Date: September 26, 2006
Adaptive Announces Next Major Release of its Repository
Suite of Products, Built on the Acclaimed Adaptive Foundation™
Greater interoperability in bringing together
architecture information, support for the latest industry standards,
improved usability, and enhanced SOA and Metadata Management capabilities.
September 26, 2006 - Adaptive, Inc.,
a leading provider of standards-based Repository products, today announced
the general availability of Version 4.0 of its Adaptive product suite,
including Adaptive Foundation™, Adaptive Enterprise Architecture
Manager™ (EAM), Adaptive Business Process Manager™ (BPM),
Adaptive IT Portfolio Manager™ (ITPM) and Adaptive Project Portfolio
Manager™ (PPM).
New features in Adaptive’s Version 4.0 release
include:
• UML 2.1 Import/Export
Adaptive continues its industry leading support for
the use of standards to achieve interoperability with other tools
and data sources by providing import/export of UML 2.1, the latest
version of the OMG® standard for systems analysis and design.
Import/Export of UML 2.1 allows Adaptive users to exchange
modeling information with the latest version of the UML modeling tools
on the market, which enables the information from these modeling tools
to be imported into Adaptive Repository™, integrated with modeling
and architecture information from other sources, and analyzed to achieve
end-to-end traceability.
• Role-based Control of Navigation Maps,
Classification Schemas and Item Types
Adaptive has extended its unique role-based control
of the user interface to include navigation maps, classification schemas
and item types. Making these additional capabilities role-based provides
users with a more tailored user experience that is ideally suited
to their specific responsibilities and the needs of the tasks they
must perform.
• Explorer View for Hierarchical Relations
Adaptive Version 4.0 has added a new Explorer view
for hierarchical relations. This Explorer view is used for displaying
hierarchical relationships such as process/function decomposition,
and organization structures in intuitive tree structures, and supports
selective expanding and closing of “tree branches”. An
in-place focus panel allows users to select an item of interest from
the tree view and immediately see its detail appear in the panel without
waiting for a separate window to open, or losing sight of the original
hierarchy.
• Support for Oracle® 10g and Oracle®
10g/XE
Adaptive now supports deployment using Oracle 10g,
including Oracle 10g Express Edition (Oracle 10g/XE), providing users
with the most current and robust database management system. Oracle
is providing Oracle 10g/XE free to use for smaller installations.
Use of Oracle 10g/XE can significantly reduce the total cost of ownership
for an Adaptive installation.
• Version Merging
Adaptive has improved its industry leading configuration
management capability by adding a merge feature that enables the changes
made in separate version branches to be merged together. This merge
feature supports sophisticated configuration management processes
that require multiple teams to work in parallel along separate branches
and then automatically integrate their changes when a milestone is
reached. Users also have the ability to prioritize how conflicts are
resolved during the merge.
• Enhanced Support for SOA and Metadata
Management
To better support the metadata requirements of service-oriented
architecture (SOA), Adaptive has extended its underlying metamodels,
item types and views to provide explicit support for modeling services
and messages. Metadata Management enhancements include support for
XML Schema and COBOL copybooks, and more sophisticated data lineage
capabilities required to assess the impact of changes from data elements
to the software and business processes affected by them.
"Based on the Adaptive vision of being the repository
hub for enterprise metadata, and through close collaboration with
our customers and partners, we have developed significant new capabilities
in Adaptive Version 4.0.”, said James B. Gambrell, CEO of Adaptive.
“These new capabilities extend our technology leadership in
the metadata management and enterprise architecture repository markets."
About Adaptive
Adaptive provides a scalable, web-based enterprise-class
metadata repository to support and manage multiple models, architectures
and tools across an evolving set of technologies, applications and
users. Adaptive’s repository enables organizations to capture
and share consistent metadata to support the entire change management
cycle including planning and architecture, analysis and design, development
and implementation and monitoring and governance.
Adaptive Foundation™ is a repository platform
that enables Adaptive and its technology partners to quickly create
applications which encompass techniques, tools and analytical capabilities
tailored to target specific domains or markets. The Adaptive suite
includes Adaptive Foundation™, Adaptive Enterprise Architecture
Manager™ (EAM), Adaptive Business Process Manager™ (BPM),
Adaptive IT Portfolio Manager™ (ITPM) and Adaptive Project Portfolio
Manager™ (PPM).
Adaptive works with many Global 2000 companies and governments
around the world to address the challenges of enterprise architecture,
business performance improvement, IT governance, meta-data management
and Model Driven Architecture™.
Contact:
Ylva Barker
Marketing Manager
+44 (1202) 491-251
ylva.barker@adaptive.com
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