Unisys South Africa and SELECT Software Tools, a leading vendor of component-based modeling and management tools, have announced that they are strengthening their existing partnership to allow SELECT to be a primary distribution channel for the Unisys Universal Repository (UREP).
The new agreement will add UREP to the SELECT Component Factory (SCF) product line, both as an independent repository and as the integration technology between all products. To accomplish this, UREP will become the underlying repository for the SCF product line. SCF comprises SELECT Component Manager, the SELECT Enterprise component modeling toolset, the SELECT SE data modeling toolset and SELECT's component wrapping tools.
"UREP plays a major role in our goal of becoming the premier supplier of NT solutions for distributed heterogeneous environments. We chose to partner with SELECT in taking UREP to market because of the strength of their complementary products, SELECT Component Manager and SELECT Enterprise, and the close alignment between SELECT and Unisys component development strategies," said Unisys South Africa marketing manager Mike Dooner.
"By including UREP in SCF, Unisys and SELECT provide a unique offering comprising integrated data, business process, component modeling, and management facilities integrated through UREP. All these elements are necessary in building enterprise-class applications from components."
"We believe the UREP repository is an extremely strong repository for enterprise-scale component-based development," said Stuart Frost, CEO and Chairman for SELECT. "Unisys focus on component-based development, based around their Enterprise Windows NT strategy, make them ideal partners for SELECT."
"Repositories are crucial for successfully developing and implementing component-based systems," said Michael Barnes, analyst at Hurwitz Group. "They not only provide a central location for storing and managing components, they also provide a mechanism for leveraging previous IT investments in software, processes, and staff."
"A usable, efficient, and scaleable CBD environment could not exist without the use of repositories," said Steve Garone, Analyst at IDC. "Their version control and transactional capabilities are needed to fully implement a component management solution.
As CBD is increasingly used to develop scaleable applications, repositories will be a more critical part of the development environment."The companies' earlier relationship allowed Unisys to distribute SELECT Component Manager with the UREP repository as part of its Enterprise NT offering.
The relationship was extended due to the strong synergy between the two companies' component-based strategies and the opportunity for both to fill out their product offerings.
Benefits of UREP with SCF:
- Comprehensive integration of all aspects of SCF
- Integrate tools through the software development lifecycle
- Promote sharing and understanding of corporate information assets
- Reduce development costs through re-use of software elements
- Deliver projects more quickly
- Respond rapidly to competitive pressures
- Minimise redundant information and associated costs
- Enforce business rules and data definitions
SELECT will begin to sell UREP as part of its SCF product line immediately. SELECT Enterprise will be available on UREP in the second half of this year. Future product integration with other SCF products will be announced through the second half of 1998.
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