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Following on from its Enterprise Architecture Management Tool Surveys in 2005 and 2008, The Technical University of Munich have recently released a thesis which studies three open source EA Management Tools, based on the same principles used to evaluate the proprietary tools.  The study carries out a detailed evaluation of The Essential Project, and then compares these findings with two other open source tools.

The results make very pleasing reading for the Essential Team, and the kiviat diagram on page 51 highlights Essential’s strengths in that it scores top marks in 5 of the 8 categories.    
Essential was found to be very strong in ‘importing, editing and validating model data’, ‘Editing model data and using an external editor’, Adapting the information (meta) model’, ‘Supporting multiple users and collaborative work’ and ‘Interacting with the editing of visualisations of the application landscape’.  This is a reflection of the strong import, export and integration functions that Essential has to offer and that the meta model has been designed to be extensible and customisable. 
 
The categories where Essential scored lower are mainly related to visualizations and reflect the fact that the scenario demanded out-of-the-box capability. Essential Viewer has been specifically designed to enable users to create their own views to meet their specific needs. Currently, these did not match all of the scenarios of the evaluation but the suite of Views provided out-of-the-box by Essential Viewer is expanding all the time.  This was recognised within the evaluation – ‘Although the Essential Project does not include many predefined reports, it can be easily extended by custom reports and thus adjusted to the users’ requirements.’
 
We would like to thank the Technical University of Munich for their interest in The Essential Project.  A copy of the report can be found by clicking on the report link below.

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Last Updated on Monday, 11 April 2011 15:08
 
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