and Founder
Description
Providing high performance and scalable visual modeling tools for the planning, design and construction of software intensive systems
