System Architect®

Drive successful innovation

Build solution designs using industry-standard sysML – the systems modeling language, or UML 2.5 – the Unified Modeling Language for software design. These provide the detailed language that systems engineers and application architects need to design precise, easy-to-understand, digital representations of solutions that meet myriad requirements.

You can use sysML or UML to model solutions within the context of enterprise architecture frameworks, such as UAF, DoDAF2, NAF 4, or TOGAF 10, and, as with all other frameworks, you can build sysML and UML models in the System Architect rich client, or the SA XT web browser client – offering easy access to innovate.

Model-driven architecture

With model-based systems engineering (MBSE), the model is king – diagram views reflect the model information in a variety of ways, and also act as an interface for information capture. Software Engineers and Solution Architects can work in a combination of ways: auto-import information from sources of record and automatically visualize it, or design solutions anew.

MBSE solutions are recommended by the International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE) and the US Department of Defense.

Manage complex requirements and standards

Utilize the Open Service Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) REST standard to link solution architecture artifacts to the requirements that they satisfy, managed in Requirements tools such as IBM DOORS or other requirements tools that support the OSLC standard. You may also link the architecture elements to Change Requests in CMDB tools – or any information type to another tool supporting OSLC. IIn this way you take architecture out of its silo and created an integrated mesh of information amongst best-of-breed tools from different vendors.

Use the OSLC Global Configuration management capability to make sure versions of the architecture are in synch with versions of requirements, change requests, et al.

Use latest industry icons to communicate concepts

Jazz up your sysML or UML designs utilizing latest digital transformation icons provided by Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM Garage, or Google Cloud.

Publish and communicate

Use System Architect’s powerful, native capabilities to view personalized report dashboards in a web browser via SA XT, or use SA Publisher to publish the entire architecture to a website so an infinite amount of people can view and examine it.