ARTiSAN Software Tools & The Object Factory Collaborate To Ensure Real-time Developers Deliver Projects On Time, Within Budget.Business/High Tech Editors PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2001 Combined Software Tools Automatically Create Real-time Model Estimates ARTiSAN Software Tools and The Object Factory today announced a partnership combining ARTiSAN Real-time Studio (RtS) 4.0 and Optimize 4.0 to provide real-time developers the capability to deliver UML-compliant software modeling projects on schedule and within budget. Real-time Studio (RtS) 4.0 coordinates team efforts to quickly define, design, and document efficient real-time systems Real-time systems Computer systems in which the computer is required to perform its tasks within the time restraints of some process or simultaneously with the system it is assisting. that meet requirements that can be easily maintained. Consisting of UML-based modeling with numerous real-time extensions, RtS Professional enables design teams to quickly agree on system functional requirements See information requirements and functional specification. (specification) functional requirements - What a system should be able to do, the functions it should perform. and system and software architectures, before implementation. The beneficial results are less re-work and debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. , improved schedule predictability, and reusable software components for future projects. Optimize is the first software tool to enable software professionals to quickly and accurately estimate the cost and duration of software projects specified in the Unified Modeling Language See UML. (language) Unified Modeling Language - (UML) A non-proprietary, third generation modelling language. The Unified Modeling Language is an open method used to specify, visualise, construct and document the artifacts of an object-oriented software-intensive system (UML (Unified Modeling Language) An object-oriented analysis and design language from the Object Management Group (OMG). Many design methodologies for describing object-oriented systems were developed in the late 1980s. ). "The benefits to our customers is manifold manifold In mathematics, a topological space (see topology) with a family of local coordinate systems related to each other by certain classes of coordinate transformations. Manifolds occur in algebraic geometry, differential equations, and classical dynamics. ," said S. Caine O'Brien, ARTiSAN Software Tools president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Keeping large team development projects on schedule and within budget makes the difference between a success or failure of product development. Integration of Real-time Studio and Optimize ensures developers can easily determine the project's cost and time-to-market." Gillian Adens, joint managing director at The Object Factory, and co-founder, explains the decision to link Optimize with RtS as "an acknowledgement of the importance of the real time development marketplace to the continued success of Optimize. The telecoms and aerospace industries particularly need to establish a sound process for the development of rigorous and dependable systems and already form a core customer base for Optimize. Their adoption of RtS made the decision to partner even easier for us." Optimize will allow developers using RtS to automatically create estimates of project costs and duration based on RtS models. Models are imported directly from RtS using the standard UML vocabulary and automatically are assigned a set of productivity and technology metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. . These, combined with other qualifiers, include scope size, complexity and reuse ability resulting in an accurate project estimate instantaneously. ARTiSAN and The Object Factory were each founded on the principles that the successful application of object-oriented technologies See object technology. for systems development enables the best route to superior quality systems. Both organizations offer real-time project solutions from the requirements modeling stage through detailed analysis and design. The integration of RtS and Optimize produces measurable and repetitious rep·e·ti·tious adj. Filled with repetition, especially needless or tedious repetition. rep  e·ti estimation techniques for real-time embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. applications. About ARTiSAN Software Tools ARTiSAN Software Tools provides electronic product development teams with the "fastest path to the right product." The company offers products, services and a process for systems and software modeling to accelerate the development of next-generation real-time systems while ensuring that they meet requirements. ARTiSAN enables engineering teams to visualize, design and validate systems before building them, and simplifies implementation with code generation and software reuse The ability to use software routines over again in new applications. This is one of the benefits of object technology. See object-oriented programming. . ARTiSAN is a practical partner offering easy-to-adopt, down-to-earth solutions. ARTiSAN Software Tools, Inc., founded in March 1997, is privately held with headquarters in Portland, Oregon and Cheltenham, United Kingdom. The company has regional sales offices and distributors throughout the world. For more information, call 888/511-7975; or visit www.artisansw.com. About The Object Factory The Object Factory is committed to delivering practical solutions to the software development community through the application of its expertise in the management of hundreds of medium to large-scale software projects. Their extensive consulting experience and broad client base enables an understanding of the practicalities of successfully implementing leading-edge systems dependent on the OO/CBD/web-based technologies in which it specializes, alongside the integration of existing legacy environments. This expertise and knowledge comes to the fore in the Optimize software family, formal training, consultancy and project mentoring services which assist blue-chip organizations under pressure to deliver high quality software systems on time and within budget. The Object Factory has its headquarters in Livingston, United Kingdom with its US office based in Herndon, Virginia Herndon is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 21,655 at the 2000 census, which makes it the largest of three towns in the county.[1] History . Customers can contact either office for sales assistance, purchase directly via the web site or through one of its experienced distribution channels. Further information, technical papers and free product downloads can be found at www.theobjectfactory.com. |
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