Architecture Design

Visual Modeling for Software Architecture Design.

Creating applications that meet business needs is most important factor in successful software architecture design. Calipus enables you to analyze, design, implement flexible and maintainable software architectures that can be easily altered as requirements change.

A common visual understanding of important decisions also keeps business and system analysts, architects, data modelers and developers in sync—whether they’re changing business processes, creating new applications or extracting design information from existing systems. Integration with leading Requirements Definition and Management solutions allows direct access, reuse and traceability to and from requirements, ensuring that software delivery teams meet customer expectations.

Architecture serves as the blueprint for both the system and the project developing it, defining the work assignments that must be carried out by design and implementation teams. The architecture is the primary carrier of system qualities, such as performance, modifiability, and security, none of which can be achieved without a unifying architectural vision. Architecture is an artifact for early analysis to make sure that the design approach will yield an acceptable system. Architecture holds the key to post deployment system understanding, maintenance, and mining efforts. In short, architecture is the conceptual glue that holds every phase of the project together for all its many stakeholders.

Software Architecture Design process includes

  • Predict, achieve, and control quality attribute behavior and make practical tradeoffs early
  • Greatly reduce the failure rates of software projects
  • Produce a rationale for certain architectural decisions made or not made
  • Communicate with your stakeholders
  • Reason about and manage change
  • Enable more accurate cost and schedule estimates
  • Create evolutionary prototypes
  • Predict and mitigate risks
  • Understand the tradeoffs inherent in the architectures of software-intensive systems
  • Provides insight into how quality goals interact ;that is, how they trade off