We are considering holding a webinar to allow members of our community to come together to prioritise and plan Essential upgrades and extensions and to discuss various Essential training options, and would appreciate your input.

Following very positive feedback via the forums, the Essential Integration Server has been replaced with the Essential Integration Tab, which is an evolution of the server in an easy to use form.  It provides source-data import and integration capabilities.

The Essential Project has recently received a couple of very favourable reviews.  The Journal of Enterprise Architecture completed a thorough review and evaluation of the Essential Architecture Manager Tool, and one of the leading analyst firms reviewed Essential as part of a report on open source software.

New graphical viewing capabilities for Essential Architecture Manager are now available. A Visio export tool, recently contributed by Clint Cooper, enables the contents of the Essential repository to be exported to and viewed in Microsoft Visio. Adding to this, the latest release of Essential Architecture Manager brings views of the models that are defined graphically to the viewer environment.