Use & Benefit

Open ModelSphere ...

... Provides benefits in all phases of software development projects,
e.g. analysis, business process modeling, conceptual data modeling, logical data modeling, design, physical data / database modeling, database / code generation, database / code reverse engineering

... Is compatible to various software development approaches,
e.g. Zachman Framework, DATARUN

... Supports business process modeling and data modeling based on traditional methods,
e.g. Structured Analysis, Merise, Entity-Relationship

... Features UML modeling supported by several diagrams,
e.g. Activity, Class, Collaboration, Component, Deployment, Package, Sequence, Statechart, Use Case

... Allows links among relational and object-oriented approaches

... Supports graphical representations in multiple notations,
e.g. data flow diagram (Gane - Sarson, Yourdon - de Marco, ...), process tree, entity-relationship diagram (Chen, Information Engineering, ...), UML

... Includes forward and reverse engineering / re-engineering of SQL databases via ODBC and/or JDBC

... Supports international standards,
e.g. Java, UML, XML

... Can be installed on virtually any operating system (that supports a Java VM),
e.g. Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris and other Unix platforms