Customizing Artifact Format/Modeling Tools
Hello,
I work for Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) in the Business Analysis Center of Excellence (BACoE), and we're piloting the Rational Software for our enterprise-wide BA Department.
So far things are going fairly well with the application as a whole, but there is one major blocker we're trying to workaround.
Creating Business Models (Data Flow Diagrams, Event Diagrams, Context Diagrams) is a very big part of what we do. So far, my experence with the diagramming tools on Rational has not been good. The capabilities are very limited.
- Are there any plans to include a more robust diagramming engine? Something along the lines of Lucidchart or Visio? Top priorities would be to be able to do custom stencils and curved lines, in a sandbox-style expandable document (not limiting where things can be placed)
- Is it possible to customize Artifact Formats at all?
- Is there any way to include directionality in the Associations, instead of just a solid line? I think we will otherwise be able to use the use case diagrams, but the UC tool is still missing a couple things to fully replace our offline tools.
For now we'll be uploading JPEGs, but it is a very unfortunate limitation, as we won't be able to trace into the granular elements of the models in the JPEG.