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Select Solution Factory is an integrated set of products and modeling tools for Service and Component Based Development, design review, service/component management, requirements management, code generation and reuse. Select Solution Factory ensures that organizations leverage service and component based development and deliver systems that meet evolving business needs.

Select Solution Factory tightly couples component based development and solution assembly, transforming the way you deliver applications. It allows organizations to manage complex software development projects, increase reuse and deliver more reliable software. Select Solution Factory includes support for Relational Databases, XML, .NET (including Visual Basic, C++, Visual C#), IBM WebSphere, WSDL and Java.

With Select Solution Factory, you have the ability to reuse components and automate software development, significantly reducing the software development life cycle time and cost. Its flexibility improves time to market, increases staff productivity and enhances the quality of new business applications.

As the complexity of components increases, Select Solution Factory plays a greater role as a sophisticated UML modeling tool that helps tailor components to specific requirements. It includes both analysis and design functionality and uses visual tools to build components, manage component assets and support the assembly of components into entire applications.

Select Solution Factory comprises of the following main features:

Select Architect

A scaleable design environment for pragmatic Business Motivation Modeling (BMM), Business Process Modeling (BPM), service and Component Based Development and design (CBDesign), UML and database design. Select Architect is widely accepted and recognized as a consistent innovator in the design tools and modeling tools market.

Select Asset Manager

A pioneer in the component management space. It is the 'hub' for storing and tracking versions of an organization's software assets, including component specifications, EJBs, COM components, CORBA, web services and more. It provides a design-time library to support Select Business Solution's design by contract 'Supply, Manage, Consume' approach to Component Based Development (CBD).

Select Code Synchronizers

Select Synchronizers (Select JSync, Select C#Sync, Select CSync, Select ForteSync XMLSync, Select VBSync and VB.NETSync) UML driven code framework generation, reverse engineering and visual differencing for languages such as Java, XML Schema, Visual Basic, C++, Visual C#, IBM WebSphere, FORTE, SQL DDL and many other. Select Solution Factory only comes with your choice of one of these Select Synchronizers, all others are purchased separately.

Reviewer for Select Architect

An automated design reviews with model correction, management reports active mentoring and easy customization.

Optional Upgrades

Select Solution for MDA

A groundbreaking transformation and UML modeling tool designed to generate, reverse engineer and synchronize all your model viewpoints and your code, based upon UML designs.

Select Asset Browser

Provides web based access to Select Asset Manager repositories, enabling internet and intranet searching, facilitating wide reuse of existing software assets.

Select Process Director

A process deployment tool, based upon pre-loaded best practices or processes, including the Select Perspective.
 
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