We have been impressed by Orbus Software's "iServer" tool which provides a comprehensive database capability to underpin your Microsoft Office created diagrams and objects. Further it offers full analysis and reporting capability at object level. The metamodel is fully customisable and thus completely supports our methodological imperatives of flexibility and focus on the problem-domain.

Accordingly we are now developing an iServer "plug-in" that fully supports our SAM EA methods. This includes a complete set of Visio templates for each facet of the enterprise architecture - organisation, business process, data model, project and programmes, infrastructure, technology - to name some. This is currently undergoing detailed test and refinement on a major European healthcare project and will be released early in 2010.     

Of course, there are a number of other commercial tools available on the market. Beware however of tools that impose a predefined EA model upon you. This might be suitable for your problem but very often it is not.   You need a tool that allows you to define and manage your own EA model. Further we have encountered problems with tools that are too "fine-grained" to manage the breadth and complexity of inter-relationships that the essence of corporate enterprise architectures. Tools originally developed for software development typically do not scale well to business-focused architecture use.

For some years we offered Strategy SAVI^®, the Strategic Architecture Manager and Matrix Manipulator, but this is now in a maintenance only phase.

For existing users, and there are still a number round the world, the user guide is here on line. If you want to browse it click User Guide