Product Description
About This Book Praise for Enterprise Architecture Planning— “… the book has given me a wealth of good, fresh ideas about every facet of the architecture process … makes a substantive contribution to the body of IS planning knowledge.” —John A. Zachman Zachman Information Systems Enterprise Architecture Planning is more advanced than traditional system planning approaches because you:

• define a stable business model independent of organizational boundaries, systems, and procedures,
• define data before application, and
• let data determine the sequence for implementing applications systems.

Here the authors give you a common-sense approach to Enterprise Architecture Planning. You’ll find dozens of examples of architectures, procedures, checklists, and useful guidelines to support these techniques. This is the best guide available to help you ensure a cost-effective, long-term solution.

You can buy the book Enterprise Architecture Planning in well sorted bookstores.

ISBN-10: 0471599859
ISBN-13: 978-0471599852

Definitions:
Classes
Classes are elements that define the attributes and behaviors of an object . A behavior describes possible messages of the class along with operations. Within classes you can also define constraints, tagged values and stereotypes.

Class Notation
A class shows the name of the class and optionally the name of the operations and attributes. The compartments divides the class name,  attributes and operations.

Interfaces
The interface is a contract with a specification of behaviors that implementers agree to meet. In an interface, classes are guaranteed to support the required behavior. You may draw the interface in a similar style to a class, specified with operations, or you draw it as a circle with no details to explicit operations.

Tables
Tables are not a part of the base UML, it’s more an example of what can be done with stereotypes. When a table is drawn you can see a small table icon in the upper right corner.

Following in part 2 of the UML Class Diagram.

What is the Teched?
The Teched is a 5 day event with Microsoft innovators, third-party experts, and thousands of your IT peers. It is a interesting place to build up your network to renowned technology experts, distinguished speakers, and community influencers. The Teched offers over 600 IT learning opportunities for you!

Our partner company, LieberLieber, showed a presentation about current state of our UML Simulation and Execution at Teched. Take a look at the video at the developers team blog from LieberLieber.

The MDG for TOGAF allows you to implement all phases of the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM). You can create visual models of As-Is and To-Be architecture or you can model the four TOGAF domains (Business, Application, Data, Technology). And it is easy to document all TOGAF work products.

Key features of the MDG Technology for TOGAF:

• A visual clickable interface for the TOGAF ADM
• Reference models for Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEAF)
• Detailed model structures to organize TOGAF work products
• UML profiles for FEAF Business, Performance, Service and Technical Reference Models
• Extended diagrams for visualising TOGAF, FEAF and Business Architecture elements
• Out-of-the-box TOGAF 8 Enterprise Continuum model
• Support for OMG?s standard Business Motivation Model (BMM)
• Effective management of model dependencies using Enterprise Architect?s Relationship Matrix and Hierarchy Views
• New support for the TOGAF 9 framework
• New Architecture Content diagram type for TOGAF 9’s Architecture Content Metamodel
• Updated BMM toolbox with detailed support for OMG’s official BMM 1.0 specification
• Expanded Enterprise Continuum with Architecture and Solution elements and ADM toolboxes
• Enhanced impact analysis using new dependency relationships in the ADM toolbox: Business, Information, Workflow, IT and Foundation dependencies

For a full description, other informations and examples of the MDG Technology for TOGAF in EA, please take a look at our TOGAF user-guide.

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Please get sure you are working with Enterprise Architect 7.5 Professional or Corporate Edition Build 848, becuase this is required by the MDG Technology for TOGAF.

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