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Select Architect is a scaleable modeling tool for pragmatic Business Motivation Modeling (BMM), Business Process Modeling (BPM), Service and Component Based Development (CBD), Rapid Application Development (RAD), Unified Modeling Language (UML) and database design. Select Architect is widely accepted and recognized as a consistent innovator in the design tools and modeling tools market.

Strategic modeling of the business, using the Business Motivation Model (BMM), allows models created in Select Architect to be used to communicate and enhance business plans. This modeling activity, in turn, may be used to identify changes in business plans, and how they affect changes in systems (manual or as IT) modeled in business process models or UML models.

Business Process Modeling (BPM), is supplied within Select Architect to clearly communicate the desired business workflows and processes. This ensures that delivered solutions meet the needs of the business and that the impact of change can be easily assessed. Notations for BPM include the BPMN. Component Based Development and design is achieved through extensions to UML and integrated component reuse, giving architects abstracted views for solution assembly. This is particularly useful when designing virtual organizations.

The core of Select Architect is a pragmatic UML profile, focused on Component Based Development and business system design. Database design is catered for through Entity Relationship Diagrams and Table Relationship Diagrams, using notations familiar to DBAs and database designers. Finally, free form diagrams are available just in case you need to do something different. Select Architect's approach as a modeling tool is minimalist and easy to learn, while applying industry standards to give you all the tools you need for system design.

Select Architect allows you to model complex IT applications before commencing development, uncovering costly problems earlier in the development life cycle. It also acts as a store for intellectual property, which is invaluable during system maintenance, improvement and integration. Select Architect is the first UML modeling tool that truly integrates solution design with component design. Unique and groundbreaking features within Select Architect provide genuine business benefits.

Features

  • Scalability from an enterprise-scale, multi-user repository.
  • Rapid delivery of applications through pragmatic, minimalist, modeling, design patterns and optional component-based techniques.
  • Impact analysis, achieved through integrated, de-facto, modeling techniques and requirements database.
  • XML Schema generation from UML designs and reverse engineering into models, to aid understanding.
  • Relational Database Schema generation from UML designs and reverse engineering into models, to aid the understanding of your tables and views.
  • Unique Integrated design-time component supply and reuse.

In its own right, Select Architect is an incredibly powerful Business and Component Based Development modeling tool. As part of Select Solution Factory, Select Architect becomes the cornerstone for realizing all the benefits of Component Based Development - "the next wave" in Rapid Application Development (RAD).
 
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