Visible Systems Buys 3tSoftware, Giving Companies Automated End-to-End Application Development.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2000 Customers benefit by having an integrated product set for enterprise application analysis, design, modeling -- and now, coding -- for both Web and traditional applications Visible Systems Corporation acquired the products and staff of 3tSoftware, Inc., enabling the company to provide one of the most well-rounded application development solutions in today's market. The combined product lines will give software developers a seamless way to build applications -- from creating the blueprint blueprint, white-on-blue photographic print, commonly of a working drawing used during building or manufacturing. The plan is first drawn to scale on a special paper or tracing cloth through which light can penetrate. , or model, to generating production code. An integrated product line will help Visible compete more aggressively in the multi-billion dollar software application development tools market, which includes companies such as Rational and Embarcadero em·bar·ca·de·ro n. pl. embarcade·ros California A pier, wharf, or landing place, especially on a river or inland waterway. . George Cagliuso, founder and president of Visible commented: "For over 10 years, Visible has given database and application developers affordable, model-based tools for building sound software efficiently. The acquisition of 3tSoftware and its VBMentor product fulfills our vision of automating the end of the build process - the coding that takes so much manpower and time. Visible can now provide a very competitive 'soup to nuts' development capability that's model-based and, therefore, technology-independent." John Vosburgh, 3tSoftware founder and president, said: "3tSoftware's VBMentor product takes up where the Visible modeling tools leave off, generating business components from database schema The definition of a database. It defines the structure and content in each data element within the structure. Schemas are often designed with visual modeling tools that automatically create the SQL code necessary to define the table structures. See subschema and XML schema. and developer-added design information. Developers can take their design models and transform them into usable USable is a special idea contest to transfer US American ideas into practice in Germany. USable is initiated by the German Körber-Stiftung (foundation Körber). It is doted with 150,000 Euro and awarded every two years. code for one-, two-, and three-tier applications. Automatic, model-based code generation saves companies tremendous time and money in manpower and error-correction and lets them focus on business rather than technical issues." Visible is now selling the Visual Basic version of VBMentor, which has been available commercially for two years and is now being marketed under the name Visible Developer. VBMentor has proven its effectiveness in installations such as the University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. Medical Center, Order Processing Technologies, and Tecolote Research, Inc. Mr. Vosburgh added that the company plans a mid- mid- pref. Middle: midbrain. 2001 release of VBMentor versions that generate JAVA and C++ and provide additional support for Web and business-to-business applications. 3tSoftware 3tSoftware (http://www.3tsoft.com), based in Reston, VA, has been in the systems development business for seven years, specializing in the analysis, design, and development of enterprise-wide business applications. The company has developed techniques and tools for customers to build distributed business applications using Microsoft's ActiveX technology and Visual Basic. As a result, the company created VBMentor, a well-accepted Visual Basic add-in that generates code for complex, multi-tier applications See multitier application. . Visible Systems Corporation Visible (http://www.visible.com), headquartered in Waltham, MA, is a leader in application development tools, training, and consulting. Visible has over 100,000 users of its products worldwide. The company's products include Visible Analyst, a powerful software analysis and design tool that supports 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. , XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , round-trip, and structured software engineering in one integrated toolset; Visible Advantage, an architecture modeling and meta-data management Meta-data Management involves storing information about other information. With different types of media being used references to the location of the data can allow management of diverse repositories. URLs, images, video etc. tool for the planning and design of enterprise information portals See corporate portal. ; Visible Business Templates, which provides a fast-start approach to creating a quality data architecture for databases and data warehouses; and Razor, a full-featured configuration management system. The company also has an active consulting division that provides training and guidance on all aspects of implementing Enterprise Architectures and software projects. |
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