BluePrint Foundry - At a glance

Solution BluePrint (SBP) is Zensar’s initiative to incorporate engineering practices in software development. Zensar’s approach goes one step ahead towards building components and focusing on building reusable platform-agnostic models or Solution BluePrints, for platform-specific component generation. Thus the software-architecture designed, developed and modeled on SBP can withstand the test of time.

The BluePrint Foundry (BPF) is at the heart of Solution BluePrint, and is a collaborative framework for capturing business processes (using BPMN 1.0) and modelling/designing software applications. Built on the MDA-paradigm, as an Eclipse-based modeling tool, that is light-weight and intuitive, BPF adopts industry standards such as UML to make the job of a system designer/engineer that much easier.

Key features of BPF

BluePrint Foundry (BPF) is a collaborative framework for capturing business processes (using BPMN 1.0) and modelling/designing software applications. Built on the MDA-paradigm, it supports model-artifacts using the Unified Modeling Langauage (UML).

BPF is an Eclipse-based tool, and leverages many of the  features provided or available within Eclipse, as a platform.

At a glance, the key features of BPF include:

• Software modelling based on MDA paradigm, UML 2.0, BPMN 1.0
• Model-to-model transformation
• Code generation from UML Class Diagram
• Reverse Engineering (from Java)
• Model Interchange based on XMI
• Convenient documentation, with export option

In addition to these, we believe, the following features make BPF stand out from other similar products:

• Real-time collaboration (for all artifacts/models/diagrams)
• Roundtrip Engineering with (external) Eclipse IDE ^{New in v0.4!}
• Accelerators such as BPMN-to-Use Case and Use Case-to-class extraction
• Traceability between any and all model elements (eg. Business Process Diagram to Use Case or Class or vice versa)

Learn More: About BPF |  BPF Features.

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About the BPF Community

The BPF Community is a community of all users of Zensar's BluePrint Foundry tool. This community portal is for users to learn more about BPF as well as interact with other users from around the globe.

You will need to register to be a member of the community portal. Registration is easy, and will take only a few minutes. If you are not already registered, we encourage you to register. Registered users will be able to access the documentation library, wiki, discuss (forums and blog) and collaborate with other users.

More information about BPF can be found on the community portal, once registered.

In case of any assistance, or queries, feel free to get in touch with us. We are just an email (or message) away!