Cayenne Software has demonstrated a pre-release version of the integration of its ObjectTeam with Uniface Seven from Compuware. The integration effectively couples the Cayenne ObjectTeam analysis and design modeling repository with UNIFACE Seven`s repository for component development and deployment, covering the entire application lifecycle - from analysis to assembly to actuality. While Compuware, like many software providers in the industry today, enjoys multiple product partnerships in the object space, Cayenne`s widely installed ObjectTeam becomes one of the first modelling and design front-end solutions with a working, demonstrable and optimised linkage to Uniface Seven through the new UML Repository API. "When we partner with an organisation, it is because they are a company we respect with a product that has value and a customer base we see as serious and important," says Cayenne Software marketing VP Michael Jannery. "In our definition of strategic, best-in-class partnering, we develop and own the integration of the products. These are not mere `partnerships on paper` like so many which are announced in the industry weekly. With our approach, when or if an issue comes up, there is one vendor responsible for resolving it - no finger-pointing from both sides of the integration. Furthermore, we do the work ourselves - there will be no third-party developer to blame, as can be the case with other approaches to providing integrations." "Support for strong analysis, design and modelling is critical to successful component development, delivery and assembly," says Melinda-Carol Ballou, Senior Research Analyst at Meta Group. "Compuware`s push into the component assembly arena with Uniface Seven requires strong partnerships with players such as Cayenne and others in this arena." In this newest integration, ObjectTeam is used as a modelling and design front-end to Uniface`s 3D strategy of software development, deployment and delivery. Cayenne`s analysis and design capabilities fully complement the component construction and application assembly facilities in Uniface so developers can conduct analysis and design of the business requirements and overall system with ObjectTeam, and then pass that modelling information to Uniface, for component construction and assembly and delivery. Any changes to the component model made during development can also be reflected back to the analysis model. "The integration provides users the ability to synchronise development efforts for all phases of a project resulting in better support for the complete software life cycle from analysis and design to application construction and assembly," says Roy Franzen, GM of Compuware`s Uniface product line. "We are pleased with Cayenne`s rapid delivery of this solution. Time-to-market is as important for us as vendors as it is for our customers."
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