Enterprise Architecture Manager Soft Extensions Course

The main goal of the Enterprise Architecture Manager Soft Extensions Course is to teach how to extend the metamodel structure of Enterprise Architecture Manager (EAM) by adding new Item Types and by enabling advanced searches through the creation of labels to be associated to the modeled entities; this can be especially useful if you need to support an alternative (possibly domain-specific) metamodel or data structure in your EAM models. Moreover, this course explains how to create interactive graphical maps to ease the navigation of the workspace trough Microsoft Visio. Like all our other courses, this one includes a practical example for each topic.

Introduction

An introduction to the topics of the Soft Extensions Course

Classification Schemas

A simple way to extend the expressive power provided by EAM:

• introduction to classification schema
• creation, deletion and management of classification schemas through the web-based interface
• use of classification schemas in advanced model searches

Navigation Maps

The navigation maps in EAM:

• predefined navigation maps
• creating and deploying custom interactive navigation maps using MS Visio

Model Driven Architecture Concepts

A quick digression on the fundamental concepts of MDA

• models and metamodels, their use in EAM and the difference between metaclasses and Item Types

Item Type Customization

Creating new Item Types in EAM using the web-based interface:

• Item Types and object views, a summary
• creating new Item Types based on metaclasses
• creating new object and summary views
• troubleshooting and practical examples