Sparx Systems: Platinum Sponsor at Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2016

CRESWICK, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwired - June 14, 2016) - Sparx Systems, a leading agile enterprise architecture platform vendor and recipient of multiple Business/IT industry accolades, will be a Platinum Sponsor of the upcoming Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit held in London during the 15th & 16th of June. A delegation of the firm's senior personnel will be attending the summit, supported by representatives from several key industry groups and solution provider partners.

Chief Operations Officer for Sparx Systems, Tom O'Reilly, will be offering a presentation entitled 'Agile Business Architecture', identifying the challenges of disruptive innovation to organizations. It will highlight the importance of collaboration in developing agile business strategies that successfully navigate a constantly changing business landscape.

Sparx Systems will also be showcasing the flagship collaborative modeling, design and construc- tion platform Enterprise Architect. The recent Beta release of Version 13 offers new and improved capabilities for enterprise architecture as well as software, business and systems development. The company's continual product improvement program incorporates input from over 380,000 licensed end users, service delivery network partners and prominent technical organizations throughout the world.

"The achievements of Enterprise Architect users and their solutions have always been an impressive source of insight," remarked Tom O'Reilly. "In our presentation we have invited some of our most innovative clients to share their experiences, by which we hope to share concrete, real-world examples of disruptive innovation."

Enterprise Architect provides powerful support for business, information, technology and solution architectures through comprehensive enterprise architecture frameworks such as Zachman, TOGAF, UPDM and ArchiMate. An advanced requirements management capability ensures transparency and traceability for all stakeholders, illustrated in a variety of formats according to project roles.

Portfolio management across IT, applications, technologies and projects are all captured, modi- fied and documented by Enterprise Architect, creating a shared repository that can be accessed by distributed teams. To learn more regarding the comprehensive enterprise architecture feature set available within the Sparx Enterprise Architect platform, please visit the company website: www.sparxsystems.com/agileea.

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is a multi-award winning recipient of the SD Times 100 Award and listed in CIO Review's 20 Most Promising Enterprise Technology Providers of 2015.

About Sparx Systems

Sparx Systems is a global software company specializing in high performance visual modeling platforms for planning, designing and constructing software-intensive systems. Sparx platforms are used by systems designers, corporate planners, business analysts, enterprise architects, standards developers and software engineers. Sparx modeling software is widely used in finance, defense, government, aerospace, automotive engineering, geospatial, entertainment, health, smart grid, aviation, retail and telecommunications. Over 80 per cent of Fortune 100 companies have licensed Sparx Systems flagship modeling platform Enterprise Architect.

In the past decade the Sparx user-base has grown from 30,000 to more than 380,000 individuals worldwide. Sparx Enterprise Architect provides robust support for team-wide collaboration, and can scale up from single-user deployment to teams with dozens or even hundreds of collaborators - including remote collaborators. Sparx software is price competitive even when deployed across the entire development team. First developed in 1998, the Sparx Systems' Enterprise Architect modeling platform was commercially released in 2000, and has enjoyed more than 15 years continuous development and growth.

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