Enterprise Architect 7.1 - build 834 now available
Sparx Systems' highly scalable, cost effective suite of rich modeling tools and technologies continue to deliver the kind of modeling depth and power you need. Specify, visualize, understand, build and manage today's complex business and software systems. Take advantage of Enterprise Architect's exceptional value and features and share your vision with the whole team. 
Included in this newsletter, you can find details of the latest changes and enhancements to Enterprise Architect, information about new partnerships, offerings from our partners and 3rd party product announcements. We hope you find it useful and informative. 
Some highlights from build 833 and 834 include:
New Business Modeling Toolbox 
Enterprise Architect's new Business Modeling Toolbox is a perfect complement to its already strong BPMN tool set and can be found under the “Extended” section of the Toolbox menu. 
RTF and HTML Reporting Enhancements 
The creation of advanced RTF and HTML reports has been made even easier with new filters, document scaling, Master Documents and more. 
XMI 2.1 and 1.1 Interoperability Updates 
Interoperability updates to XMI 2.1 and 1.1 enable even greater support for distributed development, moving model constructs between models and interchanging model information with other XMI supporting tools. 
Access 2007 Support 
Support for the storage of Enterprise Architect models in the latest version of Microsoft's Jet database. 
And Many More Tweaks and Improvements 
Including updates to code and database engineering, enhanced in-place editing, version control, security updates and more. 
Full Details Here: www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/history.html 
Download the Updates: www.sparxsystems.com/registered/reg_ea_down.html
Enterprise Architect 7.5 - Beta Release
The Beta release of Enterprise Architect 7.5 is coming soon! With an exciting range of new and enhanced modeling capabilities for the business user, systems engineer and advanced modeler alike, keep an eye out for the Beta announcement and access for our registered users early in Q1, 2009. 
Tips and Tricks
Tip 1: Need more room to document your elements? Try Linked Documents. 
In the Corporate edition of Enterprise Architect, you can link an RTF document to any UML element in the model. 

Select an Element
Right-click and Select “Create Linked Document” (Ctrl+Alt+D)
You now have a complete document to include rich-text, images, tables etc. 

Tip 2: The fast way to link and add an existing element to your diagram... 

Select an element on your diagram.
Drag the new link control (arrow at top right of selected element) to an empty space on the diagram.
As you select the element type you want to link to, hold Shift.
From the dialog, select your target element.
The element is now placed on the diagram at the selected position with the selected link type.