Workspaces provide the flexibility to take projects down different routes from a common source while maintaining traceability.

Modeling is a creative, iterative process, where you need to capture a model at a moment in time, as a baseline. System Architect enables you to evolve the model in workspaces, which you can use to evolve scenarios or projects. You can create Team or Project work areas, based on a common Baseline. This makes it easy to view changes against a Baseline and to merge multiple Projects together to form a new Baseline. You can also model multiple scenarios (in a “to-be” state) from a common Baseline (in a “as-is” state). Workspaces provide the flexibility to take projects down different routes from a common source while maintaining traceability.

Workspaces extend the concept of working collaboratively in an encyclopedia. They offer detailed traceability, comparisons between an original and an evolved encyclopedia version, and workspace merging. Workspaces also reduce the need to work in separate encyclopedias, which reduces the need for administrators to create new encyclopedias, reduce the time to switch between versions, and reduces workplace complexity. Users can have multiple workspaces, evolve a workspace or multiple workspaces from a baseline, and can safely work on one workspace at a time.