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About the Essential Project
Mission

 

The goal of The Essential Project is to promote the value that enterprise architecture can bring to organisations of all sizes and experience by lowering barriers to entry with a free, simple, productive and, most importantly, effective set of supporting tools

 
Background

The Essential project was conceived by Enterprise Architecture Solutions Ltd (EAS), a specialist consultancy in enterprise architecture since 2000.

EAS passionately believe that Enterprise Architecture (EA), if properly implemented and managed, can provide huge benefits to organisations of all shapes and sizes, both in the short and long term, and believe that the availability of free open source tools is important to its ongoing growth and adoption.
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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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Essential Project Licensing

The Essential Project toolset is open source and has been used and tested extensively in a production environment. These tools are available for use by any individual or organisation free of charge, with no initial or on-going support or maintenance charges, under the GNU General Public License.
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How Do I Get Started?

To get started, please go to the Downloads section of the site.

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