Conceptual and Relational Data Modeling, Business Process Modeling
and UML Modeling Using
Open ModelSphere
Open ModelSphere is a powerful tool for business process, data and UML modeling,
released under GPL (GNU General Public License).
Open ModelSphere
is a complete data modeling tool, that covers conceptual and logical data modeling as well as
physical design, i.e. database modeling (database modelling). It supports several notations, e.g. Entity-Relationship, DATARUN and Information
Engineering. Conceptual models can be converted to relational models and vice versa.
Thanks to its reverse engineering
capabilities, Open ModelSphere allows graphical visualization of your relational
database's architecture, thus making modifications easy. As a complete data modeling
tool / software, it allows the generation of
SQL scripts from your model as well. It can also generate SQL script
enabling you to synchronize your existing database with the model that
you modified. Open ModelSphere supports all the database
management systems in a generic manner. For some of them, like Oracle,
Informix and DB2, Grandite also offers plug-ins,
specific to the various concepts.
Open ModelSphere also includes expert modules
to validate the integrity of your architecture and the coherence of
what you established (meeting the requirements of each DBMS). This
validation expertise will help you save research time among the
multitude of restrictions that exists in each management system.
Open ModelSphere also helps systems
analysts to integrate the
creation of data flow and business process diagrams and to elaborate an
enterprise's workflow and logistics. You can specify resources,
transactions, communicational exchanges, cost calculated in time,
money and effort, etc. Open ModelSphere is not restricted to business process modeling,
but also allows you to set up the technical design at the application system level.
Open ModelSphere supports you to schematize
the various processes' details in a hierarchical manner, thus enabling you to decompose a
process in subprocesses. This way, it is easy to keep an overview,
while having access to a very detailed view of the processes. When
setting the data flow diagram, it becomes easier to design a
relational database that meets the company's needs, hence avoiding loss of
time and money.
Last, but not least - Open ModelSphere provides
the functionality of a rich UML modeling tool / software. You can create Activity, Class,
Collaboration, Component, Deployment,
Package, Sequence, Statechart and Use Case diagrams.
With respect to the coexistence of relational and object-oriented
approaches, class models can be linked to data models. Moreover, class
models can be generated from data models and vice versa.
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