Configure the Solution
Several AI options run on Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. We help you select and implement the best technologies for your needs, configure them to your repository, get the data ready, and define the process and governance changes that support where you're going.
We assemble the solution and you own the result
A working solution takes the right approach, a connection into your environment and data that is ready for the work. We're technology-independent, so our job is the best fit for you.
Select the right technologies for your needs
We help you choose the combination that fits your architecture, your use cases, your policies and your people.
Configure them to your Sparx EA
We stand up the AI capabilities you chose and configure them to your repository, your metamodel and your standards, so the first outputs reflect how your practice works.
Get the data ready to work with
The AI works from the data underneath it, so we assess the data and fix gaps, inconsistencies, duplication and unstructured content, and we connect the enterprise sources your architects need.
AI within Sparx applications
Sparx applications connected to your AI tools
Which AI fits depends on the job
Your data, your policies and where your architects work all count. We select the combination with you and set it up in your environment.
AI Power Tools for Sparx EA is published by NovoCircle, which Sparx Services belongs to, and we compare it on the same terms as the others.
Compare the AI options for Sparx EAWhich route to Power BI and Microsoft 365 Copilot
We can help you get your EA data into Power BI. Which route fits depends on whether you license Kernaro AI Hub.
- Kernaro AI Hub
Our recommended route for Power BI and Microsoft 365 Copilot for any organization that can afford it. Power BI, through the Kernaro Connector for Power BI, and Copilot read your repository live through Hub's read-only GraphQL endpoint, with no intermediate database and no batch refresh. Kernaro AI Hub is a licensed Sparx Systems product.
- Free AI Power Tools
Three paths that need no license: live views inside the EA repository's SQL Server database, a separate SQL Server reporting database, or Parquet files. We build the Power BI model on whichever fits your database and who needs to read it.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
Read-only. It answers from a published Power BI semantic model, or, with Kernaro AI Hub, through Hub's read-only API via Copilot Studio or a Microsoft 365 connector.
We can also mirror the reporting database into Microsoft Fabric, or use it, or the Parquet files, as the feed to your data warehouse. That is a second step we set up with you, because the AI Power Tools do not upload to OneLake or Fabric yet. How we help with reporting and Power BI
Five steps, from approach to handover
Plan is the recommended starting point. Configure can proceed on its own if your readiness is already clear.
Confirm the approach
Start from the Plan findings: the AI option(s) selected, your Sparx EA version and repository type, your environment, and the constraints that shape the build.
Configure and integrate
Stand up the chosen AI capabilities and connect them to your live Sparx EA, configured to your environment, metamodel and standards.
Set the data foundation
Assess and remediate the data, structure what's unstructured, and connect the enterprise sources the work depends on so answers are grounded in real data.
Define the operating changes
Work with you to define the process, policy and governance changes that support the new way of working, the operating model behind Outcome-Driven Architecture.
Verify and hand over
End-to-end tests across your target use cases, plus documentation and a quick-start guide. Your team gets a working practice it can use immediately.