Enterprise Elements, Inc. specializes in Enterprise Architecture tools and methods. Enterprise Elements sells a repository product specifically designed to manage large quantities of Enterprise Architecture and EA-like data in the context of a managed, full-lifecycle process. The product is Web-based and supports versioning, baseline management, complex reporting, user-based views, advanced access control, and relationship visualization with automatically-generated diagrams

Elements Repository

The Enterprise Elements core technology, The Elements Repository, is a configurable database-like product that is designed to allow the rapid construction of complex enterprise-ready systems that solve enterprise-class challenges, such as Enterprise Architecture, Systems Engineering Data Management, Acquisition Process Management, Knowledge Management and many others.

The Elements Repository has applications in any government agency or commercial corporation that must build applications such as these for internal use and to third-party software vendors wishing to offer such products on the market. The use of Elements will significantly increase their productivity and in most cases allow them to build more scalable, robust and complex applications than they would be able to build on their own in any reasonable amount of time.

The Elements Repository can be purchased as a generic technology that businesses and consulting companies can use to create applications that support such functions. At present, a company might buy a database, configure the database, and then use a programming language such as Java or C++ to program the application from scratch. The Elements technology offers the appeal of having many of the characteristics of these large applications, such as security, version control, workflow, Web access, and audit trail, already available “out of the box.” The final step of tailoring Elements to meet the specific needs of the problem at hand is a matter of configuration, not programming. The simple benefit to them is that they can create such applications in a small fraction of the time that it would take them to program them in traditional fashion.

The Elements Repository can be easily integrated with any product that allows import/export of data or has any sort of automation or interfacing capability. Enterprise Elements invests in building these interfaces and welcomes contributions from our partners and customers.

Current Product Integration List:

• Telelogic System Architect – Round-trip between System Architect and the Elements Repository
• Microsoft Project - Round-trip between Microsoft Project and the Elements Repository
• Microsoft Access - Direct data loading from Microsoft Access
• IBM Rational Rose - One-way import of UML data from Rational Rose
• CA ERwin - One-way import of ERwin Version 7 XML files
• Troux Metis Architect - Round-trip between Metis Architect and the Elements Repository

ELEMENTS REPOSITORY DATASHEET

Elements Inside

Elements Inside is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for Oracle that facilitates rapid development and deployment of enterprise Oracle applications.

Unlike traditional RAD tools which focus on physical schema design and custom code development, Elements Inside features an autogenerated schema based on a logical information model. The result is a consistent and elegant schema which includes native implementation of “complex functions” such as history and process.

Elements Inside provides a number of important capabilities irrespective of the kind of information that a customer is managing and irrespective of the processes surrounding that information.
ELEMENTS INSIDE DATASHEET

CIO One-Stop

CIO One-Stop is a solution built on the Elements Repository that takes a fresh approach to the challenges facing every Federal CIO. Typically the CIO must make decisions with limited information from disparate systems. CIO One-Stop puts all that crucial information in one place, using executive dashboard technology to bring together the following disciplines:

• OMB Assessment Reporting
• Transition Planning
• CPIC Integration
• FISMA Compliance
• Dynamic Data Collection and Stakeholder Outreach
• Project/Program Management

CIO ONE-STOP DATASHEET

DoDAF Elements

DoDAF Elements is a CADM-compliant repository that facilitates the consistency, correctness and completeness of DoDAF views and products across multiple modeling tools from various vendors, with various metamodel implementation variants.

The Core Architecture Data Model (CADM) is a formal model of architecture products, structures, and their interrelationships. The DoDAF Elements federated repository facilitates consistency and CADM compliance across all DoDAF views and products. DoDAF Elements features the data-driven generation of selected products and views from information extracted from various modeling tools. The DoDAF Elements CADM implementation allows our clients to manage and gather EA data in exact accordance with the CADM standard. Being based on the CADM standard, DoDAF Elements allows our clients to store architecture products from multiple, framework-based architecture projects in a common way, so that products from different projects, organizations, or Services can be analyzed and compared.

The Elements Repository auto-configures based on the metadata in modeling tools, such as System Architect, so legacy data can be easily loaded, analyzed and managed.

DoDAF Elements is ideally suited to optimize the governance of federated information environments like the Global Information Grid (GIG) which is an information environment composed of interoperable computing and communications components. DoDAF Elements provides a frame of reference at a higher level of abstraction than model-centric tools in support of service-oriented architectural concepts, reference architectures, and reference models. The federated architecture supported by DoDAF Elements allows capital planners to manage and influence the myriad of loosely coupled “nodes on the grid” that are administered by numerous autonomous organizations and entities. The collection, management, and modeling of these service-oriented nodes necessitates user roles, collaboration, process enforcement, and information management that is best facilitated using a repository-centric approach as supported by DoDAF Elements.

DoDAF Elements can easily integrate with other products supporting import/export of data or featuring an interfacing capability. Using DoDAF Elements our clients can integrate metadata from different tools, different model schemas, and different methodologies to provide an integrated and coherent view of enterprise information.
DoDAF ELEMENTS DATASHEET

Elements DSE

The Elements Decision-Support Engine is a low-cost, read-only version of the Elements Repository that allows customers to import data from their legacy EA tools and benefit from Elements' powerful Web-based analysis, visualization and workflow capabilities.

It offers access control, reporting and Portal management features not found in any of the modeling tool Web views and a significantly lower total cost of ownership.
ELEMENTS DSE DATASHEET

Enterprise Elements can be found on the web at www.enterprise-elements.com