ARTiSAN welcomes standardization of SysML following its adoption by OMG

Cheltenham, UK – July 11th, 2006. ARTiSAN Software Tools, a global leader for UML 2.0 and SysML-based real-time systems and software modeling tools, has warmly welcomed the standardization of SysML following its adoption by The Object Management Group (OMG) on July 6th, 2006.

“ARTiSAN firmly believes that standards are fundamental to the sustainability and continuing evolution of the embedded systems design industry,” said Jeremy Goulding, President and CEO of ARTiSAN Software Tools. “We have been vigorous in propagating SysML as the standard for system engineers, so we are extremely enthusiastic about its adoption by the OMG. Having been extensively involved in the definition of the SysML architecture, we are ensuring that ARTiSAN Studio is fully compliant with the SysML standard and continues to provide leading-edge tool support for systems engineers wanting to use UML/SysML techniques for complex systems design. ARTiSAN Studio 6.1, which is about to start shipping, includes extensive support for SysML including requirements modeling.”

SysML is a general-purpose graphical modeling language for specifying, analyzing, designing, and verifying complex systems that may include hardware, software, information, personnel, procedures, and facilities.

The OMG and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) collaborated on the UML for Systems Engineering standardization process to extend UML to support the needs of the systems engineering community. The resulting SysML specification represents a subset of UML 2.0 with extensions needed to satisfy the requirements of systems engineers. The language provides graphical representations with a semantic foundation for modeling system requirements, behavior, and structure, and supports integration with a broad range of engineering analysis. In addition to leveraging the Model Driven Architecture and the Unified Modeling Language, the SysML standard uses the OMG’s XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) to exchange modeling data between tools, and is also intended to be compatible with the evolving ISO 10303-233 systems engineering data interchange standard.

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ARTiSAN Software Tools is the leading supplier of collaborative modeling tools for requirements analysis, specification, design and development of complex applications. The company provides standards-based, multi-user tool support from architectural frameworks through systems design to software implementation. ARTiSAN offers products, services and a process for systems and software modeling to accelerate the development of next-generation real-time systems while ensuring that they always meet requirements. ARTiSAN enables engineering teams to visualize, design and validate systems before building them, and simplifies implementation with code generation and software reuse. Winner of the 2005 SD Times 100 award in the Modeling category for bringing UML and SysML to real-time embedded systems, ARTiSAN offers the most advanced tools for complex applications development. Founded in March 1997, ARTiSAN is privately held with headquarters in Cheltenham, United Kingdom. The company has regional sales offices and distributors throughout the world. For more information, call +44 (0)1242 229300 internationally, or 1(888)511-7975 from the US; or visit www.artisansw.com.

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