Assuring uniform application of IT-tools
The editing
of data by programs (IT-tools) within the development process of a product,
includes a wide range of processes,such as resource-, incident-, configuration-,
adjustment- and version-managing. The processes are often paper-based, and the
input of the data via several IT-tools often creates redundancies. The recovery of
information is inconvenient, due to the lack of standards for search- and
analysis-technologies. Searching for information does usually happen on
data-isles and is used only by single employees – collaborative and cross-tool
aspects are not considered.
Rules for
guideline-compliance implicitly apply to the employment of programs and the
data-input in databases. Legal provisions and internal guidelines regulate the
way of editing and data-structure. Enterprises have to fulfill certain
provisions of the check. In respect of
the complex matter of guideline-compliance – and the high expenses in the case
of non-compliance – enterprises are urgently demanding a system for the check
of their data and guideline-compliance.
Tool
Compliance requires the actual practice of the guidelines and their application
in the processes and artefacts. One technical problem is the fact that the
available programs are not able to assure consistency to the created artefacts,
documents and data, in a sufficient way. Contents of documents can be hardly
checked, if they can be checked at all. The following guideline illustrates the
problem: “The name-convention shall be adherent across tools.” Different
data-format, structure and IT-systems prevent a comprehensive safeguarding
(easy example: Balancing a glossary-chart in Excel with a Word-document).
Are
you using different tools or document-formats?
We offer
solutions for cross-platform data verification
- IBM Rational DOORS®
- IBM Rational Rhapsody®
- ORACLE® Databases
- Dassault Sysemes CATIA®
- Microsoft Office (Word®, Excel®, Visio®)
- Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect®
- The MathWorks MATLAB® Simulink® Stateflow®
- ETAS ASCET-MD®
- PLATO
SCIO®
- Berner & Mattner CTE/XL®
By the
option of the cross-tool check, data of different tools,such as documents, models
or test-specifications can be checked, compared and analysed automated, one at
a time or in reciprocal relation to each other, regarding conformity and
correctness. Automatically generated check-protocols allow employees to instantly trace error sources, and managers to verify their own
developing-process performance.