Using models to ease communication in software projects and to help consistently apply architectural and design guidelines has become second nature to Interactive Objects. Our experts accompany you through all aspects and phases of a model-driven development project and advise you in setting up a corporate MDA strategy.

Using models to ease communication in software projects and to help consistently apply architectural and design guidelines has become second nature to Interactive Objects. Our experts accompany you through all aspects and phases of a model-driven development project and advise you in setting up a corporate MDA strategy.

MDD, MDSD or MDA - whatever today’s acronym for this set of techniques may be, a project applying it will require:

• A clear definition of the area of discourse and the software to be produced from models (a meta model or domain-specific language).
• An appropriate tool chain covering modelling and code generation, plus possibly reverse-engineering and model-to-model transformations.
• A sound, efficient and reliable transformation technology to enable both model-to-code and model-to-model transformations.

Models for Your Business

Today’s software development calls for shorter time to market, increased development productivity and overall cost efficiency. At the same time, applications have to be of high quality and efficiently support business processes. The key to success can be found in avoiding loss in translation from requirements to corresponding designs and on to their implementation. Such a chain of translation has to be agile and flexible to meet upcoming requirements in a timely and efficient way. Finally, the approach has to extend beyond the development stage of an application, also encompassing its maintenance and extensions to it.
Interactive Object’s ArcStyler was one of the first products to embrace OMG’s Model-Driven Architecture, utilizing the relevant technology standards and providing an innovative and feature-rich solution to model transformation. Our experts have significantly contributed to OMG’s MDA standardization effort. We look back on a track record of MDA projects using our own solutions or integrating with various commercial products and open source frameworks. And we are looking forward to bringing our experience to your use and let you benefit from the advantages of MDA:

• Efficient, high-quality and manageable software development.
• Specification independent of technology platforms and vendors, yet formal enough to generate parts of the application for varying technology platforms or vendors.
• Integration of modelling tools and IDEs used at the various project stages.
• Reusability of existing software building blocks.
• High level of automation with a potential of saving up to 45% in development efforts.
• Protected investments, since abstract models are more stable than today’s technology.