What are the modelling requirements to get the Technology Product Summary view on the Essential Viewer to depict the "Used to Implement Technology Components" section correctly, I cannot seem to change the condition "Waiver Required" no matter how many combinations of "techn...

Thanks Neil. Thanks, its good to know that I was under the correct assumption, my concern is that we would probably have to do a little more than change the object type, I am thinking that composite application providers will have different maintained attributes to the application providers i.e in t...

From my understanding the Essential Meta-model, the Application provider class is used to represent the logical Business Systems in place within the organisation, however, I would like to know how the Modules of a particular application are defined, An example SAP Financials contains modules Supply ...

After some playing around. I think i got it working. You need more than one instance of Technology Composite One composite model will be used to render the graphic. and that composite will utilise the composites for which you have defined a reference architecture. so: Create one technology composite...

I am trying to model an information reference model/semantic model (eg the TMForum SID) within Essential. My current thinking was to use the following classes: Business Domain: 5+/-2 classes representing the business domains eg.(Customer domain, Service domain, Product domain) Information Concept: h...

jonathan.carter wrote: We are already exploring open-source BPM tools and how we would work along side them to provide the power of BPM with the power of the architectural perspective of the processes.

Jonathan

Has any further development/progress happened in this space?

I would like to know the best/recommended way to implement a set of process models whereby the construct of process leveling is maintained, namely the following levels: L0: The enterprise model (value chain) L1: Macro processes L2: Business Process L3: Sub-Process L4: Activity L5: Task In keeping wi...

One thing to note is that the essential publisher will publish to the URL specified in the publish window.. (location pointing to the viewers tomcat webapps directory) you will need to make sure that the publisher url is the same as the one you are viewing in your browser i.e (http://localhost:8080/...

Thanks, i will try this route. Was trying to generate the org viewpoints in the viewer.

Hi, Thanks Paul, I will try the architecture states. I also find the architecture state may not handle process variants, where elements of the process deviate from the norm (ie, some remaining portion of the process remain the same) The architecture state attribute assumes only one state at a time. ...

I see that the Essential Viewer has a view that generates an org model. I would like to know where the organisation elements are created within the meta-model? i would imagine that organisation design would be part of the business domain, however the only thing that i see is the Site-Category class....

Hi, what is the best method for as-is and to-be modelling in Essential, Specifically to maintain an application portfolio as well as business processes. I am thinking that the applications will have life-cycle attributes associated to them (ie, operational, review, decommissioned) the problem comes ...

Hi, Please help, i am trying to generate the class (to import a list of "Application" class... please can you provide the code to generate this, i have looked at the readme file, but still cannot come right. this is my code: (for location C:\Essential) 1: execfile("C:\Essential\\gener...

Hi, I would like to know if there are any plans to port Essential to the newer release of Protege? (ie OWL).
Thanks