News Release

MacA&D 3.0
System Models, Software Design,
Requirements and Models from Code

March 4, 2009 - Excel Software began shipping MacA&D 3.0 for system analysts, software designers and programmers. The new software is a Universal Binary application for native performance on all Mac OS X computers. It has enhancements to the user interface, integrated help, manual set, report scripting engine, installer plus new features to add, remove, duplicate and individually lock or unlock editing on diagrams.

  • System Models & Simulation
    Draw causal loop diagrams with equations and graph simulated results.

  • Requirements Management
    Define, trace, manage, customize and report requirements.

  • Software Design
    Automate UML, structured analysis & design, database design and multi-task design.

  • Code Generation
    Create procedural, object-oriented and SQL code from models and dictionary.

  • Models from Code
    Capture structure charts, class diagrams and data models from code with MacTranslator.

  • Reports
    Generate standard and scriptable reports, import and export text or output image and PDF files.

  • Team Development
    Integrate requirements, specifications, models, code and multi-user documents.

Choose the best mix of software models for each development project. MacA&D supports process, data, class, state, structure, object and task models with popular methods and extensive customization. Create language independent models or generate source code for C++, Objective-C, Java, Delphi, PHP, SQL, C, Pascal, Basic and Fortran. MacA&D scales to large projects, multiple users, distributed team development and the integration of thousands of documents across the development process.

Requirement entries are defined as structured information in a dialog controlled by a user-defined template of field and value choices. Requirements can link to any target document, diagram or specific diagram objects with two-way traceability. Easily create, navigate and maintain links between thousands of requirement entries and deliverables. Information is presented through user-defined views, queries and reports.

MacA&D is available by Single User or Site License. The Standard edition is $495, Desktop edition $1195 and Developer edition $1995. The company web site has demonstration videos on UML, structured analysis and design, data models, code generation, diagram generation from code, requirements management and system models with simulation. Founded in 1985, Excel Software delivers software tools to thousands of users worldwide. Product lines include tools for software modeling, software development, software licensing and marketing automation.

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