Modeling tools used for systems (SysML), functions (IDEF0), processes (IDEF3, BPMN), and Enterprise Architectures (UAF, Archimate) could be used as a framework for a company’s knowledge base/Semantic Wikis. This approach offers a number of advantages to exploit and, similarly, drawbacks to mitigate.

Advantages

  • scalability due to
  • in-built Semantics
  • modularity - the same model may be used to produce numerous types of outputs (e.g. .docx, .html) based on numerous types of views of the same underlying model
  • special tool-specific features may be used
    • simulation
    • code generation

Disadvantages

  • modeling tools aren’t designed to be knowledge bases, you’re working against your tools
  • modeling languages’ syntax aren’t user friendly
  • modeling tools are not good for presentation, and require either mass installation or the utilization of reporting

Mitigations

  • Reporting - essentially every modeling tool has reporting mechanisms. Good ones have good reporting mechanisms. These are, however, still less easy than simply

Source

  • self