Paired with the recent free online Model Thinking class, this could help introduce complexity concepts to beginners possibly ... $35 is nice for a semester license. I wonder if you could really expose a "swiss cheese" model of a problem situation? Anyway... complexity is of course complex, but not necessarily insurmountable or unknowable, so it is really wonderful that we're ever pushing the bar higher to educate about normal accidents and such (this has been the bane of my existence in stupid enterprise software sometimes :P)
Yes, in fact an up and coming discipline for this is called model based systems engineering - data driven, model based development of systems (including software systems). The main tool in this area is UML/SysML, but it looks like there is a Modelica-SysML transformation out there.
I would have liked to have seen an IT/network/software example on the SystemModeller examples page as this could be an interesting tool in that area.
Edit: just to point out, UML has been around for a while for this purpose, and SysML is an extension for development of systems in general not just software.
http://pathwaysystems.com Blueprints product (disclosure: I work there) is an Enterprise IT modeling system often used to model legacy systems or custom developed solutions. Wolfram's product looks to be designed for a much more technical audience than the typical sysadmin, network admin or developer. We have a simulation component in our product, but it's mainly the document/query/analyze/share/discuss/report use cases that deliver most of the value in the Enterprise IT setting.
