Cadre to strengthen OO leadership with solutions from Westmount; Westmount tools & technologies to accelerate IS market penetration.PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 1995--Cadre Technologies Inc. today announces it has agreed to merge Westmount Technology BV of Delft, The Netherlands with Cadre. Westmount's tools, technologies, and assets will be incorporated with Cadre. This initiative will add a new and powerfully integrated CASE environment for RDBMS-based applications to Cadre's industry-leading array of software development solutions and services. Combining the technology from Westmount's product families with the comprehensive solutions and services from Cadre will strengthen Cadre's leadership in the object-oriented marketplace as well as accelerate its penetration in the IS market. "We feel that we are making an aggressive move towards market domination with this strategic decision," said Cadre's 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. , David Dayton. "Westmount's robust tools and technology will add to our already extensive solutions for IS developers. Not only will we strengthen our position in the United States marketplace, but we'll reinforce our European presence as well." Westmount, founded in 1986, is one of Europe's leading providers of enterprise development tools for the client/server market. Its solutions are successfully being used in European IS markets in organizations such as the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (Netherlands), Norwegian Police, University of Stockholm, Royal Navy (UK), Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Mercedes-Benz Lease Finanz (Germany), Trustees Savings Bank (UK), France Telecom, News International, KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) Royal Dutch Airlines (Netherlands), Caisse d'Epargne (France), Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (Germany), Ministry Administracion Publico (Spain), and Electronic Data Systems (Germany). In the United States and the western hemisphere, Westmount tools are being used in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is the court of last resort for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It meets in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. History , Department of the Interior, Federal Depository Insurance Corporation (FDIC FDIC See: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC See Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). ), Informix MIS, Northern Telecom (Canada), and Queensland Police (Australia). The company and its tools were acknowledged by the X/!Open Association with the "1994 Open Software Supplier of the Year Award" in the Application Tools Development category. "We are excited about joining forces with such an industry leader," said Wiel van de Berg, Westmount president and CEO. "Together, Cadre's reputation, market presence, and worldwide sales channels and Westmount's products and technology represent a powerful combination that offers significant benefits to our combined customers, employees, and shareholders." Westmount products represent one of the richest application generation environments available in the market today. There is full support for leading RDBMSs and 4GLs including Oracle Forms, Sybase, Informix 4GL & New Era, CA-Ingres Open Road 4GL, and Uniface An application development system for e-commerce and client/server environments from Compuware. It is a repository-driven system that integrates with a variety of CASE tools, report writers and version control systems. . The tools also support leading languages such C, C++ and Cobol; leading methods including Yourdon, SSADM (Structured Systems Analysis and Design Methodology) A technology widely used for the analysis and design of IT systems. SSADM does not cover strategic information planning (SITP) issues or the construction, testing and implementation of software. , and OMT (Object Modeling Technique) An object-oriented analysis and design method developed by James Rumbaugh. See Rational Rose. OMT - Object Modelling Technique ; transaction managers, and target generation for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Windows, and VMS (1) (Virtual Memory System) A multiuser, multitasking, virtual memory operating system for the VAX series from Digital. VMS applications run on any VAX from the MicroVAX to the largest unit. See OpenVMS. platforms. The tools' application generation capabilities are completely customizable, making it possible to easily support additional languages and databases. Westmount's I-CASE (Integrated-CASE) CASE systems that generate applications code directly from design specifications. Features include support for rapid prototyping, modeling the data and processing and drawing logic diagrams. I-CASE - Integrated CASE. Another term for an IPSE. Yourdon and I-CASE SSADM are a set of enterprise development tools that provide full life-cycle support for client/server application development. It supports both workgroup and large-project teams, providing comprehensive upper and lower CASE functionality such as 3GL and 4GL code generation, and support in areas such as project and process management, documentation and quality management. It is based on an enterprise-strength repository, open for integration of third-party tools and facilitating the client/server "enablement" of legacy systems. The company's I-CASE OMT is a set of fully functional object-oriented tools that combine object-oriented analysis and design Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) is a software engineering approach that models a system as a group of interacting objects. Each object represents some entity of interest in the system being modeled, and is characterised by its class, its state (data elements), and its , full object-oriented code generation, and support for all major relational databases for use within an object-oriented environment. It is a complete object-oriented development environment providing full language and database support. I-CASE products will become part of Cadre's product offerings and will be supported by the company's award-winning array of professional services. The products will be distributed by Cadre's direct sales force in the United States and Europe and by Cadre and Westmount distributors worldwide. "By joining forces with Westmount, we are solidifying our leadership in the object-oriented market and making a significant expansion of our offerings to the IS marketplace worldwide," said Mory Bahar, Cadre's vice president of marketing. "Westmount products and distribution channels are extremely complementary to our product families and worldwide distribution network." Cadre Technologies Inc. is the leading provider of software development solutions and services worldwide. The company's products and services help automate and manage the entire software development life cycle. Its comprehensive solutions support both object-oriented and structured method approaches to software development. The company is the market share leader in object-oriented analysis and design solutions. Its products are available for most workstations running SunOS, Solaris, Ultrix, AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. , VMS, Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems. Headquartered in Providence, R.I., with sales and support offices throughout the United States and Europe, and with distributor sales offices internationally, Cadre has more than 39,000 installations worldwide and a customer base that includes General Motors, Kodak, IBM, Motorola, NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on , AT&T, Deutsche Bundespost, and Electricite de France. -0- All company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Cadre Technologies Inc. Carolyn Beaudry, 401/351-5950 or Westmount Technology Carl Verhoest, 31 (0) 15 14 12 12 or Rourke & Co. Sally Winship, 617/267-0042 |
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