PLATINUM technology Supports Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 for Enterprise Application Development.OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 2, 1998--PLATINUM technology, inc. (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 :PLAT) today announced that its application lifecycle and data management tools support the Microsoft(R) Visual Studio(TM) 6.0 development system for the creation and management of enterprise applications. Developers using Visual Studio can employ PLATINUM's tools to perform enterprise modeling, database code development, business rules development, change and configuration management, and development and display of interactive 3D graphics embedded within applications. The combination of Microsoft and PLATINUM products creates a powerful, end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for rapidly developing and managing applications using the Microsoft Visual Basic(R), Visual J++(TM), and Visual C++(R) development systems. "We are working together with Microsoft to address the needs of millions of developers building applications with Visual Studio construction tools," said Rick Pleczko, vice president of marketing for application lifecycle solutions at PLATINUM. "By facilitating and automating virtually every phase of application development, deployment, and management, we are helping developers achieve dramatic increases in productivity and efficiency." "Businesses today rely on enterprise applications to run many of their core functions, and IT staff are constantly striving to keep pace with the demands of business," said Paul Gross For the biologist and author, see Paul R. Gross. For the Academy of Information Technology and Engineering principal, see Paul L. Gross. Paul Michael Gross (born April 30, 1959), is a Canadian actor, producer, director, singer and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. , vice president of development tools at Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . "Developers can use Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms 6.0, together with PLATINUM technology's products, to dramatically speed the development and improve the management of enterprise-wide, data-enabled applications." PLATINUM's tools help developers design databases, components, and objects for applications; seamlessly access data stored in relational databases; add "intelligence" to applications; manage changes made to applications; and integrate interactive 3D graphics. PLATINUM's support for Visual Studio 6.0 includes: -- Enterprise Modeling: PLATINUM's enterprise modeling solutions provide unparalleled enterprise design support for Visual Studio. The PLATINUM enterprise modeling product line includes: ERwin, the industry's best-selling data modeling solution; Paradigm Plus, a leading component modeling solution; and BPwin, a business process modeling solution. PLATINUM ERwin offers database design and implementation for all leading relational databases and is the first to demonstrate support for 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. (TM) 7.0. Developers can use ERwin's unique Complete-Compare technology to keep data models synchronized with databases throughout the application development lifecycle. ERwin's new integration with Paradigm Plus PARADIGM PLUS - A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft. coordinates database modeling with component-based application development, providing a complete design environment for Visual Studio. PLATINUM Paradigm Plus supports round-trip engineering Round-trip engineering is a functionality of software development tools that provides generation of models from source code and generation of source code from models; this way, existing source code can be converted into a model, be subjected to software engineering methods and then for all development languages in Visual Studio 6.0, including Visual Basic and Visual J++. (Support for Visual C++ version 6.0 will be available in fourth quarter, 1998.) Paradigm Plus supports 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. ), delivers ActiveX(R)-based and COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. forward and reverse engineering, and will also integrate through the Microsoft Source Code API to the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe(TM) version control system as well as PLATINUM's CCC/Harvest product for change and configuration management (see below). Both ERwin and Paradigm Plus offer import/export capabilities with Microsoft Repository version 2.0, co-developed by PLATINUM, which will ship with Visual Studio 6.0 and can provide a central data store for all applications. -- Enterprise Database Code Development and Management: Visual Studio developers can use PLATINUM's SQL-Station to deploy andebug, tune, and manage database server-side code. -- Enterprise Business Rules Development: Developers can use PLATINUM Aion to add "intelligence" to applications built with Visual Basic, Visual J++ and Visual C++, ane and configuration management solution thtive 3D Content Development: WorldView world·view n. In both senses also called Weltanschauung. 1. The overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world. 2. A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group. for DevelView for Developers, application developers can quickly and easily integrate industry-standard, network-ready, interactive 3D content into applications written in Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Java. Rather than building a graphics system from low-level libraries e 3D. WorldView for Developers is being us system Professional Edition is a comprehensive suite of industry-leading development tools for building bustions. Visual Studio 6.0 Professional Edition features the Visual Basic 6.0 development system, the Visual C+ solutions. The Enterprise Edition comes with all the components of the Professional Edition and also includecan be easily integrated with existing enterpriment tools. Working together with Microsoft, the Enterprise Partners deliver premier tools to corporate devetion about the program, visit the http://www.mides software and services that help IT organizaFor information visit http://www.platinum.com. o, Visual InterDev A Windows-based development system from Microsoft for building dynamic Web applications using Microsoft standards. It is used to write Active Server Pages that can interact with databases and ActiveX-based components in the server. , Visual J++, Visual SourceSct names referenced herein may be trademarks or Keith Reehl, 630/620-5000, cipr.com or Y KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com |
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