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Essential Project Components

The Essential Project is the collective name for a set of open source, enterprise architecture support tools that have been developed for use in conjunction with a variety of Enterprise Architecture approaches and frameworks.

The reason for the name is that these tools are focused solely on providing only those capabilities that are "essential" to maximising the value of enterprise architecture; helping organisations manage and analyse the knowledge needed to make decisions that impact or are impacted by the enterprise architecture.

More specifically, the components that currently comprise the Essential Project are:

Essential Meta Model Model It Icon

The Essential Meta-Model, a framework-independent set of semantic definitions for knowledge related to the building blocks and relationships of an enterprise.

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 Essential Architecture Manager Analyse It icon

 

The Essential Architecture Manager, a knowledge repository and reporting tool for capturing and then querying information based on the Essential Meta-Model.

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Fundamentally, the intention is to provide a starter kit that allows organisations to introduce Enterprise Architecture practices (based on whichever Enterprise Architecture framework) more easily and, most importantly, reap early benefits without the need for the up-front investment of a commercial product.

As a result, we hope that organisations will be provided with an open, extensible platform that can act as focal point for sharing ideas and real-world practical experiences of enterprise architecture.