The Essential Project
Building a community supported by free, open source tools
The Essential Project is not only about the tools. It provides a useful, active forum for sharing ideas and experiences of applying Enterprise Architecture practices to real world business problems - working together to shape the development of relevant tools.
Apply Enterprise Architecture in the real world
The Essential Project is a set of open source, enterprise architecture support tools developed to be used with a variety of EA approaches and frameworks. 'Essential' because these tools are focused on providing 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.
The Essential Project is not only about the tools. It provides a useful, active forum for sharing ideas and experiences of applying Enterprise Architecture practices to real world business problems - working together to shape the development of relevant tools.
Apply Enterprise Architecture in the real world
The Essential Project is a set of open source, enterprise architecture support tools developed to be used with a variety of EA approaches and frameworks. 'Essential' because these tools are focused on providing 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.
Essential Meta-Model
The Essential Architecture Meta Model, is a detailed, extensible, yet easy-to-use meta model for describing an enterprise from top to bottom. Essential Architecture Meta Model is published as open source and is available for use in any modelling toolset. Read More
Essential Architecture Manager
Essential Architecture Manager is the reference implementation of the Essential Architecture Meta Model and includes advanced tools for both capturing and applying complex analysis to your architecture. This open-source toolkit is entirely free to download and use under the GNU GPL v3 license. Read More
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See how Essential Architecture Manager can help you manage your enterprise architecture in the Essential demonstration videos. Read More
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Download it
Download the free, open-source Enterprise Architecture Manager toolkit and get started today.
Analyse it
Thanks to the detail of the meta model that is used to capture the aspects of your architecture that you need, complex analysis is provided out of the box. However, it is easy to create your own analysis reports.
What's New
| New Release of Essential Viewer |
A new release of Essential Viewer is now available that includes a number of improvements and bug fixes. |
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| Updated Application Service Views |
An update to the Application Service views of Essential Viewer has been released to support Composite Application Services. |
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| 'Calling All SME's Who Need Help Understanding their Business Assets' article published in IT Business Edge - March 2010 |
We are pleased to announce that an article by Sarah Smith of EAS Ltd, our sponsor company, has been published in this week’s issue of IT Business Edge. |
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Model it
Get started quickly with tutorials that focus on the tasks that you need for your requirements. You don't need to model the entire enterprise or complete all the tutorials to get modelling and get the benefits.
Share it
Share your experience of applying the Essential Project to real-world problems. See where others are gaining real benefit from the practical application of enterprise architecture and share new components and reports.
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