BigLever Software Announces Eclipse Integration for its Gears Software Product Line Development Tool.AUSTIN Austin. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,907), seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the Hormel meatpacking company, whose Spam Town museum , Texas -- BigLever Software[TM], the leading provider of software product line development tools and services, today announced the availability of an Eclipse plug-in An auxiliary program that works with a major software package to enhance its capability. For example, plug-ins are widely used in image editing programs such as Photoshop to add a filter for some special effect. for its Gears software product line development solution. The new Eclipse plug-in enables Gears users to seamlessly integrate software product line engineering capabilities into their existing toolset across the product development lifecycle. "For organizations taking advantage of the Eclipse platform, our new plug-in makes it easy to incorporate software product line capabilities into current development methods and processes," said Charles Charles, archduke of Austria Charles, 1771–1847, archduke of Austria; brother of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. Despite his epilepsy, he was the ablest Austrian commander in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars; however, he was handicapped by Krueger, chief executive officer of BigLever Software. "This ease-of-integration is synergistic synergistic /syn·er·gis·tic/ (sin?er-jis´tik) 1. acting together. 2. enhancing the effect of another force or agent. syn·er·gis·tic adj. 1. with our mission to enable companies to adopt leading-edge software product line approaches in a manner that is minimally invasive invasive /in·va·sive/ (-siv) 1. having the quality of invasiveness. 2. involving puncture of the skin or insertion of an instrument or foreign material into the body; said of diagnostic techniques. and non-disruptive to their existing development environment or product delivery schedules." By adding BigLever's Gears to the toolset in an Eclipse development environment, organizations focused on product development can create, maintain and evolve an entire software product line portfolio, across the full development lifecycle, as though it is a single product. The Eclipse integration for Gears is enabling BigLever customers to rapidly expand their product line portfolios with only fractional fractional size expressed as a relative part of a unit. fractional catabolic rate the percentage of an available pool of body component, e.g. protein, iron, which is replaced, transferred or lost per unit of time. increases in time, cost and effort over developing a single product. This innovative approach offers a strategic competitive advantage through order-of-magnitude improvements in engineering productivity, portfolio scalability, time-to-market for new products, and product quality. About BigLever Software and Gears BigLever Software's patent-pending software product line solution, Gears, addresses the unique challenges of engineering software for a portfolio of similar products. Gears shifts the development focus from a multitude of products to a single software production line capable of automatically producing all of the products in a portfolio. The solution can be used in any or all stages of the portfolio development lifecycle, for more effective requirements management The administration and control of the information needs of users. In order to achieve business objectives within an organization via information systems, user requirements must be defined in a consistent manner, prioritized and monitored. , change and configuration management, source code development, software builds, testing, and document development. BigLever is based in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.biglever.com. Copyright (c) 2006 BigLever Software, Inc. All rights reserved. BigLever Software, Gears, and their respective logos are trademarks of BigLever Software, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other jurisdictions. All other company or product names mentioned are used only for identification purposes and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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