UML & SysML modelling languages

Released in November 2024, Prolaborate 5.4 introduces new features:

• Integration Map: new chart to visualize information flows or connections between repository elements.
  • Example: application data flows.
• Dashboards widget to render several dashboards within a "master" dashboard.
  • Benefits:
    • Integrate the content from multiple dashboards within a single page, preventing from navigating between different dashboards.
    • Publish selected dashboards on a single dashboard for a dedicated group of users.
• Access to Enterprise Architect discussions from Prolaborate.
• Identification of external sources with a specific link, visible on diagrams via a specific visual.
• Improved search with new criteria: attributes, operations, custom properties (tagged values).
• New Prolaborate API.

Main improvements:

• Sharing links for custom reports.
• Roadmap Chart enhancements: display of the current date, handling of phases without an end date (indefinitely extended).
• Modify connectors names and descriptions within Prolaborate.
• Management of complex tagged values from installed MDG technologies (e.g., ArchiMate customization with stereotypes via a meta-model).

This article presents a selection of Prolaborate 5.4 improvements.

This article is an overview of the main enhancements available in the upcoming Prolaborate 5.2, a follow up from Prolaborate 5.1 review.

• Multi-Factor Authentication support.
• Version Explorer.
• Custom elements icons and default analyzer colours.
• Dynamic charts enhancement.

Following my previous article about Prolaborate 4.4, I tested the latest version 5.1 released in October.

Prolaborate 5 maintains the same user interface as Prolaborate 4, making it simple to upgrade from a user perspective.

Main enhancements:

• New Lifecycle Roadmap chart.
• Dynamic charts.
• Reports: columns filters, inline content editing, Excel export.
• Card Widgets: quick and easy overview of the repository or project data by highlighting business information or key metrics.
• Dashboards export/import. 
• Rich Text Editor.

First released in October 2021, Prolaborate 4 is a full redesign of the web application from the previous version 3 for a better user experience, improved performance, to be Cloud ready, more scalable, and more secure.

Since it has completely been rebuilt, Prolaborate 4 delivers most features available in Prolaborate 3, and progressively supporting missing ones as new releases are published.

After 2 and half years since its first release, Prolaborate 4.4 is now available with new features such as the awaited capability to download data from reports to a CSV file, whilst the next release 4.5 should support the Relationship Matrix.

This article is a preview about Prolaborate 4 with examples illustrating the new user experience from this powerful and comprehensive web solution of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect models.

Prolaborate 3.6 web solution for Enterprise Architect is a new release available to download from Sparx Systems registered user area.

This article illustrates enhancements on the "EA Reports" widget and a new feature to create relationships between elements.

Prolaborate 3.3 has just been published. This article illustrates some of the main improvements.

• Integration with third party applications
  • ** New Microsoft Teams support to share diagrams and views from Enterprise Architect in Teams conversations, and provide an easy access to Prolaborate.
  • Azure DevOps Server version support.
• Discussions
  • ** New Discussions Dashboard widgets to provide a convenient control and access to specific discussions, reviews and threads.
  • Support to create Discussions on Connectors.
• Convenient access to download Prolaborate and Pro Cloud Server logs from Prolaborate web interface (Health Checks page).
• Connectors tagged values are now support (displayed in the properties view).

Data Models generated via a reverse engineering from an existing Database in Enterprise Architect modelling tool can be shared dynamically with Prolaborate web solution. 

This article illustratse the use of a profile that I defined to customize the level of details for a Physical Data Model that is visible to Prolaborate users.