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For more than 20 years, Select has created a successful track record with tool and process solutions that have evolved based upon input from talented developers, a vast customer base and extensive market research.

These solutions have been primarily focused on business critical application development, deployment and management. The technology behind Select is continually recognized as being innovative, ensuring that customers’ demands are met to the fullest satisfaction. It is this three-way focus on development, customers and emerging markets that makes Select Business Solutions a leader in its field.

Select's Application Development Tools division provides a comprehensive suite of award winning, enterprise-scale, software development solutions for the modeling of businesses and systems using the business motivation model (BMM), business process modeling notation (BPMN), unified modeling language (UML), structured (SSADM and Yourdon) and data modeling techniques. In addition, its process maturity and component management solutions enable businesses to rapidly develop and implement improved, compliant software development processes.

For more information about Select Solution Factory™, Select Architect™, Select Process Director™, Select Reviewer™, Select SSADM™ and Select Yourdon™, as well as the large range of add-ons available, please see the Products section.

We are also the chosen UML or SSADM toolset within 75% of relevant UK educational establishments and are involved in a wide range of Higher Education Computing Courses worldwide. Our tools reflect the needs of lecturers and students alike, providing invaluable experience of commercially available software development tools, implementing standards such as UML,  BPMN, SSADM and Yourdon. Learn more about Select's Academic Site License Agreements (ASLAs).

Business process modeling (BPMN)
Business Process Modeling (BPMN)

Use Case diagram (UML)
Use Case Modeling (UML)

Class diagram (UML)
Class Modeling (UML)

SSADM Dataflow
Dataflow Modeling (SSADM)

Yourdon Dataflow
Dataflow Modeling (Yourdon)

Process Director
Process Improvement
 
Application Development Tools Blog
  • Do you know your business processes well enough to outsource them?
    If you read the Daily Telegraph you might have come across the Media  Planet supplement “Sourcing” last Tuesday (March 17th); it had the strap line “Utilising sourcing as part of your business strategy”. Of course we are all pretty familiar with the now standard model of outsourcing, or off-shoring software development. There are numerous destinations for [...]
  • Easing the ‘complexity’ of BPMN
    As a consultant with a business and systems modeling tool vendor, the conversations I have involving business analysts invariably seem to turn to the perceived complexity of the business process modeling notation (BPMN). It’s a topic which has had much coverage in the last year, following the publication of a research paper on BPMN usage by [...]
  • Why? Identifying the purpose of business systems
    Those familiar with the Zachman framework will recognise the need for identifying the ‘Why?’, and certainly I’ve come across many projects where without a clear indicator of the business reasoning behind development of new systems, those systems have, not surprisingly, failed to fully meet the business needs. Identifying the business motivation behind a project is perhaps [...]
  • One man’s goal is another man’s objective
    In my travels in recent weeks, talking to clients about the business motivation model, I’ve been struck by the number of folks who have welcomed the BMM simply because it provides a definition and context for business planning terms like goal and objective. While many have tried to communicate their business plan to a wider [...]
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