October - 2013
 
 
Enterprise Architect Newsletter
In This Issue:
Sparx Systems named in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools 2013
Trac-Car Recognised for Technology Innovation at UNFCCC
Live Webinar: "Setting up a Team modeling Environment"
Sparx Systems attending Gartner Symposium - Barcelona
Webinar Recording: "Getting Started with Enterprise Architect"
Sparx Systems attending IIBA BBC
Top articles from the Community Site
Messages from our Partners
Your messages on Twitter
Gartner Magic Quadrant 2013
This week Gartner Analysts named Sparx Systems in the 2013 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools for the forth consecutive year.*
 
See the full press release
 
Trac-Car Recognised for Technology Innovation at UNFCCC
Sparx Systems Partner, Trac-Car, has been recognised as the Response to Climate Change (RTCC), Sustainable Technology Company of the Year 2013-Australasia, for their greenhouse gas reporting system.
The Trac-Car system is accessible to carbon emitters or companies seeking to understand and reduce their own emissions. The core of the reporting has been generated from an Enterprise Architect UML model, and the cloud platform is designed to connect to existing meters, spreadsheets, databases etc and capture accurate, geospatially referenced global emissions data, accessible to all interested parties. With an accurate measure of their own carbon footprint organisations can respond with optimised energy efficiency measures.
 
Trac-Car and Sparx Systems will attend the November 2013 meeting of UNFCCC COP19 in Warsaw where this prestigious award will be presented. The models can be viewed via the Sparx Systems Community Site
Official observers to the UN Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) - See more here
 
Sparx Systems Attending Gartner Symposium - Barcelona
Sparx Systems will be showing its support for the Enterprise Architecture community of Europe in Novemeber (10th - 14th) by attending the 2013 Gartner Symposium in Barcelona, Spain.
 
For details see: events
 
Sparx Systems Attending IIBA BBC
Sparx Systems will be attending the IIBA Building Business Capability event November (11th - 15th). Building Business Capability is the only conference that combines insight into Business Analysis, Business Architecture, Business Process, Business Strategy & Transformation and Business Rules & Decisions to facilitate creating the agile enterprise. See the details to recieve your 20% discount pass.
 
For details see: events
 
 
Messages from our Partners
Premium sponsor for the day of systems engineering in Germany
The day of systems engineering is the main german speaking platform for system engineers and will take place Nov. 6th until 8th in Stuttgart, Germany.
Visit: www.lieberlieber.com/footer-navigation/events/
Free Capability Map and Enterprise Business Framework for Insurance and Wealth Management
The framework is now available on Enterprise Architect to all organizations. Insurance Frameworks Inc. has so far provided close to 200 copies of the industry framework to financial organizations.
More: www.InsuranceFrameworks.com
European Enterprise Architect public trainings
The next Enterprise Architect public trainings will take place as follows: Munich, Oct. 14th + 15th; Frankfurt, Nov. 4th +5th; Zurich, Nov. 11th + 12.th
More: www.sparxsystems.de/ressourcen/news/news-beitrag/article/public-uml-trainings-mit-enterprise-architect-ea-kopie-1-2/
Resources from Sparx Systems India, sharing Enterprise Architect best practices and tips
Articles on how to leverage Enterprise Architects capabilities for effective modeling and analysis, quick start tutorials, daily tips and much more from Sparx Systems India
Visit: www.sparxsystems.in/blog/
Enterprise Architect and Modeling Training in your Company
Emerasoft University can improve your Enterprise Architect competence: discover the certified training program and the next courses starting on october 2013.
Visit: www.emerasoft.com/formazione/
Biner EASI C An integration of Sparx, ArchiMate and TOGAF in one software plugin
Contains pre-configured structures based on the ADM model, using ArchiMate as modelling language to help you kick-start your Enterprise Architecture work today.
Visit: www.biner.se/en/methods/binereasi
Top Community Site Articles:
Energy & Greenhouse Gas Reporting in the Cloud
Trac-Car has built a reporting solution for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions for Australia's National Greenhouse Emissions Reporting in Sparx Enterprise Architect.
Written by Nya Murray.
Read the full article
Inaugural HL7 2012-2013 Tooling Challenge Awarded
Sparx Systems congratulates Antonio Villegas, PhD and Antoni Oliv, Professor from Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech (UPC BarcelonaTech), who this week were acknowledged as winners of the inaugural HL7 2012-2013 Tooling Challenge.
Written By Sparx Systems
Read the full article

 
Setting up a Team modeling Environment
See how to set up Enterprise Architect for team based modeling.
Learn how to:
Set up a relational database for hosting a shared model repository
Create role-based users and groups for model authors
Connect to your shared model and leverage collaborative modeling tools
Register for upcoming webinars
Getting Started with Enterprise Architect
Mr Scott Hebbard, Communications Manager at Sparx Systems, outlines some key concepts that you need to understand when you are first getting started with Enterprise Architect.
In this webinar, you'll learn how to:
Install Enterprise Architect and build a simple model from scratch.
Create Views, Packages, Diagrams and establish links between elements using Connectors and the Quicklinker.
Appreciate the subtle yet important differences between diagramming and modeling.
View: Getting Started with Enterprise Architect
Your messages on Twitter 
Connect with the online Enterprise Architect community using the hash tag #EnterpriseArchitect and @SparxSystems in your tweets for a chance to be featured in our monthly newsletter!
Dunstan Thomas @DTImago
An Introduction to Model Simulation in Enterprise Architect: http://youtu.be/I7mmFbF8O3U?a via @YouTube
 
HL7 News @HL7news
Congratulations to Antoni Olive and Antonio Villegas awarded the 2013 #HL7 Tooling Challenge - sponsored by @SparxSystems
 
Object Mgmt Group @ObjectMgmtGroup
We're grateful to the Gold Sponsors of the #OMGTech Meeting @Accelare and @Sparxsystems
 
John @arcadiagt5
Looks like I can reload my layout options from the previous version. Nice. #enterprisearchitect
 
Trilogis @Trilogis
We are very proud to announce that Trilogis has become Authorised Reseller of SPARX System. More information at: http://ow.ly/pkA2w
 
Sparx Systems India @SparxSystemsIN
#EA TIP 13: Drop requirement over any diagram element to implicitly create realization connector #EnterpriseArchitect pic.twitter.com/qK4d7zORFx
 
Sparx Systems India @SparxSystemsIN
#EA TIP 11: Add a Slideshow folder in "Model Views" to run presentations of a set of diagrams #EnterpriseArchitect pic.twitter.com/VIohhrmEOr
 
 
 
 
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