Software Engineering for Win95/NT & Mac

WinA&D 1.0 and MacA&D 5.1 for Software Engineering

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, August 15, 1996 --- Excel Software is pleased to announce availability of new software engineering products for Windows 95/NT, Macintosh and UNIX/MAE computers. The company has begun shipments of the new WinA&D product line to provide unmatched ease-of-use, integration and comprehensive support for today's most popular software engineering methods. A new release of its Macintosh product line, MacA&D 5.1 uses a new shared document format for compatibility with WinA&D products.

WinA&D 1.0 provides system analysts and software designers with comprehensive software engineering methods including object-oriented analysis and design (OOA/OOD), structured analysis and design, real-time and multi-task design, data modeling, integrated code editing and browsing, requirements traceability and use cases, and multi-user team dictionary and team requirement documents. Code can be generated from design models for C, C++, Pascal, Delphi, Fortran, Basic or SQL. The OOA/OOD support includes the Booch, OMT, Shlaer/Mellor, Coad/Yourdon, Jacobson and Fusion methods. Users can pick and mix the best aspects of each method and do significant customization with hundreds of diagram style options, templates and a user definable symbol library.

With a decade of experience in delivering software engineering tools to thousands of current MacA&D customers in over twenty countries, Excel Software now addresses the needs of professional developers, consultants and educators using Windows computers. WinA&D products are 32 bit applications for Windows 95 and Windows NT computers that offer impressive speed, ease-of-use and support for new operating system features like long file names. Each product supports standard Windows features like the Multiple Document Interface, popup menus accessible with a right mouse button click and extensive online help. WinA&D is available in three product options, WinA&D Desktop, WinA&D Educational or WinA&D Developer and can be purchased by single user, 5 User Site or Unlimited User Site licenses.

WinA&D Desktop at $1295 supports popular software engineering methods used by system analysts and independent software developers. WinA&D Educational at $845 is functionally similar to WinA&D Desktop but size limited to small-medium projects and licensed for educational use only. WinA&D Developer at $1995 is the ideal tool for corporate team developers using software engineering methods. It adds task models, requirements traceability and use cases to the WinA&D Desktop capabilities, plus multi-user team documents for site license users.  

MacA&D 5.1 products for Macintosh computers now share the same document format as WinA&D 1.0 products. Other functional enhancements include movable modal dialogs throughout the product. MacA&D products also run on UNIX workstations using Apple's MAE (Macintosh Application Environment) software. The MacA&D suite of product options and pricing has been streamlined from earlier versions to consist of MacAnalyst at $995, MacDesigner at $995 and the combined MacA&D at $1995. Educational versions and site licenses are available for each product option.

Software developers can now edit design documents from different computers while retaining the unique capabilities of each operating system. For example, MacA&D supports publish and subscribe within all diagram editors.  This unique Macintosh technology can be used without affecting Windows users of those same documents. In addition to sharing documents between different platforms by diskette, these products fully support team editing on a mixed platform network. For example, documents edited from WinA&D will show up with standard Macintosh icons if they physically reside on a Macintosh file server. The tools can also transparently adjust for differences in fonts, sizes and text file formats between different machines and operating systems. Users have complete flexibility in partitioning their projects across shared drives in a heterogeneous, networked environment.

To assist software designers in exploring software engineering methods or evaluating these products, Excel Software is offering a MacA&D Demo & Manuals package and a WinA&D Demo & Manuals package at $75 each. Each package includes a set of diskettes with full product software and limited save capability. Software engineering documents for over a dozen sample projects are included using many popular methods. Each package has complete printed documentation consisting of a User's Guide, Introduction & Tutorials Guide and Document Sharing Guide.

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Email: casetools_at_aol.com Received on Tue Aug 27 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST