Differences between EA Analyst Client and EA Developer Client
Enterprise Analyzer Analyst Client provides tools for building and maintaining enterprise class repositories, as well as tools for application and program level understanding, utilizing extensive metrics, reports, diagrammatic views and querying tools to support various business initiatives.
Enterprise Analyzer Developer Client provides developers or anyone wishing to consume application knowledge with a simple-to-use web interface that lets them search, query and extract information from a centrally-maintained enterprise repository.
The following table outlines the key differences between the two
Enterprise Analyzer clients.
Note: This does not reference any tools required to build and maintain a repository as these are provided with both client tools.
| Capability | Analyst Client | Developer Client |
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| Intended target audience for each client type | Business Analyst | Developer |
| Client interface | Windows-based GUI | Web Interface |
| System Level Objects and Metrics | ||
| Search Assistant | 
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| Reference reports |
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| Diagrammer (project) |
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| Diagrammer (object) |
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| CRUD Report (project) |
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| CRUD Report (object based) |
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| Complexity metrics |
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| Syntactical Analysis | ||
| Code Search |
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| Source pane with navigation |
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| Program Control Flow |
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| Portability Assessment reports |
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| Quality Assessment reports |
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| Advanced Analysis Options | ||
| Field level data dependencies |
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| Change Analyzer (full) |
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| Change Analyzer (single data item) |
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| Impact pane |
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| Execution Path Analysis |
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