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Combines Data, Process, and
Object Modeling in one easy-to-use tool so you save money on
tool purchases and reduce developer learning curve.
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Extensible Repository
so you can expand Visible Analyst to meet your requirements
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Reverse Engineers
Legacy Databases so you can quickly and accurately preserve
valuable legacy assets.
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Generates DDL Scripts
for Schemas, Tables, Views, RI Triggers, Stored Procedures,
Table Space so you save time and increase product quality by
automating common development tasks.
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Collaborative Team Development
Environment so critical design information can be shared across
teams, departments, or the enterprise.
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Ensures Model Consistency,
Integrity and Quality so you have accurate, consistent models
of enterprise information.
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Comprehensive Reporting
so you can effectively communicate analysis and design information.
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Multi-Level Design so
you can manage enterprise information from requirements through
implementation.
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Generates Business
Applications From Your Data Model - Automatically so you can
quickly transform your data models into business applications.
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Features for Power Users
so you can maximize developer performance within your tool budget.
Combines Data, Process,
and Object Modeling in one easy-to-use tool
Visible Analyst is the only integrated application
development tool that supports all of the most widely used analysis
and design techniques:
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UML: class, use case, sequence, collaboration,
and action diagrams
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Data Models: supports conceptual, logical and
physical database design; use any of the popular diagramming
notations
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Process Models: decomposition charts, structure
charts, and data flow diagrams
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Extensible Repository
A powerful and flexible repository is always included
with Visible Analyst - you do not need to purchase a separate repository
product. You can add new attributes, objects, and relationships
to the Visible Analyst repository. You can also extend the definition
of standard repository objects giving you the power to define your
own corporate meta data. For example, you can:
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Define new objects to capture business requirements
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Relate requirements to other repository objects
(tables, fields, process, etc.)
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Add attribute to identify owner
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Use Analyst's built-in matrix reporting tool
to track requirements against other object
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Reverse Engineer
Legacy Databases
Visible Analyst offers a complete, robust reverse-engineering
process from these sources:
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Directly from legacy database using native DBMS
or ODBC connection to legacy database. A wide variety of DBMS
products are supported (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Informix, Sybase,
etc.)
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SQL DDL script
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COBOL data division (when combined with Analyst's
COBOL reverse engineering utility)
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ERWin 3.2 and above file import/export
Tables, views, relationships, domains (user defined
types), stored procedures, constraints, triggers, and table space
information are extracted from the legacy database and imported.
Analyst will infer the foreign keys to find relationships not expressly
defined in the database. Analyst also infers subtype and supertype
relationships.
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Generate DDL Scripts
for Schemas, Tables, Views, RI Triggers, Stored Procedures, Table
Space
Visible Analyst generates scripts or DDL schemas
in many development environments, languages, and DBMS's. You can
save generated scripts as a file or execute immediately using database
connection. You can easily customize generation by modifying templates.
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SQL DDL (Oracle, SQL Server, DB/2, Informix,
Ingres, Sybase, and many others)
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AS/400 DDS
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Native Progress data descriptions
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Generate referential integrity to enforce the
data definition rules defined in the data model.
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XML
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Collaborative Team Development
Environment
Visible Analyst's repository provides team development
capabilities that file-based tools cannot offer. Authorized users
can access the repository at any time to manually add, modify, or
delete objects or review entries and relationships. The repository
supports concurrent user access, simultaneous update, and file/record
locking.
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Multi-level security structure: three levels
of security user account (3 types), project, object level
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Multiple developers can work on same element
of the design at the same time
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Elminates conflicts - only one user makes changes
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Enterprise copy - make a subset of your model
and distribute work across team
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Keep multiple versions of a model
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Synchronize changes among versions
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Projects linked in parent-child relationships
- segment work - distribute - then later consolidate
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Ensures Model Consistency,
Integrity and Quality
Visible Analyst offers advanced, value-added features
that makes it more than a diagramming tool. Customizable analysis
routines detect missing or conflicting information. A single, tightly
integrated repository stores model elements once and allows them
to be reused in multiple diagrams and projects. Consistency and
integrity is increased because a single change to a shared element
is immediately reflected everywhere is is used.
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Built-in consistency checks include: key analysis,
normalization analysis, and balancing checks between model types
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Enforces rules of modeling technique
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Automatically migrates foreign keys
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Share data elements between different models
- for example, data element used in a process model reused in
ERD and UML
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Comprehensive Reporting
Visible Analyst can publish web reports and model
diagrams for sharing across the internet with HTML and JPEG (Internet
browser native files). The report is user - customizable, and the
customized report may be saved for later reuse. You can make queries
and reports on projects combining the information in many different
ways.
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HTML Reports
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Presentation-Quality
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Standard reports: Matrix, business rules, detail
and summary of meta data definitions
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Save diagrams as JPEG, WMF, or clipboard files
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Multi-Level Design
Visible Analyst supports data modeling at three
levels: conceptual modeling, logical data modeling, and physical
database design.
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Automatic summarization of logical to conceptual
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Model denormalization to improve performance
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Create model subsets and merge all views into
one corporate model
Denormalization rules
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Domains, aliases, independent data elements
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Generate Business Applications
From Your Data Model - Automatically
Visible Analyst takes you further toward your end
goal - robust, well-documented, modular, 3-tier business applications.
Data models are transferred to Visible Developer where business
objects are designed from tables, fields, and relationships. Complete
the application design by defining properties, methods, rules, views,
look-up tables, and other design-time objects. Select a code pattern
to generate any of the following:
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3-tier Visual Basic business object
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Visual Basic forms user interface
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ASP web interface
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SQL Server or Oracle stored procedures
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C++/Java outline class definitions
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Features for Power
Users
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Exclusive IntelliViews? technology allows you
to develop database view specifications as you are data modeling,
tracking name changes to every location and formula in which
they are used, eliminating errors. View specifications are automatically
adjusted to the specific DBMS dialect, allowing one set of views
to be created and used without having to worry about specific
SQL syntax and restrictions.
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Visible Analyst can build different model subsets
and merge all views into one corporate model integrating the
sub-models to finalize your bottom-up design.
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Visible Analyst can separate the logical and
physical views of data models by creating denormalization rules
on relationships which are used to generate the SQL DDL schemas.
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Foreign keys can be related to any unique field
- not just the primary key
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Link external documents directly to meta-data
definitions using hyperlinks. Documents, spreadsheets, URLs,
and graphics can be used.
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Clusters can be used on data model models to
limit the amount of detail shown. Great for high-level presentations
where you want to focus on certain areas of a model.
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Multi-level data structures can be defined and
referenced throughout your models.
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Easy convert object models to data models. Allows
you to build your application in an OO architecture, but deploy
on a relational database.
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