Aurora, a comprehensive and documented EA Metamodel which can save your EA Practice build 6 months development and implementation time. You can also de-risk your project by benefiting from an EA Metamodel that is already in use.
Aurora-SA is the implementation version of Aurora-PIM designed for IBM's System Architect Enterprise Architecture tool.
There are many challenges in setting up an EA Practice. One key challenge is creating the model that describes what and how your practice is going to model architecture and produce architecture descriptions – your metamodel. Establishing a strong metamodel is critical for modelling consistency and long term success of your practice.
Modelling consistently is essential to:
- enable your architecture team to communicate with a common language
- achieve the consistent production of architectural descriptions
- enable consistent communication with the customers and stakeholders of the EA Practice
Achieving consistency necessitates:
- common standards for modelling
- common definitions describing what is being modeled
- the collective set of definitions must also fit together to enable modelling across as well as within architectural domains.
Developing a metamodel is a significant undertaking: it requires specialist expertise, in-depth understanding of the major architecture frameworks, standards and other bodies of knowledge. It also requires time. For an EA Practice set-up, time is one thing that is not always available. EA sponsors demand rapid return on investment and quick-wins. Developing a metamodel and configuring your EA tool for 6 months may not be justifiable. Fortunately, Celestial has the answer:
- Aurora-PIM, the platform independent model is available as the basis for any tool implementation.common standards for modelling
- Aurora-SA is a ready-to-go version developed specifically for System Architect Version 10.
Benefits of Aurora-SA: Aurora-SA inherits the huge benefits from Aurora-PIM plus more. We have worked to convert the logical model into the configuration files needs to implement the model within System Architect.
Features of Aurora-SA: Aurora-SA inherits all the rich features from Aurora-PIM plus more:
- Aurora-SA is currently available for System Architect Version 10.4. and above
- Aurora-SA has been developed and tested in parallel with Aurora-PIM
- Aurora-PIM is included as part of Aurora-SA.