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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

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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

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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

Demo Videos

Essential Architecture Manager Demo Videos

 

See how Essential Architecture Manager v1.x can help you manage your enterprise architecture in the Essential demonstration videos.

New demonstration videos for version 3.0 will follow shortly, in the meantime there are a series of screenshots of example views available to provide further detail.

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Redefining Enterprise Architecture Management - Essential 3.0

Version 3 marks a step change for Essential Architecture Manager incorporating many additions and enhancements that have been in development over the past year or so. The new version is available for download now, and we will shortly be releasing an upgrade pack to move existing users to the new version.

Featuring an extended Essential Meta-Model, a completely overhauled Viewer and an improved platform, Essential Architecture Manager v3 provides an activity focused, easy to use tool that allows all stakeholders to realise the true value of EA.

Essential Viewer3 provides an EA management hub which delivers a wealth of dynamically produced Views to enable dedicated support for key business and IT management activities such as Strategy Management, Change Management, Information/Data and Security Management amongst others.  Focused activity packs ease the burden of information capture, and deliver interactive Views that ensure successful engagement with key stakeholders - providing the insights they need to define and manage business/IT transformation.

Driven through feedback from real world projects and the Essential Community, this release provides a new and flexible way for organisations to manage, explore and analyse an Enterprise Architecture.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 May 2012 08:48
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Download it

Download ItDownload the free, open-source Enterprise Architecture Manager toolkit and get started today.

 

Analyse it

Analyse ItThanks 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

Essential Viewer Patch Update Released

A patch update (now with installer) for Essential Viewer has been released to fix the issues reported with the Strategy Management pack.

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Essential Widgets Update Release
A new, update release of the Essential Widgets, containing a bug fix and new features, is now available to download.
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Windows 7 Installation

A new version of the installer for Essential Architecture Manager released to better-support Windows 7.

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Model it

Model ItGet 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 ItShare 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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