Enterprise Architect succeeds at taking care of mind boggling frameworks design. It permits me to outwardly outline our whole IT framework, including applications, information bases, and servers. This far reaching view makes it simple to recognize conditions, track changes, and comprehend how various parts connect.

Being a software developer and architect in the Automotive domain for the last 10 years, I can easily say EA is a must tool for every architecture task. I have been using the tool in different Automotive companies, different projects internally, and with OEMs (BMW, Mercedes Benz, and others) and it has great features and capabilities: 1. Requirements traceability and baselines. Many tools provide traceability and REQs like DOORs, but with EA, it's a good advantage that you can create different REQs, link it in the same tool with your design, and in some cases also link it to the code. Hence, you have all in the same tool and can get good traceability reports. 2. Model different diagrams (Use cases, Sequence diagrams, Domain diagrams, ..etc). EA supports different schemas, and UML is the most common one that we use for different Models and diagrams. Colors and options that you can change are great (For example, the layout of the diagram to be automatically aligned is a great feature in complex projects). 3. Generate reports and codes for complex state machines. It's not an easy task to configure EA and generate Code, but for business use cases this is something that the company invested in for long-term benefits, so when you need to change the code, you just change the state machine in EA and generate it. However, not a very optimized code for Automotive, but a step that saves a lot of time. 4. Free available community and training is something that not all closed source tools provide, it's great to still have a community of users that can support and answer your questions, and this is organized on the EA website.

fast requirement gathering and use case to requirement mapping is quick and easy to export. ownership management is easy to track. helps in architecting the systems.