Sparx Systems is an Australian

software company A software company is a company whose primary products are various forms of software, software technology, distribution, and software product development. They make up the software industry. Types There are a number of different types of soft ...

founded by Geoffrey Sparks in 1996 in Creswick, Victoria in Australia, known for the development of the

Unified Modeling Language The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental modeling language in the field of software engineering that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system. The creation of UML was originally ...

tool Enterprise Architect. Sparx Systems specializes in the development of visual tools for planning, design and development of software intensive systems. This company is known for the development of Enterprise Architect released in 2000, which is nowadays considered one of the more advanced tool sets for UML. In 2006 the company was among the first manufacturers to support the OMG

Systems Modeling Language The Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is a general-purpose modeling language for systems engineering applications. It supports the specification, analysis, design, verification and validation of a broad range of systems and systems-of-systems. ...

(SysML).Tim Weilkien (2008) ''Systems Engineering with SysML/UML: Modeling, Analysis, Design''. p.17 Sparx Systems is a member of the

Object Management Group The Object Management Group (OMG) is a computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a range of technologies. Business activities The goal of the OMG was a common portable and interoperab ...

(OMG).

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