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Complex, unintuitive interfaces with a
steep learning curve and extensive training
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✓
A simple, intuitive interface with a
shallow learning curve
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Rigid frameworks — metamodel changes
usually need developers and costly vendor work
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✓
Architects configure their own metamodel
with no code, or start from ready-made
TOGAF, ArchiMate and FEAF
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Bulk import useful only for the initial
data load
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✓
ImpEx applies ongoing bulk changes
throughout, tracking updates to existing
and new objects
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Limited collaboration
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✓
Synchronized multi-user editing with
change notifications, review requests
and a real-time messenger
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Contribution locked behind specialist seats
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✓
Contributor Portal: template-driven
submissions, formally reviewed before
they reach the repository
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Solution documents kept outside the EA tool
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✓
Solution Design Editor: HLDs and LLDs
authored and approved against live
architecture objects
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Hard to deploy across business units
with different needs
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✓
EAXEE Studio: multi-tenant repositories,
each with its own metamodel, governed
from one console
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Arabic supported, but the interface stays
left-to-right
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✓
A complete right-to-left interface,
not just translated content
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Licensing, implementation and maintenance
costs out of reach for SMEs
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✓
Cost-effective for organizations
of every size
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