Enterprise Architect is available in three editions: Corporate, Professional and Desktop. Functionality for each version is described below:
Functionality |
Corporate Edition |
Professional Edition |
Desktop Edition |
.EAP Files |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Shared Models |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Source Code Engineering |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Database Engineering |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Microsoft Access Repository |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle 9i and 10g, PostgreSQL, MSDE, Adaptive Server Anywhere Database Repositories |
Yes |
No |
No |
Version control |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Replication |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
MDG Technologies |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
MDG Link for Eclipse and MDG Link for Visual Studio.NET |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Security |
Yes |
No |
No |
Auditing |
Yes |
No |
No |
Enterprise Architect Corporate Edition
Aimed at larger development teams, the Corporate edition supports everything in the Desktop and Professional versions, plus the ability to connect to MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere and Oracle 9i and 10g DBMS back ends as the shared repository. This provides additional scalability and improved concurrency over the shared .EAP file approach to model sharing. User security, user logins, user groups and user level locking of elements, user/group based security (with locking at diagram and element levels) are also supported. Security comes in two modes: in the first mode, all elements are considered 'writeable' until explicitly locked by a user or group; in the second mode, all elements are considered locked until checked out with a user lock.
The Corporate edition is available in either standalone (fixed license) or Floating License form. The Corporate Floating License arrangement is particularly useful for companies that manage a central store of license keys. Floating license keys can be used by different employees over time, temporarily or permanently.
Enterprise Architect Professional Edition
Aimed at work groups and developers, the Professional edition supports shared projects through replication and shared network files. This edition has an ActiveX interface for interrogating Enterprise Architect projects and extracting information in XMI format. The Professional edition fully supports code import/export and synchronization of model elements with source code. It enables reverse engineering Oracle 9i and 10g, SQL Server and MS Access databases. Support for MDG Technologies and MDG Link (sold separately) is included with the Professional version of Enterprise Architect. The shared repository available in the Professional edition is restricted to the .EAP file format (JET database).
Enterprise Architect Desktop Edition
The Desktop edition is targeted at single developers producing UML analysis and design models.
Tip: In order to help you understand the differences between these editions and the advantages and limitations of each, the trial version of Enterprise Architect can be opened in any required configuration. When Enterprise Architect starts, select the mode to trial; you can restart in another mode next time if necessary.
The fully functional 30 day trial version of Enterprise Architect is available free of charge at www.sparxsystems.com/bin/easetup.exe.
More information about Enterprise Architect editions is available on the Sparx Systems website.
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