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Working with Innovator

With its architecture, configuration possibilities, supported notations and editors and tools, Innovator implements certain modeling concepts based on international standards.

Open Modeling Platform

The modeling software, Innovator, supports business process modeling, object-oriented software analysis and object-oriented design, as well as relational data modeling. Innovator is especially suited for model-driven software development as it enables domain-specific language extensions using UML 2 profiles.

Business process, requirements, software system and data models can be created, modified and linked together in Innovator. The roles involved work on a homogeneous user interface in the style of Microsoft Office. This enables transparency and possible savings and improvements to be made, especially in projects which have a high dynamic on the business side of things and are developed based on existing software systems and databases.

All necessary editors are integrated and available within the application. Various diagrams and their relationships can be displayed using whiteboard diagrams, which enables you to visualize model-to-model links.

The modeling software's open architecture is implemented using a powerful API.

Innovator for Business Analysts

Innovator for Business Analystshas all you need for specifying requirements for IT applications and business processes which are supported by these IT applications. Business process modeling with BPMN 2.0, class models for business objects and UML 2 use case diagrams are supported, as are extensions for mask flow diagrams, org charts and structure diagrams.

Innovator for Software Architects

Innovator for Software Architectsis an object-oriented modeling tool which consistently supports model-driven architecture. This gives you maximum future assurance and technological neutrality.Innovator for Software Architectsprovides you with a profile for the UML 2 standard of the Object Management Group (OMG) and offers you optimum adaptation to your development process.

Unique mapping options ensure consistency throughout the models and a high level of productivity. You efficiently use the results of your business process, data and object models for your object-oriented application development.

Innovator for Database Architects

Innovator for Database Architectsis the data modeling tool for the new Innovator product generation. Conceptual ER models can be mapped or modeled with user-specific standard notations using diagrams and tabular editors. Database schemata are normally the result of mapped ER models. The schemata and databases which are to be created are compared using an integrated comparison function so that changes can be evaluated easily and carried out in a controlled manner.

Unlike with other manufacturer-specific database design tools, conceptual schemata can also be mapped onto other relational database systems.

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