IBM® Rational® System Architect® enables organizations to plan, control, streamline -- and innovate.
Main features:
- IT planning and optimization - Build an effective IT portfolio by identifying areas for consolidation and reuse and unlocking operational budgets required to fund innovation.
- Maintaining business efficiency - Execute business transformation that helps eliminate organizational waste, resulting in increased productivity.
- Service architecture management - Construct effective solutions out of enterprise and business elements that may create new or updated elements that can be used in future projects.
- More-effective management of systems of systems - Evaluate architectures across multiple systems, perform capability analysis planning and help maximize funding.
- Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and core systems governance - Attain control of your ERP deployments by standardizing components, data and functions as well as understanding dependencies across the organization.
- Harvest and consolidate information, build reports based on Cognos, and perform analysis to guide successful decisions
- Leverage one multi-user environment with support for all areas of modeling, including business and strategy modeling, component and object modeling, data modeling, and more
- System Architect 11.4 now supports enhanced usability, an improved web platform, PowerPoint interoperability, integrations to Asset Management, and support for DoDAF 2.0
We've been using it for years -- UNICOM continues to put many new features in it -- new roadmapping diagram is terrific. We are using it for sysML now too. The SA XT personalized dashboards are also new and really nice -- hit the spot for us. We also use SA Publisher.
This very powerful software is used for modeling a large system. If you need to design a complex system, it is a good choice.