sani@wmt.UUCP (Sandor Nieuwenhuijs) (05/18/89)
------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE april 1989 Announcements made by Westmount Technology TSEE/Case: New line of CASE products for Technical system development NEW RELEASES: Release 1.1 of RTEE/Case Release 1.1 of ISEE/Case ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Delft, April 1989 - Westmount Technology, a company located in Delft, The Netherlands, with an office in Belgium, an- nounces a number of new products in the Computer Aided Software Engineering field (CASE). TSEE/CASE TSEE/CASE fill the gap between the specific real-time software development and the information systems development. For this reason it is possible to offer the right choice of CASE tool, which fulfills the needs of a project team. TSEE/CASE is meant for the market of developers of technical and scientific software tools, like CAD/CAM, operating system software, various tools, desk top pub- lishing, geophysical applications. It offers support for the techniques as defined by Yourdon/deMarco, Chen, Constantine and Jackson. RTEE/CASE Version 1.1 of RTEE/CASE is meant for developers of real-time embedded software systems, possibly using a real-time kernel. RTEE/CASE 1.1 fully supports all phases of the software lifecycle, like Analysis, Design and Implementation. In the Analysis and Design phase full support is offered for the Yourdon/DeMarco, Jack- son, Chen and Constantine structured methods, with all real-time extensions as specified by Ward and Mellor. The implementation phase offers a complete programming environment with a full version and configuration mechanism for a project team within a network. It also offers the possibility to add a (symbolic) debugger, system monitors and system builders for a specific real-time kernel, and to use and In Circuit Emulator for debugging and performance analysis. ISEE/CASE Version 1.1 of ISEE/CASE is meant for builders of information systems, based on a relational database model. ISEE/CASE is directed towards the big EDP- departments, bank-, insurance-, business- and insuran- ceworld, software houses and builders of hospital sys- tems. Special care has been taken to support the com- plete software lifecycle. In ISEE/CASE the method of Yourdon SA/SD with techniques by Yourdon, Chen, Jackson and Constantine is realised. Code generation is present for any SQL-based database or for Ingres/4GL. By using ISEE/CASE a considerable quality improvement of the information system will be reached, which will espe- cially be of importance during maintenance, because maintenance still takes about 60% of system development costs. All of Westmount's CASE products are composed in a modular way, meaning that the various parts (Analyst, Designer, Pro- grammer) can be bought seperately, although all information will be stored in one central database. To implement this an intelligent licensing mechanism is used which allows for the distribution of keys within a heterogeneous network. The new Westmount products offer extremely advanced possi- bilities for supporting medium to large project teams. It is possible to work with a large number of persons in a hetero- geneous network environment using workstations of different manufacturers to create one consistent product. This is sup- ported by: + workbreakdown in the analysis phase + global and local design objects + locking mechanisms + storage on corporate- and projectlevel + re-use of parts of the design Much attention has been paid to the use of industrial stan- dards, like + X-windows + TCP/IP + NFS + SQL + Unix or VMS Availability The Westmount CASE products are available now for SUN, Apollo and DEC/VAX possibly in combination with X- terminals. Prices Prices vary according to the configuration, but the average cost-per-seat is $7500. Contact Westmount Technology B.V. P.O. Box 5063 2600 GB Delft The Netherlands Telephone +31 - 15 61 08 15 Fax +31 - 15 56 57 01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Sandor Nieuwenhuijs | E-mail: sani@wmt.uucp Westmount Technology B.V. | Phone: +31 15 610815 Poortweg 8, 2612 PA Delft | Fax: +31 15 565701 The Netherlands |----------------------------