Some primitive types available for management and/or review are: Activities, Capabilities, Comm Path Elements, Data Exchanges, Data Standards, Effects, Events, Information Exchanges, Locations (System Nodes), Performers (Operational Nodes), Service Areas, Services, System Functions, Systems, Technical Standards.

The DesignBank Primitive Manager application allows those with permission to:

• Add new primitives.
• Update existing primitives.
• Retire, activate, or delete primitives.
• Approve, edit, or reject primitives proposed via users of the DesignBank Builder application.
• View and export lists of primitives.
• Manage source publications.
• Manage reference models.
• Manage global assemblies.

DesignBank Primitive Manager serves as the foundation for all enterprise architecture work, and is tightly integrated with its sister applications, DesignBank Builder and DesignBank Viewer. Active primitives from the Primitive Manager repository become the scoping lists for architecture stewards to use when building DoDAF models in the Builder application. Architecture work done in the Builder application (once certified) flows out to DesignBank Viewer, enabling immediate visibility into a primitive's usage and its relationships with other primitives, across the entire enterprise, and/or within a specific architecture.

Managing enterprise data in one repository, DesignBank Primitive Manager, facilitates standardized architecture development and ensures consistency and integrity across architectures and the Enterprise.

The DesignBank Builder application allows those with permission to:

• Register architectures, models, and artifacts.
• Scope enterprise primitives to architectures.
• Assemble primitive pairings.
• Propose new primitives.
• View and export lists of primitives.
• Build models using DoDAF rules.
• Build model narratives using pre-filled template forms.
• Visualize representations of models and narratives using MS Office products.
• Manage architecture progress.
• Clone architectures.

DesignBank Builder is tightly integrated with its sister applications, DesignBank Primitive Manager and DesignBank Viewer. Active primitives from the Primitive Manager repository serve as the scoping lists for architecture stewards to use when building DoDAF models in the Builder application. Architecture work done in DesignBank Builder (once certified) flows out to DesignBank Viewer, enabling immediate visibility into a primitive's usage and its relationships with other primitives, across the entire enterprise, and/or within a specific architecture.

Using DesignBank Builder to build and manage enterprise architecture work enforces correct usage of DoDAF templates, facilitates standardized architecture development, supports cross product integration and ensures consistency and data integrity across all architectures.

The DesignBank Viewer application allows those with permission to:

• See a primitive's usage and its relationships with other primitives across the enterprise.
• View architecture summaries.
• View detailed information about models.
• View detailed information about primitives, including history and usage.
• Export primitives for re-use in other architectures.
• Download artifacts and information.
• Perform enterprise-wide analysis.
• View and export reports.

DesignBank Viewer is tightly integrated with its sister applications, DesignBank Builder and DesignBank Primitive Manager. Active primitives from the Primitive Manager repository serve as the scoping lists for architecture stewards to use when building DoDAF models in the Builder application. Architecture work done in DesignBank Builder (once certified) flows out to DesignBank Viewer, enabling immediate visibility into a primitive's usage and its relationships with other primitives, across the entire enterprise, and/or within a specific architecture.

DesignBank Viewer provides centralized visibility to all aspects of the enterprise, enables easy, quick operational analysis, allows for re-use and leveraging of past efforts, and supports decisions for future planning and fiscal forecasting.

DesignBank Services Registry allows those with permission to:

• Manage service definition frameworks.
• Extract the contents of WSDL and XML schemas for analysis.
• Review, analyze, update, upload, and download service information.
• Perform searches on services, operations, files, data elements, complex types and simple types.
• See usage of a data element, operation, file or service across the enterprise.
• Review and publish vocabularies and dictionaries.
• Drill into any service related item to learn more about it.

Using DesignBank Services Registry to manage services provides centralized visibility to enterprise services, enables easy, quick operational analysis, allows for re-use and leveraging of past efforts, supports decisions for future planning, and supports a unified enterprise.

The DesignBank Asset Manager application allows those with permission to:

• Capture and store design artifacts in one central, secure location.
• Perform key package life cycle events (check in, check out, quality review, archive, etc.)
• Version control packages and artifacts.
• Retrieve artifact and package information.
• Track changes to and activity against design artifacts.
• Query, search and report on artifact information, activities, and metadata.
• Notify users automatically via E-mail about key package life cycle events.

DesignBank Asset Manager protects enterprise investment, provides an authoritative source of blueprints for information systems, enforces accountability, and provides an integrated environment for developers and decision makers.