Enterprise Architect is a powerful environment for software analysis and design using the UML language. It supports the programmer at almost every stage of software development - from design, documentation to implementation. The tool is used in the work of programmers (as well as their entire groups), who are engaged in the development of complex and extensive software.

It facilitates the creation of various types of diagrams, presenting many aspects of the designed software, generating documentation and code skeleton based on diagrams modeled in UML. Enterprise Architect combines a set of useful tools that allow programmers to work as a team, report, support frameworks, repositories, as well as database modeling, etc. The Enterprise Architect is a powerful toolbox of tools that allows developers to work as a team, report, operate frameworks, repositories, and model databases, etc.

Supported modelling standards include UML 2.4, BPMN 2.0, SysML 1.2 and BPEL 2.0. The environment also enables the creation of extensive thought maps. Enterprise Architect offers functions for managing requirements (extremely important in the initial phases of project work), generator of documentation in RTF, PDF and HTML formats, transformation of selected models, etc.

The Enterprise Architect offers a wide range of functions to manage requirements (extremely important in the initial phases of project work), generator of documentation in RTF, PDF and HTML formats, transformation of selected models, etc. Additionally, the functionality can be extended by the programmer via UML profiles, editable templates, as well as scripts, allowing for example, automation of specific operations. Enterprise Architect can also generate source code in ActionScript, C, C#, C++, Delphi, Java, PHP, Python, Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET, while ensuring that the code is synchronized with the model and vice versa.

The software can be used in reverse engineering, i.e. generating models based on the source code.