Enterprise Architecture Practice 3 - Casewise Reporting Capabilities

In general, Reports often use persuasive elements, such as graphics, images, voice, or specialized vocabulary in order to persuade that specific audience to undertake an action.

What are the Casewise Reporting Capabilities?

1. Within Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite - Model Explorer, there are Reports associated with Object and  Administration. This Report mechanism provides a bi-dimensional associations between between Source Object Type and Target Object Type. 

For instance, Application (Source Object Type) could have lots of direct associations (Target Object Types, such as, Entities, Technologies, Process, Location and etc).

This Report mechanism results could save as a Microsoft Execl file. It's a very useful verification mechanism for the migration.

2. Based on the general Reporting definition, Diagrams also are reports.

3. Within Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite - Automodeler, Unload objects from a model as below could lead to File, Microsoft Word document, Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet and Microsoft Project. 

Note:

Automodeler has a command utility (called CWAM.exe), somebody might use this utility to export Excel file, batch parsing Excel file and delivery final Excel format reports. Actually this won't be a best practice, especially with indirect associations object types.

4. Casewise Corporate Modeler Intelligence came into market since October 2009, basically it autoloads (snapshots) from the live Casewise physical DB into a separated Casewise logical DB for reporting, Casewise CMI also provide a (SQL Server Reporting Services based) sample reports. The most impressive one is InDirectAssociationType for Impact Analysis, unfortunately which only has 7 layers (associations) limitation. During the autoloading, an extra Casewise CMI license is acquired. Even based on the Casewise logical DB (with more tables, extra views, functions, stored procedures), the customization for the reporting will still be required.

As an Enterprise Architecture Tools, Reporting capability become more and more crucial for Enterprise Architecture impact analysis.