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Rapid Application Development
OmniBuilder provides a structured environment which supports
the entire development life cycle:
OmniBuilder supports industry standards methods and techniques to help
you capture and manage the business requirements; OmniBuilder offers the
most complete repository of the business requirements today supporting
both UML and Information Engineering
OmniBuilder captures
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Business Strategy
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Business Requirements
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Business Functions, Processes and activities
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Business Use Cases and scenarios
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Business Objects; including properties, relationships, events, methods
and rules
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Business rules
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Work flow and procedures
In addition OmniBuilder provides several tools to help Analysts:
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Import Business Templates
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Completeness Checks
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Web Business Model browser; allow enterprise access to the business model
and providing annotations capabilities
Reuse in the Analysis is achieved through:
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Business Template; to import an entire model or an area of specialization
into your model
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Object inheritance; to inherit all objects properties and behaviour
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Domain Reuse; to reuse common definition of common properties
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Use of Analysis Patterns to reuse previously defined complex business requirements
Design
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Pre-designed components shipped with the product
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Define design components (features)
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Separate design rules from business rules
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Capture design rules across projects for later re-use
Prototype
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Facilitate prototyping by providing full data access from the business
model
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Full prototyping of the application
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Publishes the analysis and design as web pages
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Allow annotation of the model to record feedback and decisions
Generate/Construction
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Generate application code
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Generate technical documentation
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Generate user documentation
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Generate install procedures
Testing
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Performs standards test of generated components
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Generate test scripts of SQL objects
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Generate data validation routines
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Generate test scripts for third party testing tools
Deploy
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Produce install procedures for first time install
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Produce upgrade procedures
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Produces porting logic and installation routine including alters to SQL
configurations
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Produces diagnostics to ensure proper installation
Enhance/Support
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Through workflow system; capture enhancement requests and support requests
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Manage Configuration
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Produce
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Tracks progress
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Provides On-line access to support and enhancements database to the user
community
Reverse Engineering
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Reverse engineer from SQL configurations
Work Management Workflow and Project Management
OmniBuilder supports Project Management by capturing scope of work
and tasks
OmniBuilder WorkManagement module can interface with third part Project
Management tools.
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Plan and estimate work
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Manage scope changes and approvals
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Identify tasks
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Tracks project activities
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Monitor and report progress
Team Development
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Support any number of developers
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Object Level locking
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No need to consolidate work among team members
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Teams can work in different locations (remote access)
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Optional check-out, check-in capability
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Communicate and assign tasks between team members
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