Amarco Designer

Graphical designer for an information repository

Amarco Designer implements a service oriented component design method : graphical design, assembly and reuse, store the result in a database.

On an existing design, you can map a service oriented process using current service point and services definitions.

• Define external and internal architecture of systems
• Display with a great graphical quality the relationship between systems
• Build and develop a repository (an organized inventory), insuring the storage for systems, service points, services descriptions and relationships.
• Define dynamically the system processes insuring a high coherence with the system structure and the associated services

Amarco Designer allows you to manage the systems as in real life:

• Define assemblies of objects in a structure
• Decompose a complex system into its component parts

Amarco Designer uses Microsoft Visio to build graphically your application. It can read your design and store the associated information in the repository database.

All objects in the database are available to you to create new solutions. Amarco Designer sets up automatically links between compatible systems.

A specially designated toolbar enable the design and the Visio - database relation.

Amarco designer - Define / modify an object

How to use Amarco Designer

You define the architecture of your systems. You can search for systems already defined. This allows you to make new assemblies of existing systems. You define the service exchanges between systems, the requested and rendered services, as well as "service qualities" like time, cost associated to services.
Your design with systems and structures is saved to the repository. It becomes available for other designs. If the information that you designed is appropriate, Amarco Designer redraws  automatically your systems, by setting the service points and the connections.
You can build dynamically processes that are mapped to the structure of your system. These processes use only the services defined before. This way you insure a permanent compatibility the service repository
You can animate locally the process designed. The process is also saved to the repository, so you can exploit its related information later.

The data stored in the repository define formally your system. They will be used by Amarco Cartography tools to create automatically graphical representations.