An Introduction to Model Expert

Model Expert is the EA model quality toolkit for model managers and modelers, giving you the tools to analyze the content of your models, and identify and apply fixes where needed. You can build best practice reference models for quality checking, and deliver real-time modeling guidance – helping modelers get their models ‘right first time’.

Improve your EA model quality

Correct errors in your model

Model Expert gives you back control of your EA models. With Model Expert you can:

• Understand what’s in your EA Models. See what types and stereotypes your modelers have created, and what kinds of connectors they are using. Also see which of the EA standard fields they use, and which tagged values. And see all of this in a friendly summary dashboard.
• Fix the inconsistencies in your models, using a powerful set of tools to identify incorrect element types & stereotypes, bad connectors, duplicate elements and empty diagrams.

Model Governance simplified

Using Model Expert to make these changes saves you time and effort. But wouldn’t it be better to avoid having to make these changes at all? What we need is a way to stop errors from happening in future, by educating modelers to use our ‘best practice’ modeling style, and letting them check their own work. Model Expert can help with that too.

Train your modellers

With Model Expert you can:

• Create Reference Models which capture your best practice modeling style, including element types & stereotypes, connector and diagram types, and diagram contents. You can also create custom scripts which do detailed validation of models, for example, checking naming conventions. And use these to let modellers do their own governance checks before submitting their modelling to the model manager.
• Deliver guidance and enforce standards. Before modellers start work, apply a Reference Model to each new package, so that they get guidance on modelling in the right way, and enforce your local standards. Making their models right first time.

The Toolkit

System Requirements

See Frequently Asked Questions

Notes

• EA Version
  All examples have been created with EA Version 14.1, 15, 15.1 and 15.2.
  The example model is an EAPX file, not EAP. Model Expert addin will be found in the EA ‘Specialize’ menu. For previous versions of EA, addins are found in the ‘Extensions’ or ‘Addins’ menus.
• Performance
  When you use Model Expert to analyze a model repository, Model Expert will make a large number of calls to that repository. We have tried to optimize this access, but it may still impact other users of the repository, so if you are experimenting with Model Expert, you might like to take a copy of your repository, and practice on that.
• Security
  Model Expert needs read-only access to the parts of the model you are analyzing, and write authority to some parts of the model to save the results. Once created, you may wish to keep Reference Models in a separate, read-only area.

Licensing

All Model Expert licenses are valid for one year. They are available as:

1. Single-user licenses, which entitle one person to use the Model Expert features of the eaTeamWorks application for one calendar year. Single User licenses may be transferred between users. Just contact us with the new user details and we will register the license key to their eaTeamWorks registered account, so we can provide them with product support. You may not sell-on any Model Expert license, or copy the license code. other than for backup purposes.
2. Small teams, Growing teams or Enterprise group licenses, where a single key is shared by multiple users. For more information see https://www.eateamworks.com/pricing/