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The Sparx EA Model Governance Tool

Manage and fix model quality issues with speed & efficiency

Is your EA model out of control?

Are there too many people each adding content in their own way, with inconsistencies that make it impossible to re-use?

Does your modelling team need help?

Are they duplicating work that’s already been done? Are they uncertain of the right way to model?

Do you need to simplify model governance?

Do you spend too much time reviewing trivial errors? Does the number of issues delay achievement of project milestones?

We hear you…and have a solution!

Whilst the flexibility of Sparx EA has lots of advantages, its lack of rules and structure can sometimes make managing the modeling process difficult, and inconsistencies harder to spot. The good news is that Model Expert can help.

Verification & Validation

It’s your handy model governance tool for Sparx EA which analyzes models, creates reports and makes it easy to find and fix errors. You can also prevent modeling mistakes, with real-time prompts and guidance for modelers, based on the standards defined by your organization.

Build Best Practice

And with the included aiExpert, you can check any modeling with public domain modeling standards AND domain knowledge, to get feedback and recommendations that make it easy to deliver modeling best practice.

How Model Expert works

Quickly spot inconsistencies in your team’s models and use the built-in navigation to show and easily fix errors. You can use aiExpert queries to access best practice modeling standards, and define rules and reference models for modelers to check their own quality. Or build in rules and standards to prevent mistakes. All this from the best Sparx EA model governance tool – Model Expert.

Check out its features!

Model Expert provides full visibility to model managers when running quality checks, allowing you to easily:
  • See a single page dashboard view of what’s in the model.
  • Review the metamodel: a class diagram, showing all the types, stereotypes, connectors & attributes included.
  • View model contents by element type & stereotype, or by author.
  • Easily navigate to any diagram in the model.
  • Discover the connector types, sources & targets in the model.
  • Gain quick insights into the contents and complexity of any package.
Model Expert allows you to guide modelers & improve model quality by:
  • Creating and applying reference models for modelers to follow.
  • Defining allowed diagram types & contents.
  • Highlighting modeling which isn’t in line with reference models.
  • Displaying violations in diagram and list form.
  • Helping you to create MDGs  to support your best practice modeling standards.
  • Displaying virtual relationships – derived relationships which exist due to intermediate connectors & elements.
aiExpert, included in Model Expert, brings standards-aware, AI-generated feedback directly into your Sparx Enterprise Architect models
  • Using a trusted large language model, guided by curated rules based on public-domain best-practice.
  • Feedback grounded in authoritative sources, not personal opinion.
  • Teams keep their familiar EA-based workflows
  • Feedback on modeling standards AND publicly available domain knowledge
  • Customize queries: choose what to check in your model and which best-practice rules to apply

 

With Model Expert you can apply guided modeling, with rules and bespoke element properties windows to prevent modelers deviating from your modeling standards
  • Define managed packages that follow Reference Model standards with real-time modeling advice.
  • Create a tailored user interface for your modelers.
  • Tailor the in-tool support with links to your organization’s standards.
  • Steer modelers towards re-using existing elements, rather than creating new.
  • Set package level guidance with strict or flexible rules dependent on your project stage or the needs of your team.
  • Apply different Reference Models to different packages and at different project stages.

Common scenarios our customers were facing before speaking to us

You have a large project for a client being built by multiple modellers, but everyone keeps creating elements and relationships in their own unique way. It makes sense to them but no-one else. This makes issues harder to troubleshoot, quality checks trickier to make and ties up your experienced modellers with remedial work.

You’re building on a model that was created by a different team in another location, and now you’ve discovered that instead of creating new elements, you should have re-used existing ones. How can you find and replace the duplicates with the correct versions and make sure it doesn’t happen again?

The EA team has had to grow fast to meet the project timescales, and you need to get everyone up to speed with your company modelling standards, but you don’t have the time or budget to take people off-line for training. How can you build standards and tailored modelling guidance into EA?

Just some of the many benefits

Thanks to Model Expert, you’ll be far more equipped to manage model quality, project delivery and the overall operations of your team. Here are just some of the ways it can help.

  • Eliminates human error.
  • Delivers industry best practice modeling
  • Allows for safe scalability on modeling projects.
  • Makes training easier.
  • Streamlines your onboarding.
  • Supports remote modeling.

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