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CSM Import from a Systems Architect 1.5

Li Zhu

Hello everyone, joined the apan community recently for advice.

We have direction to investigate importing of a Systems Architect 1.5 model to CSM using UAF plugin for DoDAF 2.0 Artifact Development.

The program received high level direction to move to CSM but their architecture is in Systems Architect with DoDAF 1.5 artifacts. Ideally, we would like to use a tool that would convert this 1.5 model to CSM while retaining all of the architecture diagrams. Is there anyone who has experience with this process? 

Initial investigation led us to Sodius tools, I believe these include plugins that allows CSM to import from System Architect 1.5 but one program we talked to did a cost analysis in which converting their model using this tool was more expensive than recreating the architecture due to their original model being very large and complex. My impression is that this tool works well with small models only.

Does anyone else have a different experience and/or other potential paths we may be able to investigate.

 

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  • I have found that the Sodius tool is the only game in town. We are doing a migration from Systems Architect 11.x to Cameo Enterprise Architecture 2021x and have way too much data to start from Scratch. Additionally, if you have customization in SA they will port to Cameo (CSM or CEA), so those won't be lost. Of course the bad news is the cost. Depending upon how many licenses of SA you have this won't might be a big upfront cost, but in following years you won't incur the SA maintenance. Wish I had better news for you, but your choices are build it from scratch or buy a license from Sodius. I can tell you from personal experience, that the Sodius tool does work.
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  • I have found that the Sodius tool is the only game in town. We are doing a migration from Systems Architect 11.x to Cameo Enterprise Architecture 2021x and have way too much data to start from Scratch. Additionally, if you have customization in SA they will port to Cameo (CSM or CEA), so those won't be lost. Of course the bad news is the cost. Depending upon how many licenses of SA you have this won't might be a big upfront cost, but in following years you won't incur the SA maintenance. Wish I had better news for you, but your choices are build it from scratch or buy a license from Sodius. I can tell you from personal experience, that the Sodius tool does work.
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