Key Features
Model Guardian provides numerous features that make maintaining both your frameworks and your models a much simpler task than doing so in Enterprise Architect alone. A list of the key features is shown below. Click on the feature links for more information.
Framework Editing Features
Enterprise Architect
Model Guardian
Create frameworks to guide modelers. Yes Yes
Comparative time to build a framework. 2 Weeks 2 Hours
User interface guided framework development. No Yes
Automatic archival and retrieval of previous framework versions. No Yes
Import the current model's stereotypes, tags, and relationships into the framework* No Yes
Generate Framework-based and User-defined SQL views* No Yes

 

Model Editing Features Enterprise Architect Model Guardian
Automatically synchronize models with framework changes Yes No
Bring pre-existing model elements under framework control No Yes
Change the stereotype of all model elements with a given stereotype to another stereotype, while handling multiple stereotypes on the elements No Yes
Change the tag name of all model elements with a given tag name to another tag name, eliminating tag "orphans" when changing the name of a tag definition No Yes
Relocate model elements in the Project Browser by simply clicking on the target package No Yes
In addition to viewing where a model element is used in diagrams and where it is directly linked to other elements, view where it is used as an attribute, as an operation parameter or return type, a tagged value, and where it is linked to other elements through exposed interfaces No Yes
Report on framework violations in models* No Yes
Install framework generated SQL views into the model repository No Yes
Install User-defined SQL views into the model repository No Yes
Install enterprise architecture & risk management SQL Views for strategic reporting*** No Yes
Simplify modeling tasks with a framework-driven user interface for working in your model** No Yes
Simplify the complex task of managing service provisioning between architectural layers with a set of user interface forms*** No Yes
*Scheduled for an upcoming release.
**Requires the Framework Edition with Automation or the Model Edition with Automation
***Included with the (EA)2 Enterprise Architecture Modeling Framework