Telelogic® System Architect for DoDAF Interface™ (ABM)

ABM is an activity-based, architecture framework methodology created by The MITRE Corporation for modeling DoDAF.

The Activity-based Methodology's approach to architecture development enables:

  • Core architecture data to be formed into Information Exchanges and System Data Exchanges
  • Information Exchanges and System Data Exchanges to generate Operational and Systems Views
  • Data consistency in resultant Operational and Systems Products
  • Quality enterprise architecture and analysis products (by eliminating user inputs) that speeds up the entire enterprise architecture development process.

Telelogic® System Architect®'s support for ABM includes all necessary modeling artifacts and automation for certain aspects of ABM to accelerate and help simplify the implementation of DoDAF.

 

Automation of Operational Views (OV)

Telelogic System Architect's ABM support provides the following automated features for Operational Views:

  • Matrices that enable you to specify Operational Nodes that Operational Activities are performed on, and the role(s) that perform the activity on that node
  • Automatic generation of a hierarchy of OV-5 Activity models from an OV-5 Node Tree diagram
  • Automatic generation of Information Exchange Requirements
  • Automatic generation and maintenance of Need Lines on OV-2 diagrams
  • A Need Line Navigator that enables you to navigate operational nodes and view information exchanges and neighboring nodes
  • Automatic generation of OV-3 Operational Information Exchange matrices.

 

Automation of System Views (SV)

Telelogic System Architect's ABM support provides the following automated features for System Views:

  • Automatic Generation of a hierarchy of SV-4 Data Flow diagrams from an SV-4 Functional Decomposition diagram
  • Matrices that enable you to build traceability between System Functions, System Nodes, and System Entities
  • A System Function to Operational Activity Matrix provides a link between the operational and systems views
  • Automatic generation of System Data Exchange, System Node Interface, and System Interface Line definitions
  • Automatic rendering of SV-1 Systems Interface Diagrams to Analyze System Data Exchanges. Telelogic System Architect maintains information in the repository about each artifact and its relationship with others
  • A System Interface Line Navigator that enables you to view system entities, the system nodes that they are connected to, and the System Data Exchanges
  • Autogeneration of SV3, the Systems to Systems Matrix workproduct
  • Autogeneration of the SV-6 Systems Data Exchange Matrix.

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