| info@excelsoftware.com 2006-06-05, 7:06 pm |
| Excel Software is now shipping MacA&D OSX 2.0, an engineering tool for
system analysis, requirements management, software models, code
generation, reengineering and customized project reports. The new
release adds system models, time simulation with dynamic charts and
graphs to its suite of software engineering capabilities. Other
enhancements include team dictionary and requirement documents for
concurrent team development, a project scrapbook, flow, store and
external entity detail dialogs for structured analysis & design and new
project reports.
MacA&D can model and simulate systems driven by cause and affect.
Those systems include financial, production, inventory, biological,
chemical, thermodynamic and workflow. Systems are modeled as Causal
Loop Diagrams with nodes representing system variables and connecting
lines representing causal effects. The changing value of each variable
causes other variables to change as described by equations.
Understanding how a system really works is the first step towards
using, improving, automating or explaining it to others.
MacA&D presents an easy, integrated solution to model dynamic systems,
parameterize the model with data and equations, run time simulations
and present the system behavior with live charts, graphs and tables.
Data files can provide input data to models or capture output results.
The integrated Data File editor makes it easy to edit data items or
import and export data to other applications as a comma or tab
delimited file.
The new Project Scrapbook window is a community resource that anyone on
the project can concurrently view or edit. It provides a convenient
placeholder for project artifacts created from any application.
Typical examples include marketing specifications, graphic
illustrations, project schedule, software models, tables, graphic
charts of simulation results or test plans. Scrapbook items can be
organized, copied, pasted, printed or double-clicked to view or edit
the original document in its native application.
The MacA&D Developer edition site license adds Team Dictionary and Team
Requirements. The Dictionary is a repository of project data. Project
requirements and use cases are stored in the Requirements document.
Team members can concurrently edit information stored in a shared team
document.
The tool includes new project reports and scripting language
enhancements. It adds tags for math functions, scrapbook items,
dynamic charts and reading or writing of data file variables.
Reengineering enhancements help to generate models from code by
clustering object classes on diagrams based on selected relationships.
MacA&D OSX 2.0 for Mac OS X computers has a Standard edition at $495
and Developer edition at $1995.
Excel Software
Ph: (505) 771-3719
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Web: http://www.excelsoftware.com
Email: info@excelsoftware.com
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