Sparx Systems
{{Short description|Australian software company}}
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| logo =
| name = Sparx Systems
| type = Private
| foundation = 1996[http://www.sparxsystems.com/about.html About Sparx Systems] at sparxsystems.com. Retrieved Dec 7, 2012
| location = Creswick, Victoria, Australia.
| area_served = North America, South America, Europe, Japan, China, India, Southeast Asia, South Africa, Australia
| key_people = Geoffrey Sparks (founder)
| industry = Software modeling, Software development
| products = Enterprise Architect
TRAK MDG Technology
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| homepage = {{URL|http://www.sparxsystems.com}}
}}
Sparx Systems is an Australian software company founded by Geoffrey Sparks in 1996 in Creswick, Victoria in Australia, known for the development of the Unified Modeling Language tool Enterprise Architect.Gerard Blokdijk (2008) Enterprise Architecture 100 Success Secrets. p.142-144
Sparx Systems specializes in the development of visual tools for planning, design and development of software intensive systems.Boyce Raynard (2008) TOGAF 100 Success Secrets the Open Group Architecture Framework 100 Success Secrets. p.151 This company is known for the development of Enterprise Architect released in 2000, which is nowadays considered one of the more advanced tool sets for UML.Chris Dale, Tom Anderson (2012) Achieving Systems Safety: Proceedings of the Twentieth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 7-9th February 2012. p.228 In 2006 the company was among the first manufacturers to support the OMG Systems Modeling Language (SysML).Tim Weilkien (2008) Systems Engineering with SysML/UML: Modeling, Analysis, Design. p.17
Sparx Systems is a member of the Object Management Group (OMG).