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Borland Revs Together 2006 for Eclipse Enterprise Modeling

Borland has announced an upgrade to its Together 2006 for Eclipse enterprise modeling product. Together 2006 for Eclipse Release 2 is based on the open source Eclipse 3.2 framework for software development, working directly within the Eclipse 3.2 shell.

“Providing UML modeling capabilities for model-driven development continues to be a key area of expertise for Borland, but our visual design capabilities have evolved to be even more than that,” said David Hauck, director of product marketing, Borland. “Not only does Together support a number of common visual languages and standards to help improve communication across functional teams, it also brings the benefits of visual design to other areas of the application lifecycle like requirements definition. This is an easy way to simplify collaboration and drive productivity across IT roles and business stakeholders.”

“To maximise the success of reuse programs, IT organisations are increasingly coordinating different models of the various architectures across the enterprise, [which] is fuelling the integration and convergence of the markets for business process analysis (BPA), UML, and database design modelling methods and tools,” said Michael J. Blechar, Research VP, Gartner, in a recent report, “This gradual convergence of the methods and tools used by technical architects, business modellers, developers and database designers will enable enterprises to better leverage their staffs’ interrelated and complementary expertise.”

“We use Together to help us understand our existing code base and augment it as new requirements and features are designed,” said Paul Hudgins, application architect at Ciena. “Driving system design through models is key for us, especially as new customer requirements arise, as is leveraging Together to facilitate tighter communication between our distributed development teams. New features in this release can help companies more completely leverage models across the lifecycle, which can ultimately drive greater business value in finished applications.”

Other key capabilities of Together 2006 for Eclipse Release 2 include the following:

Expanded productivity for business analysts
Advanced MDA capabilities
SOA manageability
Model and Code Quality Assurance

“The role that Borland is taking to drive modeling advancements within Eclipse will not only benefit the larger community, but also allows us to create a standardised foundation upon which to build our commercial products,” said Richard Gronback, co-leader of the Eclipse Modeling Project and chief scientist at Borland. “We expect our use of Eclipse modeling technologies to give customers a greater degree of flexibility, usability, and richness without the risk of a proprietary platform.”


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