What is the Architecture Repository application?
The Architecture Repository is the Dragon1 Application you can use to document your architecture data. It is the perfect storage and management of data, as well as all elements of the enterprise. This is your CMDB tool.
With the architecture repository, you can build a single source of truth for all your data. This increases productivity because people can find the right version of the data they are looking for much more quickly.
Screenshot of Architecture Repository showing a list of Business Capabilities.
You can enter entity data and combine it into lists called catalogs, and then manage and moderate these catalogs. Above, you see a list of business capabilities that can be turned into a catalog and then reused over and over again in models, views, and visualizations.
Entering Rich Data
The architecture repository application supports you in entering rich data. Not only can the name, descr, type, and title of a data item be entered. You can define as many attributes as you like. You can even define new entity classes and entity types.
Screenshot of Architecture Repository showing a Business Capability from a list (catalog).
Above, you see a business capability selected. You can add any number of attributes with data types and value ranges.
Import and Export of Data
To increase your productivity even more, Dragon1 provides a flexible import and export functionality.
Any .dragon1 file, .d1 file, .doc file, .ppt file, .vsd file, .xls file, .txt file, .csv file, .xml file, or common open format file can be imported (intelligently).
Screenshot of Architecture Repository showing the quick and easy Import Dialog for CSV files.
Suppose you want or need to export some or all data from your account. You can choose to export it in any common & open format like .dragon1, .d1, .pdf, .xml, .txt, and .csv
Free Structure For Data Storage
The Architecture Repository provides you with a free and flexible logical structure in which you can store your data items. There are three structure elements: Cabinets, Dossiers, and Folders.
A cabinet is the highest structure element. A cabinet contains one or more dossiers. A dossier contains one or more folders. You can create as many cabinets, dossiers, and folders as you like within a single account. You can store as many data items in a folder as you like.
400+ Data Entity Classes to Choose From
Dragon1 has 400+ entity classes built-in; you can enter data immediately. Here is a list of the entity classes you can enter data for.
The most important entity classes with regards to enterprise architecture you can store data items for are architecture, structure, enterprise, business, capability, function, process, product, service, application, need, requirement, stakeholder, owner/client, concept, element, component, object, building block, principle, pattern, view, viewpoint, rule and design. And many, many more.
Supported Languages
This wide range of predefined entity classes ensures you can work with any framework, method, approach, language, or standard on Dragon1.
Dragon1 supports document data for the following languages:
Below, you can see our entity classes' common shapes or symbols (from the Dragon1 EAML). The architecture repository also supports working only with the ArchiMare, BPMN, or UML shapes.
Screenshot of the most important data entity classes (1).
Screenshot of the most important data entity classes (2).
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Database and Role-Based Access Control
All the data users enter on Dragon1 is stored in our secure data center databases. Every Dragon1 account has its database instance. Data in accounts is mixed but stored separately. These are called multitenant databases.
On Dragon1, every user login is connected to an account, and an account can have many user logins. This means you can work together on one repository and share data individually or as a team. The creator of a cabinet, dossier, folder, or data item controls access to the data. The admin login of the account controls who has privileges for a set of actions.
Meta Meta Modeling
The architecture repository enables you to create relationships between data items. And by doing this, you create models.
The architecture repository enables you to create meta models, user models, and instance modes. For example, a metamodel could consist of entity classes such as 'process' and 'application', and a rule stating that every process must be supported by at least one application. A user model could exist of entity types like 'sales process' and 'procurement process' and a 'CRM application' that supports both processes.
You can choose whether this user model must comply with the metamodel. An instance model could exist out of the instances of the processes and applications. Maybe the organization has five locations where the sales process is executed, and maybe there are ten installations of the CRM system.
Screenshots of the Architecture Repository
The Folder List View
Create Links
Typical Application Landscape Data
Example Generated Enterprise Architecture Dossier
Dragon1 provides you with an EA Dossier Standard. By default, the Enterprise Architecture Repository opens with 'My Cabinet', which contains all the folders and empty files that are part of the EA Dossier standard. This saves you time and resources, preventing you from reinventing the wheel. Of course, you can rename the cabinet or dossier and edit, delete, and create folders and files.
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