Re: Case Tools

In article <352oer$t5h@netaxs.com> shonoo@Netaxs.com "Medha Pai" writes: > John Dennis (jdennis@netcom.com) wrote: > > : My company is a small company quickly turning into a large one. We have > : no case tool or methodolgy in place. Our current "case tool" is ERWin > : and MS-Word. Not pretty! We are looking at IDE's Software through Pictures. > : I was wondering if: > You may want to consider LBMS, System Architect, and bachman. > Bachman is a primarily a data modelling tool, and from what I have seen > the reporting capabilities are not as good as Erwin. > LBMS and System Architect are both process modelling tools, with > significant learning curves. I'm not sure what you mean by "process modelling" - we have a process managment tool called "Process Engineer" and a Client/Server CASE tool called "Systems Engineer". > Systems Architect supports several methodologies, while LBMS supports > only one. Also LBMS does not generate triggers . For some one used > to ErWin the data modelling capabilities of LBMS are no substitute. Well, SE can actually be used to support quite a few methods because of the range of techniques we support. We *do* allow generation of triggers with our Server Builder add on product. The last point is contentious! Best wishes, Eoin. -- Eoin Woods, LBMS Plc, Evelyn House, 62 Oxford Street, London W1N 9LF, UK Tel: +44-71-636-4213 Email: Eoin@copse.demon.co.uk Fax: +44-71-66-2708 or E.Woods@ieee.org "When do we start newsgroup comp.os.emacs ? :-)" These are my opinions, don't blame my employer!