CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
23 July 2007
Product News
BigLever Software and Telelogic Partner to Deliver the Industry's First Integrated Model-Driven Development and Software Product Line Solution
BigLever Software T, a leading provider of software product line development tools and services, and Telelogic® announced the creation of a partnership aimed at meeting customer demand for the integration of model-driven developmentT (MDDT) and software product line (SPL) technologies. With the unified capabilities of Telelogic's Rhapsody® MDD solution and BigLever's GearsT SPL solution, both companies' customers can realize major improvements in time-to-market, combined with the productivity gains of MDD and the dramatic increases in portfolio scalability delivered by SPL approaches.
The Telelogic Rhapsody/BigLever Gears Bridge solution is the industry's first convergence of these synergistic technologies. While MDD technology provides a powerful enabler for the rapid development of individual products within a product line, as well as greater conceptual clarity for the maintenance and evolution of those products over time, companies face complex challenges in managing product diversity across a product line. Software product line methods and tools are specifically designed to provide these essential capabilities. The integration of MDD and SPL technologies provides a simple, elegant new approach that enables companies to effectively incorporate the management of product diversity into their MDD processes.
"The embedded/real-time software industry clearly recognizes the value of MDD and the resulting productivity and quality gains," said Greg Sikes, executive vice president, Modeling Solutions at Telelogic . "The integration of Telelogic Rhapsody, and its support of MDD, with BigLever's Gears, and its support of SPL, provides the embedded/real-time software development community with another major advancement in the ability to develop, maintain, and leverage reusable software assets."
"As emerging SPL technologies have evolved, MDD has remained an under-served part of the SPL portfolio development lifecycle," said Charles Krueger, chief executive officer of BigLever Software. "Telelogic and BigLever joined forces to address this problem at the request of a mutual customer and soon discovered much broader market demand for integrating these innovative technologies. This wide-spread market interest combined with Telelogic's MDD experience and perspective and BigLever's SPL expertise and new generation methods created just the right confluence of ideas and demand to drive the convergence of MDD and SPL. This partnership will allow Telelogic and BigLever to deliver a leading-edge solution uniquely designed to embrace MDD as an integral part of SPL practice."
With this integration, development organizations can achieve significant productivity gains and heightened efficiency from utilizing: 1) Rhapsody MDD models, rather than working with traditional source code, and 2) Gears' SPL consolidation and automated production capabilities, rather than creating cloned copies of MDD models for each product or building "one-size-fits-all" software for all products. This new level of efficiency enables companies to deliver more new products faster, while reducing the development effort and optimizing product quality.
BigLever Software's software product line solution, Gears, addresses the challenges of engineering software for a portfolio of similar products. Gears provides an approach that shifts the development focus from a multitude of products to a single software production line capable of automatically producing all of the products in a portfolio. Gears can be used in any or all stages of the portfolio development lifecycle, from requirements to development, testing and deployment.
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