Application quality and developer productivity keep software development projects on track and ensure long-term stability. Disparate development project members and different code languages, however, can often derail the most organized software development project. Embarcadero Describe Enterprise solves this problem by providing a model-driven analysis, design, and development environment that leverages the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML).

Describe Enterprise reduces complexity and increases visual clarity in any type of software development project, ensuring a sound architecture is established and communicated throughout the Enterprise. Its rich feature set enables collaboration between everyone in the enterprise with a stake in the software development lifecycle, from Business Unit Manager to System Requirements Architect to Project lead to Application Developers working in Java, .NET, Visual Basic, C++, C#, and more.

Describe Enterprise provides your development organization with a "neutral" modeling platform supporting all major leading code languages including Java/J2EE, Microsoft .NET/C++/C#/Visual Basic, and others. The result is greater flexibility in new application development on the best platform to solve the business problem with no hardware or software vendor lock-in involved.

Working in your favorite coding environment (“IDE”) leads to increased productivity. The downside, however, is the tedious chore associated with keeping application model documentation in synch with developers code. Describe Enterprise offers industry leading embedded integration with all leading IDEs. The result is a seamless, single, integrated modeling and development environment. Out of the box, Describe embeds itself in the IDE of your choice. The seamless IDE integrations provide a unified modeling and development environment. Regardless of the IDE you choose, Describe Enterprise offers you the following benefits:

• Superior code point-and-click visual model navigation
• Powerful IDE HTML documentation engines
• Wizard-driven automation of common tasks such as code reverse engineering
• Live, bidirectional (Round-Trip) model and source code synchronization
• Model-driven version control

Describe Enterprise leads the industry in complying with the latest and forthcoming OMG™ specifications. It provides complete support for the Unified Modeling Language. Describe Enterprise supports all models, objects, attributes, and defined relationships in the UML. And you’ll find Web Application Extensions, ICONIX, and as well as functionality that enables you to define and associate new stereotypes to extend the UML.

Describe provides the option to enable live Java and Visual Basic 6 round trip engineering. Best-in-class round-trip engineering allows users to automatically synchronize UML class and interaction diagrams with source code. Users can also review and update source comments via the Advanced Documentation Editor and integrate JavaDoc tags into source code. Describe generates standards-based source code without the clutter of third party comments or tags. As you visually refactor classes, attributes, data-types, and methods via class and interaction diagrams the source code reflects the changes and updates instantaneously.

Describe Enterprise includes a Design Center that supports pattern-driven modeling, which streamlines the application development process and eliminates redundant workflow. Pattern-driven modeling reduces the repetition in the model-driven design process. Describe allows users to take advantage of out-of-the-box wizard-driven patterns, including EJB and GoF patterns. Users can customize and apply user-defined patterns, to set design standards and enforce reuse throughout the organization.

The value of UML modeling should extend beyond just drawing and communicating pretty pictures. It should allow for reuse of critical metadata these models store behind the picture. To this end, Describe’s entire architecture and file system leverages the Object Management Group’s XMI® "flavor" of XML, ensuring that valuable information captured in its UML diagrams can be leveraged for a variety of purposes such as integration with other modeling and repository environments, custom reporting through XSLT systems and robust user customization to extend the product to manage more customer-specific data not provided for out of the box.

Developers and business analysts often have varying requirements for their modeling environment. Describe Enterprise includes an Advanced Preferences Editor that allows the customization of the modeling environment to cater to different needs. The Advanced Preferences Editor offers granular control over the design environment, which results in productivity gains. As business or project needs evolve, users can globally update and broadcast changes to many objects and default properties through the Advanced Preferences Editor.

Describe Enterprise offers advanced diagramming and navigation capabilities. Using the predefined diagram layout templates, users can create circular, hierarchical, orthogonal, symmetric, or tree style diagrams with a click of a button. Describe's Overview Window and Navigation Links allow you to navigate and manage large and complex diagrams easily. The advanced zooming commands allow drilling in and out of diagram elements quickly and with greater efficiency.

Application migration can be a painful process. Describe Enterprise offers excellent reverse engineering functionality that lets you create UML class and interaction diagrams from existing Java, C#, C++ and Visual Basic source code. Its powerful code reverse-engineering capabilities provide an immediate picture of existing structures. By leveraging Describe's reverse-engineering capabilities, users can reduce the time and effort required to build new applications.

Describe Enterprise provides seamless integration with commercial source code control and version management packages including Perforce, Microsoft Source Safe®, Merant PVCS™., Borland StarTeam, IBM ClearCase, and CVS. Describe supports these SCCI compliant configuration/versioning management applications for Microsoft Windows. You can place projects under a central version control system with just a few mouse clicks, enabling multiple developers to work on the same project. The granularity of Describe's versioning capabilities allows users to version any metadata including diagrams, classes, packages, use cases, actors, and etc.

Describe Enterprise includes a live, bidirectional bridge with Embarcadero ER/Studio®, allowing you to leverage the expertise and advantages of both the UML and ER domains. It includes simple wizards that step you through the set-up of basic relationships as well as an advanced mapping interface that allows you to set up sophisticated one-to-many mappings. Live round-trip synchronization ensures that your associations remain intact as your projects progress.

Detailed engineering documentation communicates business logic used in systems and improves business processes. The result is greater overall business efficiency and reduced costs. Describe Enterprise gives you the ability to automatically create detailed documentation. You can export both text and embedded graphics to HTML, allowing you to effectively communicate system details, properties, and relationships to other team members – even those without Describe installed. You can also create templates and customize the HTML reports to match your company's corporate standards.

Describe Enterprise’s enhanced Web reports features re comprehensive.

• Customize report details
• Specify diagrams or models to include/exclude
• Save reports for future generation
• Create report templates (Customer Report, Management Report, Enterprise Report, etc.)

By customizing Describe Enterprise to fit into your development process, you can create your own consistency and synchronization rules, code-generation standards, and attach methods to "triggers" that execute when defined Describe events take place. Describe Enterprise supports scripting in any language that has access to the COM runtime including Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Basic? and Java, removing the need to learn proprietary languages. Robust ad hoc VBA macros can be created through the built-in VBA Editor to generate customizable reports for your organization.