NIEM Designer

NIEM Designer is a hosted service that provides a set of tools that facilitate the creation and life-cycle management of NIEM IEPD’s. The entire set of capabilities includes:

  • Access to the community OpenCDX Registry
  • A logical modeling tool to create exchange artifacts
  • Automation to generate IEPDs for logical models
  • Mapping technology to test physical schemas by mapping sample data
  • Sample databases for creating sample instances

These capabilities are implemented in a virtual cloud-based environment managed by OpenCDX and Crossflo. The cloud host contains a set of software and data that the user operates by use a web browser, or remote tools, connected to the software in this virtual instance. The default configuration is:

  • CDX ExchangeBuilder
  • CDX Project Repository
  • MySQL with sample databases
  • OpenCDX TestConnect (providing access to CDX Mapper software)