Solutron ships Publisher/2000 to automate documentation or Oracle Designer/2000 users; from logical-level repository browsing to automated production of fully structured documents, Publisher/2000 extends the power of Designer/2000.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 1997--Solutron Inc. today announced the release of Publisher/2000(TM), a suite of dynamic publishing products designed to extend the power of the Oracle(R) Designer/2000(TM) software engineering toolset. Solutron, a co-sponsor of the Oracle Development Tool Users Group (ODTUG ODTUG Oracle Development Tools User Group ) Spring Conference 1997, will showcase Publisher/2000 at the international gathering of Oracle users in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , June 3-7. The Publisher/2000 family of products provides powerful dynamic publishing capabilities never before available to Designer/2000 users, ranging from logical level repository browsing to automated production of fully structured system specifications. "All my customers should be using Publisher/2000," said Jeff Jacobs, president of Jeffrey Jacobs & Associates, a Belmont, Calif.-based company that provides consulting and training services to Oracle Designer/2000 users, and president of the Oracle Development Tools Users Group. "Whether they are responsible for complex phase-end deliverables, or simply need to share project progress information with team members, Publisher/2000 has a powerful solution." Publisher/2000 supplements the standard reports available from Designer/2000 with the ability to automatically produce documentation that complies with a company's internal development methodology or a customer's mandated documentation standard. "Publisher/2000 directly addresses the documentation needs of the Designer/2000 customer base," said Ian Fisher
Solutron has worked closely with Oracle's U.K.-based Designer/2000 development organization to provide a publishing solution that complements the Oracle development toolset. Enabling Automatic Compliance to Documentation Standards Software engineering organizations adopt standards such as the U.S. Department of Defense Mil-Std 498, ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 12207, or Oracle CASE Development Method (CDM 1. CDM - Content Data Model 2. CDM - Code Division Multiplexing ) in order to improve quality and maintain a framework for effective project monitoring and control. These organizations produce project document deliverables that meet specific requirements for content and layout at each project milestone. The primary impediment A disability or obstruction that prevents an individual from entering into a contract. Infancy, for example, is an impediment in making certain contracts. Impediments to marriage include such factors as consanguinity between the parties or an earlier marriage that is still valid. to corporations wishing to adopt a standard project methodology is the effort associated with changing the behavior of software engineers and the additional cost of producing standards-compliant documentation. "Our goal is to make standards compliance a natural by-product by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. by-product Noun 1. of the software engineering process. Every project manager knows that the project team really should to be producing documentation. Too often, however, analysis and design documentation just doesn't get done," said Richard Linsdall, Chief Technology Officer for Solutron. "The Publisher/2000 family of products are designed to shield users from the complexity of a CASE tool's underlying repository, enabling automatic compliance to a documentation standard." For CASE tool users who adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. a documentation standard, the alternative to using Publisher/2000 is the "brute force (programming) brute force - A primitive programming style in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly " approach. Users often cut and paste To move an object from one location to another. When the operation is complete, there is nothing left in the original location. It may refer to relocating files from one folder to another or to relocating selected text or images from one document to another. standard CASE tool reports to create standard documentation. This laborious la·bo·ri·ous adj. 1. Marked by or requiring long, hard work: spent many laborious hours on the project. 2. Hard-working; industrious. process must be repeated each time a change is made. Publisher/2000 Technology Publisher/2000 is based on a powerful rules engine that "understands" the structure of the Designer/2000 repository. When a user needs to generate a Publisher/2000 document, a corresponding ruleset is executed. Rulesets can specify conditional queries and actions, allowing the data encountered in Designer/2000 to drive the document structuring process. Users do not have to be concerned with the structure of the Designer/2000 repository or the nature of the Publisher/2000 ruleset. When it is time to create a document, the user chooses the desired document type from a selector (programming) selector - 1. In Smalltalk or Objective C, the syntax of a message which selects a particular method in the target object. 2. An operation that returns the state of an object but does not alter that state. list, identifies the target Designer/2000 project and clicks OK. The rest is automatic. Pricing and Availability The Publisher/2000 family of products will be available on June 3, 1997. List price for the suite of products is as follows: -0- Publisher/2000 $4,995 Author/2000 $6,995 Ad Hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. Publisher $699 -0- The Publisher/2000 suite can be purchased directly from Solutron. For contact information, see the Solutron home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.solutron.com or send email to contact@solutron.com . Or call the corporate offices at 415/327-4615. SOLUTRON INC. Solutron Inc., based in Palo Alto, is a leading provider of dynamic publishing solutions for complex software engineering environments. Founded in 1985, the company's products are based on powerful rules technology that enables repeatable, reusable, and automatic documentation generation. The company's other products include Webmandu(TM), a development environment for implementing one-to-one Intranet publishing applications, and XL/Doc(TM), an automatic publisher for Intersolv(R) Excelerator(TM), a software development environment. For more information on Solutron, please contact the corporate offices at 415/327-4615. Solutron may also be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.solutron.com . -0- Note to Editors: Publisher/2000, Author/2000 and Ad Hoc Publisher are trademarks of Solutron Inc. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Solutron Inc., Palo Alto Marie McGarry, 415/327-4615 mmcgarry@solutron.com |
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