Industry standards-compliance and support

MagicDraw supports the UML 2 metamodel, the latest XMI standard for data storage and the most popular programming languages for implementation.

Unlike other UML modeling and architecture environments, MagicDraw makes it easy for you to deploy a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) environment that best suits the needs of your business. Our approach to standards and our Open API makes it easy for you to integrate with applications that work together, best supporting the needs of your business. We integrate with many leading products: IDEs, requirements, testing, estimation, MDD, database, and others.
 

Independence from specific development methodology

MagicDraw provides independence from any specific software development process, conforming nicely to your company process; allowing centralization of business and process modeling, requirements capture and design.

MagicDraw is not tied to any one phase of your project. Start MagicDraw from any point in your architecture and modeling process; it doesn't matter, for example, if your project is presently in a requirements or maintenance phase.
 

Usability, intuitiveness and quick start

MagicDraw provides intuitive controls within a very well designed GUI which allows users to model without having to spend time learning about the controls. Experience how quickly you get used to MagicDraw. With MagicDraw you will save time and improve productivity. Download the UML Quick reference guide.
 

Extensibility

With UML Profiles and custom diagrams you can extend standard UML 2 to fit your specific problem domain. With our Open API, you can extend functionality to include new design patterns, metrics, transformations and other plugins. With the customizable MagicDraw report generation engine, users can tailor documentation to fit their company's internal development process.
 

Collaboration and team development

Using MagicDraw's Teamwork Cloud, multiple developers can work simultaneously on the same model. This makes your team collaboration notably faster and provides simple configuration management, controlled access to your artifacts, remote access to your model and an optimal way to manage your model and avoid conflicts.
 

MagicDraw is central to MDD solutions

MagicDraw is by far the tool of choice in the world of Model Driven Architecture. Major MDD vendors select and recommend MagicDraw. MagicDraw integrates with IO Software ArcStyler, AndroMDA, openArchitectureWare, Codagen Architect, and others.