A framework is a tool for thinking about the information you need to capture in the enterprise, and a vehicle for organizing, displaying, and accessing that information. System Architect provides a Framework Browser that enables you to view and access the models and artifacts you have developed in the repository through a framework interface. It supports all popular frameworks in the industry, such as the Zachman Framework, DoDAF (C4ISR Framework), and TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework).

System Architect provides perhaps the richest set of business modeling diagrams on the market, to enable you to capture the entire enterprise from various business perspectives -- from high-level business objectives and organizational makeup, through event-driven business process and functional modeling, organizational modeling, design of the applications and databases that make the business run, to network architecture of where everything is. System Architect supports the new Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) notation as well as the IDEF methodology. Using either notation and method, you can design new or redesign existing business processes to implement the most cost-effective and competitive business processes possible.

System Architect provides extensive support for UML, the industry standard for analysis and design of software systems and applications. You may use UML to perform high-level analysis with Use Cases, model of the dynamics of the system with UML Activity, Sequence, Collaboration, and State diagrams, and analyze and design the static structure of the system with UML Class, Component, and Deployment diagrams. System Architect supports code implementation and redesign through automatic generation and reversal of several languages, including Java, Visual Basic, and C++. System Architect also provides unmatched capability to extend its UML support through stereotypes, tagged values, and custom profiles.