Introduction to SparxSystems Enterprise Architect: Documenting Enterprise Architecture in the Most Affordable Enterprise Architecture Suite

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P. DoomenIntroduction to SparxSystems Enterprise Architecthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9312-6_5

5. Using Diagrams to Present Information

Peter Doomen¹  

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Lier, Belgium

 

We from IT are used to work with composite models. Enterprise architecture models are simple.

—John Zachman

In this chapter, you’ll see how to refine cluttered diagrams into something more elegant and fit for presentation – and much more about creating and layouting diagrams, including

• Manual and autolayout

• Copying diagrams

• Diagram types

• How to add colors and legends to diagrams and how to generate a heat map from that

• Using diagram filters to show or hide information

• Work with different views ...