Domain Models

Enterprise Architect provides support for a rich range of modeling languages, technologies and methods, most of which have been built as profiles or by the use of stereotyped elements that extend the basic UML elements. The power of modeling is the ability to integrate the various representations of a system, and stitch together models from a variety of domains and disciplines. For example, the ability to integrate models that describe the geospatial aspects of a feature in the world such as an airport, with regulatory and air traffic control models and baggage handling system models, provides a clarity that has not been possible before. It is the ability to model these concepts in the language of multiple disciplines, and then to tie them together in a single modeling environment, that makes Enterprise Architect such a useful and productive tool.

Modeling Domains

Domain	Description	See also
ODM	Enterprise Architect enables you to develop large-scale ontologies within the fully-integrated modeling environment, for your project domain. ODM helps you to develop a formalized representation of business semantics and taxonomies, and a knowledge representation based on those formalizations.	MDG Technology for ODM
Requirements	Enterprise Architect is one of the few UML tools that integrate Requirements Management with other software development disciplines in the core product, by defining requirements within the model.	Requirement Models
Business Modeling	Modeling the business process is an essential part of any software development process, enabling the analyst to capture the broad outline and procedures that govern what it is a business does.	Business modeling
Business Rules	Business Rule modeling captures the rules that govern a business, and their relationships with the entities and specific tasks within the organization or system.	Modeling Business Rules
BPMN	The Business Process Modeling Notation is specifically targeted at the business modeling community and has a direct mapping to UML through BPMN Profiles; these profiles enable you to develop BPMN diagrams quickly and simply.	BPMN modeling
BPEL	Business Process Execution Language is an executable language for specifying interactions with Web Services. Enterprise Architect uses the BPMN profile as a graphical front-end to capture BPEL Process descriptions.	BPEL modeling
SysML	SysML is a general-purpose graphical modeling language for specifying, analyzing, designing, and verifying complex systems that might include hardware, software, information, personnel, procedures and facilities.	Systems Engineering (SysML)
Data Modeling	Enterprise Architect provides easy-to-use tools for building and maintaining all of the fundamental data models - Conceptual, Logical and Physical; because Enterprise Architect lets you visualize each type of data model in the same repository, you can easily manage dependencies between each level of abstraction.	Data Models
XSD	Enterprise Architect supports rapid modeling, forward engineering and reverse engineering of W3C XML schemas (XSD), critical for the development of a complete Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).	XML Schema modeling (XSD)
WSDL	Enterprise Architect enables rapid modeling, forward engineering and reverse engineering of W3C XML Web Service Definition Language (WSDL), critical for the development of a complete Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).	Web Service modeling (WSDL)
SPEM	The Software and Systems Process Engineering Meta-model (SPEM) is a conceptual framework for modeling, documenting, presenting, managing, interchanging, and enacting development methods and processes. SPEM 2.0 focuses on providing the additional information structures that you require for processes modeled with UML 2 Activities or BPMN/BPDM.	Software Process modeling (SPEM)
ArchiMate	ArchiMate is an open-standard enterprise architecture language based on the IEEE 1471 standard, providing a common language for describing the construction and operation of business processes, organizational structures, information flows, IT systems and technical infrastructure. It enables Enterprise Architects to clearly describe, analyze and visualize the relationships among business domains.	ArchiMate
ArcGIS	ArcGIS is a suite of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software products developed by Esri.	Geodatabase Design for ArcGIS
AML	The Archetype Modeling Language (AML) defines a standard means for representing clinical information.	MDG Technology for AML
Data Flow Diagrams	A Data Flow diagram (DFD) is a graphical representation of the flow of data through an information system; it can also be used to visualize data processing (structured design). Developing a DFD helps in identifying the transaction data in the data model.	Data Flow Diagrams
Entity Relationship Diagrams	Entity-relationship modeling is an abstract and conceptual database modeling method, used to produce a schema or semantic data model of, for example, a relational database and its requirements, visualized in Entity-Relationship diagrams (ERDs). ERDs in Enterprise Architect assist you in building conceptual data models through to generating Data Definition Language (DDL) for the target DBMS.	Entity Relationship Diagrams
Eriksson-Penker Extensions	Eriksson-Penker extensions provide a framework for UML business processing model extensions, to which an Enterprise Architect can add stereotypes and properties appropriate to their business. In Enterprise Architect, the Eriksson-Penker profile provides, through a set of stereotypes, a unique and powerful means of visualizing and communicating business processes and the necessary flow of information within an organization.	Eriksson-Penker Extensions
Gang of Four Patterns	Gang of Four (GoF) Patterns are 23 classic software Design Patterns providing recurring solutions to common problems in software design. Enterprise Architect provides each Pattern through an icon in the Diagram Toolbox.	GoF Patterns
ICONIX	The ICONIX Process is a streamlined approach to Use Case driven UML modeling that uses a core subset of UML diagrams and techniques to provide thorough support of object-oriented analysis and design. Its main activity is robustness analysis, a method for bridging the gap between analysis and design.	ICONIX
Mind Mapping	A Mind Map is an image-centered diagram used to represent semantic or other connections between words, ideas, tasks or other items arranged radially around a central key word or idea. A Mind Map is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.	Mind Mapping
SoaML	Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural paradigm for defining how people, organizations and systems provide and use services to achieve results.	SoaML
SOMF	The service-oriented modeling framework (SOMF) is a service-oriented development life cycle methodology, offering a number of modeling practices and disciplines that contribute to a successful service-oriented life cycle management and modeling.	SOMF 2.1
Extended Diagrams	Enterprise Architect provides an additional set of diagram types that extend the core UML diagrams for domain-specific models. Also, the specialized modeling tools listed in the first part of this table each have their own specialized diagrams.	Analysis Diagram Custom Diagram Requirements Diagram Maintenance Diagram User Interface Diagram Data Modeling Diagram Business Modeling and Business Interaction Diagrams
Inbuilt and Extension Stereotypes	Behavioral and Structural elements can be extended through the use of stereotypes; Enterprise Architect provides a number of inbuilt extensions.	Inbuilt and Extension Stereotypes
Build Your Own Modeling Language	Enterprise Architect enables you to extend the scope both of your modeling and of the UML components you use, through the use of stereotypes, Profiles and Patterns to develop your own modeling applications.	Defining a Modeling Language