Embarcadero ER/Studio Business Architect is a process and conceptual modeling tool that enables architects to easily document business processes and how they access data. Bringing together the simplicity of a drawing tool with the rich semantics of the BPMN standard, business users can easily model the relationships between processes, people and data with ER/Studio Business Architect.
Key Features:
Business process modeling with standard sequences, tasks, swimlane elements
Support for high-level conceptual modeling with subject areas, business entities, relationships and other elements
Usage (CRUD) reporting to model business process and data objects
Powerful and intuitive interface with organizational hierarchies to easily organize information
Business artifact modeling
Based on the BPMN specification
Features and Benefits
Eased communication
Intuitive interface makes it easy to communicate data modeling information to business users
Underlying meta-data captures detailed information needed for data modeling
Conceptual modeling
Model core business concepts in an easy to understand way
Create conceptual data models as the foundation for logical models
Process modeling
Formal process modeling based on the BPMN standard
Flexible process modeling for simple flowchart creation
Model relationships
Model the connections between business artifacts like stewards, business rules, or process steps and link them to each other or directly to data elements and attributes
Impact analysis and CRUD reporting based on your defined relationships
Powerful and intuitive User Interface
Full support for multiple property editors, hierarchical navigation, and grid editing
Import from ER/Studio, MS Excel and Visio
System Requirements:
1.2 GHz processor
512 MB of RAM
500 MB of hard disk storage
SVGA (2 MB) High resolution monitor (1024 x 768 or higher) with high color (16-bit)
ER/Studio Business Architect Studio supports the following operating systems:
Microsoft® Vista® 2007
Windows® XP SP2
NOTE: EA/Studio Version 1.6 is supported on Windows Vista when using the Windows Vista Basic experience. The premium experience, Windows Aero®, is not supported for use with EA/Studio