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Use of the Enterprise Model

Equinox Design Corporation uses the Enterprise Model to completely model your business environment before any software code is written. The elements of your business model (business objects and their properties and relationships) can be rapidly drafted and re-drafted as we analyze how your business is modeled and test how well the model correlates to your business solution requirements.

Once the prototype for your business model is finalized, Equinox begins the software coding stage. Business rules and user interfaces are developed over top of the Enterprise Model database layer.

Your business model may also be pre-populated with the actual "real-life" instances of the objects in your business model (eg. actual customers, products, etc.) by importing or converting existing databases.

This thorough conceptual modeling will help ensure that your final application will have the desired functions and features you intended to deliver to your user community. In addition, your application will have the Enterprise Model advantage.

The Enterprise Model Advantage

In addition to the administrative functions defined by your business requirements, your system administrator and IT staff will have access to additional features in the Enterprise Model which comprises two modules: the Enterprise Model Tools and the Information Model.

The Enterprise Model Tools include a hierarchical browser and flexible query tool that allows your system administrator or IT staff to manage the real-life data objects or instances whether it be correcting erroneous entries, adding new data, or using the powerful drag-and-drop capability to completely reorganize data, reporting, or organizational structures.

The Information Model is the unique and powerful metadata modeling tool that allows the system administrator or IT staff to edit and define the business model. It is a drag-and-drop hierarchical browser that give the administrator the power to define new classes of objects, properties of those object classes, and their relationships. It also allows you to define and edit aggregating hierarchical relationships for the purposes of aggregating data for functions such as reporting.

Both modules accelerate the time to adapt the application to match new requirements and minimize the cost of internal or external software development.

In addition to an Application Development Platform for new enterprise-class IT implementations, other uses of the Equinox Enterprise Model include the following:

• Classification Tool for rapidly prototyping business objects during an Object-Oriented Analysis process.
• Conceptual Modeling Tool for analyzing the interrelationships between business objects.
• Corporate Information Directory solution.
• Solution Platform for specialized modeling, asset management, human resource management, or inventory management.

 

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