jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker) (11/16/88)
***************** COMMERCIAL PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT *************** --New Product Announcement-- Real Time CASE Toolset from Athena Systems Background Athena Systems of Sunnyvale California announced it's first pro- duct, Foresight, on October 31, 1988. Athena is a privately held two year old firm with venture capital backing from Hambrecht and Quist. Product Function Foresight is a requirements analysis tool specifically designed for real time systems. It falls under the class of tools now known as CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering). Foresight addresses the needs of system engineers in specifying system re- quirements for real-time systems. The product is extensively graphics based with a simple pop-up and pull-down user interface. Using Foresight the engineer quickly creates a model of the sys- tem as it is intended to operate using standard structured analysis modeling constructs from Ward/Mellor and Hatley. These include state transition diagrams, mini-specs (procedures), and data flow diagrams. Foresight's unique Executable System Protyp- ing (ESP) capability automatically creates an executable version of the model. With ESP the engineer can freely exercise the model to test different assumptions, examine normal and abnormal operating conditions, or evaluate hardware/software architectural tradeoffs. Evaluation Software Athena will make available evaluation software and documentation to customers for up to 45 days. In order to qualify customer engineer(s) must attend a one-on-one instruction and consulting session led by one of Athena's senior applications engineers. This ensures that the evaluation period is used productively. Training, Support, and Consulting Athena believes strongly in providing superior service for our customers. Athena is staffing aggressively in the training and support areas. Athena provides hotline support to all customers free for 90 days and for customers who purchase maintenance agreements thereafter. Athena provides introductory and advanced product training classes at our headquarters or at the customer site. Athena also offers consulting to customers on modeling techniques and simulation strategies in order to best make use of our products. For More Information Please telephone Pam Price, Product Marketing Manager, at 408- 730-2100. Mail: Athena Systems, Inc. 139 Kifer Court Sunnyvale, California 94086 Voice: 408-730-2100 Fax: 408-730-2358 Telex: 981449