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    <title>Karen Lopez: Musings on Data, Process, and Architecture </title>
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      <title>Visible Analyst - Data Modeling, Process Modeling, and UML</title>
      <description>&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img height="225" alt="" width="312" align="left" vspace="5" src="/Portals/0/ZFrameSm.jpg" /&gt;What is Visible Analyst and Visible Advantage?&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;InfoAdvisors.com offers two Visible System's related discussion groups for users of Visible Systems' Visible Analyst and Visible Advantage.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Visible Analyst is a modeling tool offered by Visible Systems, Inc. at &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.visible.com/?infoadvisors.com"&gt;visible.com&lt;/a&gt; .  This tools supports data, process, and UMl modeling, as well as the Zachman Framework, as you can see from the screen shot on the left.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Visible Analyst supports modeling from strategic planning through working with databases.  It supports ERDs, Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), Functional Decompositions, Structure Charts, Class Modeling, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It includes sub-modeling, an extensible repository, conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling, simple versioning, and change control.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Visible.com offers a free trial download, as well as pricing and licensing information.  Of note, all licenses are floating, meaning that a license is not tied to a user or machine.  Also, Visible offers very attractive academic licensing. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Visible Advantage and Universal Data Models&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Visible.com also offers Visible Advantage, another multi-level, multi model tool.  You may also purchase a Universal Data Model edition that comes with template or pattern data models .&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;InfoAdvisors can assist you in evaluating modeling tools to meet your specific needs and environment. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 03:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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