Sparx Systems is an Australian software company founded by Geoffrey Sparks in 1996 in

Creswick, Victoria Creswick is a town in west-central Victoria, Australia, 18 kilometres north of Ballarat and 122 kilometres northwest of Melbourne, in the Shire of Hepburn. It is 430 metres above sea level. At the 2016 census, Creswick had a population ...

in Australia, known for the development of the

Unified Modeling Language The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose visual modeling language that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system. UML provides a standard notation for many types of diagrams which can be roughly ...

tool

Enterprise Architect Enterprise architecture (EA) is a business function concerned with the structures and behaviours of a business, especially business roles and processes that create and use business data. The international definition according to the Federation of ...

. 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

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 (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 Development Organization (SDO), or Voluntary Consensus Standards Body (VCSB). OMG develops enterprise integration and modeling standards for a range of technologies. Busin ...

(OMG).

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