PLATINUM technology's Paradigm Plus now models both business and technology; the first object-oriented analysis and design tool to unify business, database, and object modeling; also supports Visual Basic and Delphi.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 1996--At Object World West today, PLATINUM technology Platinum Technology Inc. was founded by Andrew Filipowski in 1987 to market and support deployment of Database Management software products and the applications enabled by database management technology and render related services. , inc. introduced the next generation of its leading 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 (OOAD (Object-Oriented Analysis & Design) See object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design. ) tool. Paradigm Plus/Enterprise Edition v3.5 is the first OOAD tool to support fully integrated business process modeling, physical database modeling, and object modeling. Paradigm Plus now provides a solid bridge between business processes, applications, and database resources -- helping organizations develop new applications and deploy changes rapidly and with greater ease. "Paradigm Plus has helped me bridge the communications gap with end-users," said Fima Katz, chief architect of objects, Object Consulting. "I have finally found some common ground between my design efforts and the company's business process re-engineering See reengineering. (business) Business Process Re-engineering - (BPR) Any radical change in the way in which an organisation performs its business activities. BPR involves a fundamental re-think of the business processes followed by a redesign of business activities to efforts." Strengthening support for popular construction tools, this release also supports round-trip engineering for Visual Basic and generates class definitions for Borland's Delphi. Business Process Modeling Meeting the needs of business is critical to the success of any rapid application development project. Paradigm Plus v3.5 now supports Object-Oriented Change and Learning (OOCL OOCL Orient Overseas Container Line (container shipping company; Hong Kong) OOCL Object-Oriented Change and Learning method (Arthur D. Little Inc.) ), a powerful business process modeling methodology, to help end-users and developers gain an equal understanding of the business processes to be automated. OOCL incorporates the "best practices" of organizational learning -- as developed by Innovation Associates, an Arthur D. Little Arthur D. Little, Inc. is the world's first management consulting firm. Founded in 1886 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist who discovered acetate, and co-worker Roger Griffin, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Arthur D. Little pioneered the concept of contracted technology research. company co-founded by Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of a Learning Organization. Paradigm Plus also supports organizational change management and business process redesign. These OOCL business process models form a natural input to the development process, feeding directly into the use-case, object, and physical database models. Physical Database Modeling Access to relational database management systems See DBMS for a shorter list of “typical”, representative database management systems. Open-source software
RDBMS - relational database ), where strategic business data is stored, is critical for most applications. But manually mapping OOAD techniques to and from RDBMS tables can be error-prone and time consuming. Paradigm Plus v3.5 now automates this process, providing a range of options for mapping from an object to an entity-relationship-type physical database model. Paradigm Plus v3.5 fulfills a wide range of modeling needs, from developing a new n-tiered system from scratch using object technology, to maintaining an existing system that accesses legacy data. By accessing physical database models, Paradigm Plus v3.5 can generate or reverse engineer schema for many database environments including Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. , and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) DB2. The resulting physical database diagram describes relational concepts including segments, tables, columns, primary keys, non-key attributes, domains, validation rules, referential integrity constraints, custom triggers, and stored procedures. The reverse engineering component shares technology with PLATINUM's SQL-Coder product -- fulfilling PLATINUM's promise to re-use existing technology where appropriate. Object Modeling With Paradigm Plus' complete round-trip engineering capability for Visual Basic, developers can enjoy the benefits of rapid architected application development (RAAD RAAD Refugee Aid and Development RAAD Rapid Architected Application Development ) -- keeping models and source code synchronized while rapidly developing well-architected systems. This adds to the portfolio of leading construction tools that Paradigm Plus currently supports, including Visual C++, Smalltalk, Powerbuilder, PLATINUM ObjectPro, and Forte. Paradigm Plus v3.5 also now supports Microsoft Word for document generation, and ActiveX automation to make the Paradigm Plus v3.5 ObjectStore ODBMS-based repository open and accessible. About Paradigm Plus Paradigm Plus supports Enterprise Component Modeling (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ), a strategy for rapidly delivering multi-tiered enterprise applications using object technology and component-based development techniques. Using ECM, companies can identify business requirements, model, and build reusable application components, and manage information systems over the long term. PLATINUM Paradigm Plus automates all leading object-oriented methods including Unified v0.9, OMT (Object Modeling Technique) An object-oriented analysis and design method developed by James Rumbaugh. See Rational Rose. OMT - Object Modelling Technique , Fusion, Booch, Martin/Odell and others extended to support Jacobson's Use-Case modeling. Round-trip engineering for Visual Basic, C++, Smalltalk, Powerbuilder, and Forte enables parallel iterative development and synchronization of designs with implementations. A distributed object repository supports large teams of concurrent users, object-level locking, versioning, and access rights. Pricing & Availability Paradigm Plus/Enterprise Edition v3.5 is now available for beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the . General availability for Windows 95 and Windows NT is expected in October; other platforms will ship throughout the fourth quarter of 1996. The price for a fixed license on a PC platform is $4,000; a floating license on both 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). and PC platforms is $7,700. Competitive upgrades for users of Select/Enterprise and Rational Rose are available. Application Lifecycle Solutions PLATINUM's Application Lifecycle Solutions comprise the most comprehensive and flexible set of tools for enterprise software application development. Application Lifecycle products address every stage of an application's lifecycle -- from project and process management, through analysis and design, construction, testing, configuration and change management, and maintenance. Product and service offerings are designed to yield the maximum payoff on IT and software development. PLATINUM's Application Lifecycle Solutions are part of the company's POEMS architecture, along with business intelligence, database management, data warehousing, and systems management. EDITOR'S NOTE: Additional information about PLATINUM technology, inc. is available via the World Wide Web at http://www.platinum.com. PLATINUM technology, inc., delivers the payoff on information technology (IT) investments by providing tools that enable organizations to efficiently manage next-generation computing solutions while leveraging existing and legacy systems. The company provides application development, business intelligence, database administration, data warehousing, and systems management software solutions for the Open Enterprise Environment (OEE OEE Overall Equipment Effectiveness OEE Office of Energy Efficiency (Canada) OEE Overall Equipment Efficiency OEE Office de l'Efficacité Énergétique (Office of Energy Efficiency - Canada) ) -- the networked computing environment that incorporates mainframe, desktop, and open systems. Note to Editors: In the word "Forte" noted in this news release, there should be an accent symbol over the letter "e." The accent was omitted for transmission purposes only. Also, there is an "at" symbol before "platinum.com" and "cbpr.com" below. These symbols may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: PLATINUM technology, inc. Michael Greeley, 617/891-6500, ext. 7063 greeley@platinum.com or Kim Braxton, 630/620-5000, ext. 1967 braxton@platinum.com or Copithorne & Bellows Kathy Madison, 617/450-4300 kathy.madison@cbpr.com |
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