Visual Paradigm for UML
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| Developer: | Visual Paradigm International Ltd. |
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| Latest release: | 6.0 Service Pack 1 / March 05, 2007 |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | UML CASE Tool |
| License: | Proprietary with Free Community Edition |
| Website: | http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml/ |
Visual Paradigm for UML is a UML CASE Tool supporting latest version of Unified Modeling Language(UML) and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) from Object Management Group (OMG). In addition to the UML modeling support, it provides business process modeling, object-relational mapping generator for Java, .NET and PHP. There is free Community Edition for non-commercial use. There are range of commercial editions priced from USD 99 to USD 1399. The main different between Visual Paradigm for UML and other UML CASE Tool in markets is Visual Paradigm is focus on usability. There are number of usability features are unique in Visual Paradigm for UML.
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[edit] UML Modeling
Visual Paradigm for UML supports 13 UML diagrams. All supported UML diagrams are list below
- Class diagram
- Use case diagram
- Sequence diagram
- Communication diagram
- State machine diagram
- Activity diagram
- Component diagram
- Deployment diagram
- Package diagram
- Object diagram
- Composite structure diagram
- Timing diagram
- Interaction overview diagram
[edit] Requirement Management
[edit] Business Process Modeling
Visual Paradigm for UML Enterprise Edition supporting latest version of BPMN . There are two Business Process Modeling Diagrams. They are Business Process Diagram (BPD) and Data Flow Diagram (DFD). BPD is design for modeling business activity within and between organization. The BPMN is a simple yet powerful notation for modeling workflow. BPMN is design for both Business Analyst and IT Professional.
DFD is another important tool for Business Analyst to model data and document flow in the real world or in IT system.
[edit] Database Modeling
There are two data modeling diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) and Object Relational Mapping Diagram (ORM Diagram). ERD is used to model the relational database. The ORM Diagram is design for model and present mapping between class and entity. The ORM Diagram is one of the tool to show the mapping between class from object-oriented world and entity in relational database world.
