| Feature | Function | Benefit |
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| Runs inside the IDE | Runs inside leading IDEs e.g. IBM WSAD, Microsoft VS .NET | Practitioner benefit: No need to switch between tools for design/development
Project manager benefit: More productive team
Business benefit: Improved learning curve and productivity |
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| In-shell integration of Rational Purify Plus | PurifyPlus for Windows is inside XDE Developer Plus | Practitioner benefit: Benefit from cutting edge performance and runtime analysis tool without leaving the IDE
Project manager benefit: Prevents memory corruption errors and memory leaks, pinpoints performance bottlenecks, and reveals untested and dead code
Business benefit: Better software products |
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| Visual Trace | Run application and automatically capture a visual record of its behavior in the form of a UML diagram | Practitioner benefit: Understand application. Capture and document software behavior. Visually identify error-prone code.
Project manager benefit: Better overall software. Faster ramp up for team
Business benefit: Better software products |
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| Visual custom patterns/code templates | Visually implement reusable design patterns and custom code templates | Practitioner benefit: Better reuse of design and code
Project manager benefit: Organized reuse in the team and leveraging of advanced skills on team
Business benefit: Higher productivity, better sharing /dissemination/use of knowledge within team |
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| Multi-model support | Define multiple models that ca n be used together | Practitioner benefit: Faster loading, better structured project
Project manager benefit: Flexible project and team structuring
Business benefit: Flexible ownership and management of products |
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| Controllable model-code synchronization | Switch between manual and auto synchronization modes | Practitioner benefit: Ability to try out what-if scenarios easily
Project manager benefit: More productive team
Business benefit: Higher productivity |
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| Tight integration with key tools | Seamless integration with key lifecycle tools | Practitioner benefit: Simpler work environment
Project manager benefit: Easier to manage requirements, documentation etc
Business benefit: Better software overall, higher productivity, better work environment |
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| Free-form modeling | Use informal and formal diagrams for communication | Practitioner benefit: Communicate intent, ideas and design
Project manager benefit: Better communication with non technical parties
Business benefit: Better software |
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| UML modeling | Extensive support for UML | Practitioner benefit: Single language and tool across the project
Project manager benefit: Single language and tool across the project
Business benefit: Increased quality and reduced misunderstandings |
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| UML database diagrams | Create UML database diagrams | Practitioner benefit: Database analysts can model static entity relationships as well as database dynamics
Project manager benefit: Better communication within the team
Business benefit: Increased quality and reduced misunderstandings |
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| Extensibility Interface | Access to models and commands via scripting | Practitioner benefit: Automation of tedious tasks
Project manager benefit: More productive teams
Business benefit: Higher productivity and automation |
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| Multi-language support | Multiple languages available e.g. Java, C++, VB, Ada, CORBA, etc. | Practitioner benefit: Ability to use a single tool for complex projects
Project manager benefit: Reuse skills on multiple aspects of project
Business benefit: Modeling skills transferable across organization |
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| Application to data model synchronization | Tansformation between application model and data model | Practitioner benefit: The mapping between the application model and the database model is automatically maintained
Project manager benefit: Application model and database model stay in synch
Business benefit: Better alignment of applications and data |
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| Physical architecture modeling | Create component and deployment diagrams for database implementations | Practitioner benefit: Allows data modelers to visually view the implementation of structures in tablespaces and databases
Project manager benefit: Better implementation planning
Business benefit: Simple problem analysis and understanding of security issues |
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| Logical and Physical data modeling | Logical data requirements modeling, physical database design modeling | Practitioner benefit: Visual modeling and analysis of logical data requirements and database design
Project manager benefit: Unify data architects with software architects
Business benefit: Fewer unique tools required |
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