Better Software - June 2008 - (Page 45)

Product Announcements Software Partnership AUSTIN, TX—QuickArrow, Inc. and Pervasive Software announce their partnership. This partnership enables QuickArrow to deliver a universal data integration solution that is easy to configure, maintain, and support. QuickArrow is leveraging the power of Pervasive Data Integrator to deliver QuickConnectIT, an integration engine capable of integrating QuickArrow with any application. This allows QuickArrow and Pervasive to deliver integrations that are consistent with the speed and economics of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model on one code base. The partnership also enables QuickArrow to better focus on its core competency, Professional Services Automation. The partners have already implemented more than fifty bi-directional integrations between QuickArrow and other best-of-breed applications such as salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Peachtree, and QuickBooks. With QuickConnectIT and more than 150 standard Pervasive adapters in Pervasive Data Integrator v9, the partnership will enable QuickArrow to integrate with almost any other application using a configuration process versus a custom development exercise. QuickConnectIT leverages Pervasive Data Integrator and QuickArrow’s proven Web services API to support both on-premise and SaaS integrations and can also operate as an Integrationas-a-Service solution. Visit www.quickarrow.com for more information. Solutions, a company with extensive expertise in the HOOD methodology, to investigate ways in which its HOOD data could be migrated into Artisan Studio, which was already widely deployed within BAE Systems. The outcome of this engagement has resulted in Objektum Solutions’ developing the HOODbridge, a standalone utility to migrate HOOD design data into an Artisan Studio UML model without any loss of design data integrity. Using the Objektum Solutions’ HOODbridge with the BAE Systems’ Ada Profile and code generation templates, it has proven the ability to migrate HOOD designs into Artisan Studio along with the generation of source code consistent with BAE Systems’ original COTS HOOD tool. Visit www.artisansw.com for more information. HOOD-to-UML AMSTERDAM, HE NETHERLANDS— T Artisan Software Tools and Objektum Solutions are successfully working with BAE Systems to resolve the HOOD-toUML migration challenge for its Nimrod project legacy designs. Combining Objektum Solutions’ HOODbridge utility, the Artisan Studio UML/SysML tool suite, and the BAE Systems Ada Profile results in a solution that significantly reduces the time it takes to migrate legacy designs into Artisan Studio ready for use. BAE Systems reviewed its various migration options and engaged Objektum www.StickyMinds.com JUNE 2008 BETTER SOFTWARE 45 http://www.artisansw.com http://www.quickarrow.com http://www.aculis.com http://www.StickyMinds.com

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Better Software - June 2008 Contents Mark Your Calendar Contributors Technically Speaking eLightenment Code Craft Test Connection Management Chronicles Agile Model-Driven Development The Myth of Risk Management Stop the Insanity! Product Announcements 10 Things You Might Not Know About … The Last Word Ad Index

Better Software - June 2008

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