System Architect Boasts New Multiuser Features

System Architect version 10 creates actionable information that IT managers can analyze and executives can use to make business decisions. Executives can use abstracted views of systems to create business models using various industry standards and can determine relationships between systems and the impact of each on the entire enterprise. When changes occur, System Architect users can question the impact of application changes on various systems and business processes. The answers to these queries provide a high-level overview of the overall impact a system change will have—for instance, the effects of implementing a new budget. This product is ideal for consulting firms that provide application analysis and services for companies with strict budgets. The product is also ideal for integrators dealing with government agencies that must design enterprise architectures based on specific criteria to secure funding.

Popkin provides consultants the opportunity to become accredited on its software by passing an exam. Popkin lists consultants that pass the exam in a directory of associates. The company's partner program also provides co-marketing promotions, integration advice, marketing collateral, and sales and technical training. Integration support is also available. In addition, Popkin offers full-service consulting to help partners integrate System Architect as a development platform. Support is available on-site, via the Web or by telephone. Popkin offers partners an average reseller margin of 10 percent, and System Architect is priced at $5,750. In addition to adhering to several industry standards such as the open group architectural framework, U.S. Department of Defense activity-based methology and business-process modeling notation, System Architect can incorporate proprietary standards put in place by the organizations that use the software.

What's more, System Architect carried over modeling features that represent applications and code from the previous version. Standards such as UML were also carried over to represent a granular perspective of application code and application interrelationships. The software creates a universal vocabulary that applications from every department can use and understand. Essentially, System Architect creates business domain blueprints and provides information about each application's architecture that can be used by top stakeholders as well as IT personnel. These blueprints are models of applications and resources available to the business. They are based on proprietary application standards, industry standards, and standards used internally by the company.

System Architect uses classification schemas to describe how data or application functions form relationships and interact with each other throughout an enterprise. This can help pinpoint problems or adverse application interactions. For instance, if a technical user encounters a security flaw in a corporate Web site represented in a System Architect model, that user can alert other departments. Based on that alert, a sales manager can also review and analyze the threat and decide the impact it will have on the company's Web business based on which business processes are affected. Moreover, quantifiable metrics such as business-process changes can immediately alert IT managers to the effect these changes will have on processes and applications.

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