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Our layered metamodel (Strategy, Business, Application, Technology, Motivation) with 23 element types and 11 relationship types, plus org-defined custom types.

An iterative, framework-agnostic lifecycle ships as a ready-made template: Vision & Scope through Change Management, with Requirements & Stakeholders at the centre. Fully editable to match your own method.

Identity-centric security reference model: IdP, policy decision/enforcement points, micro-segmentation, and SIEM. Fully adaptable.

Brownfield modernisation scaffold with pre-staged lifecycle: legacy phase-out, facade, target microservices.

Use views to move from system context through containers to components. One repository, many perspectives.

A readable YAML DSL for declaring models in version control. Import and export are lossless round-trips.

Dedicated BPMN notation ships in the Diagrams studio, alongside first-class business process elements on the architecture canvas.

Nine industry packs encode reference structures for banking, healthcare, telecom, government, energy and more.

Draw UML in the Diagrams studio, and map Sparx EA XMI imports (classes, components, nodes, and associations) straight into your model.