Modeling with Technology FrameWork

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What’s in this chapter
Ptech FrameWork is a powerful, object-oriented modeling tool that
lets you capture, manage, analyze, and make full use of the
knowledge capital of your enterprise. Its extensible, metamodelbased
infrastructure ensures that you can model both business and
application systems to the level of detail you choose, using the
approach you prefer.
This chapter contains general information about FrameWork
models. It includes an overview of the types of models FrameWork
directly supports and explains how information about models is
presented in the remainder of this book.
If you have Enterprise FrameWork Professional, you can create
new types of models and the tools to build them. For information
on creating your own model types, see Customizing FrameWork.
About FrameWork models
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Models and metamodels A FrameWork model is a structured representation of objects
relevant to a specific view of a particular knowledge domain. Each
model is built from a predefined set of semantic constructs. These
semantic building blocks, as well as the rules and constraints that
Chapter 1: Introduction to FrameWork Models
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