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Analysis & Design

Select Architect - a multi-user, highly scalable, analysis and design solution for service based application development, incorporating: Business Motivation Modeling (BMM), Business Process Modeling (BPM/BPMN), Unified Modeling Language (UML), Data Modeling and Requirements Capture.

Select Solution for MDA - extends Select Architect for generating, reverse engineering and synchronizing model viewpoints and code, based upon the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) standard.

Select Solution Factory - includes Select Architect (BMM, BPMN, UML and data modeling) and a range of popular add-ons for: automated design review, asset management and .NET or Java code generation/reverse engineering.

Select SSADM - includes visual modeling tools and automatic documentation features, to support SSADM.

Select Yourdon - provides integrated modeling support for the full range of modeling techniques (eg. Data Flow Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagrams) in the Yourdon Methodology.

Software Management & Reuse

Select Asset Manager & Select Asset Browser - help designers and developers manage, publish and reuse assets and services, speeding the delivery of high quality applications and leveraging existing investment.

Process Management & Improvement

Select Process Director - provides a practical approach for defining, managing, deploying - and most importantly, improving - your organizations software development life-cycles.
Select Perspective - is Select Business Solution's set of best practices for software development. It has evolved over the last 10 years to become the foremost Service and Component Based Development design process.

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Application Development Tools Blog
Do you know your business processes well enough to outsource them? 20 Mar 2009 \| 11:44 am 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 2 Mar 2009 \| 3:30 am 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 27 Feb 2009 \| 8:09 am 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 25 Feb 2009 \| 7:37 am 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 [...]

Application Development Tools Blog

Do you know your business processes well enough to outsource them? 20 Mar 2009 | 11:44 am
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 2 Mar 2009 | 3:30 am
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 27 Feb 2009 | 8:09 am
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 25 Feb 2009 | 7:37 am
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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