3SL blog moves to threesl.com

Great News....

3SL's blog has moved in house.

Giving us greater flexibility in presentation and content an readers the assurance that since the information is hosted at threesl.com its a genuine source you can now find the information at:
www.threesl.com/blog/


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21st INCOSE Annual International Symposium 2011

3SL are pleased to confirm that they will be on stand 20 at the 21st INCOSE Annual International Symposium in Denver between 20th and 23rd June 2011.

Why do INCOSE think you should attend?

"The International symposium of INCOSE is in its 21st year leading the way into the future with the largest Systems Engineering event in 2011. Continue your professional development by being on the cutting edge of Systems Engineering technology. There are 35 paper sessions with 96 papers (including invited papers from SoS experts & IEEE colleagues), 6 panels debating various unresolved issues, 16 practical tutorials and 4 leading keynote speakers and so much more."

We'll be happy to meet you there and discuss how Cradle(R) can best meet you business needs.

For further information see the INCOSE site.

We will be at the IEEE Conference in Montreal in April

Why we Exhibit at the
IEEE 5th Annual International System Conference?

We offer products or services related to Systems Engineering … including engineering of complex systems, systems of systems, systems engineering, systems integration and systems thinking? This international Conference provides us with the opportunity to showcase our organization’s capabilities to several hundred technical and management decision makers in industry, academia and government responsible for SYSTEMS ENGINEERING in a variety of applications and domains.

We will be exhibiting from 4th - 7th April 2011.

For more details see the IEEE page

Cradle 6.4 is available now.

3SL are pleased to announce that Cradle 6.4 is now available for download from our website.

Cradle 6.4 is the acclaimed Requirements Capture, Requirements Management and Systems Engineering tool that delivers stable and reliable Requirements Management.

New features in this release include:

1. Dashboards

2. Ada Structure Graphs (ASGs)

3. Pivot Tables

4. Abstract Data Types

5. Graphs

6. RTF

7. Summary Views

8. Links

9. Import

10. Ownership

11. Web Access Review UI.

The Cradle 6.4 release is the best version of Cradle to date and offers you the most comprehensive requirements management software and systems engineering software package on the market.

For more information see the Cradle 6.4 release notes document (login required)

Cradle 6.3 is now available

3SL are happy to announce that Cradle 6.3 is now available from the 3SL website.

There are 20 new features and enhancements:

Cradle-PDM (Product Data Management)

1. A Cradle/Acrobat PDF link utility has been added to this release. This utility allows you to link a Cradle database to a specific area in a specific page in a PDF file. This utility uses DDE to control Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader using a pathname, page number, zoom level, x and y coordinates that are held in a binary frame.
2. A Cradle/Visio link utility has been added to this release. This utility allows you to link a Cradle database to a specific symbol in a Visio document. This utility uses a pathname, page number, and ID that are held in a binary frame. It also searches for a symbol in a document if the page number has not been specified.
3. A third utility has been added (Cradle Capture Utility) which allows a Cradle database to be populated with placeholder items for some or all of the symbols or groups on a Visio diagram. Each of these placeholder items contain the external reference data to be able to reference that symbol or group from within Cradle using the c_visiolink utility.
4. Projects can now be created on any machine providing you have access to the Cradle Database Server (CDS). The CDS may or may not be running when you create a new project locally but if you are creating a project remotely the CDS must be running.
5. Binary frames have now been extended to store up to 6 data items which are available as $DATA1 to $DATA6 Command Directives. These additional data items allow you to reference parts of external information, specifically to reference regions of pages in PDF files and to reference symbols in Visio drawings.
6. System note types, frame names, usernames and passwords can now have a name of up to 40 characters
7. The size of basic item type names has increased to 255. This does not include data definitions.
8. The Toolsuite installer has been improved to help users with mixed Microsoft Office environments.
9. You can no longer renumber PROJECT-owned items.
10. The Teamwork Converter has been improved to attempt to preserve the position of connector labels when converting diagrams.
11. A new Alerts section has been added to Project Setup. Most of this information has been moved from the Miscellaneous section. As well as this a new Alerts… button has been added to the Item Definitions section for Item Types. From here you can choose when item alerts are to be sent, e.g. when items are created, modified, deleted, recovered, etc
12. An error message will now be shown when attempting to create a project via a local CDS on a mapped network share on Windows. The path must be supplied in UNC format. When attempting to create a project remotely on a mapped network share a warning message will appear notifying the user to confirm project creation.
13. Frame types for OpenOffice components have been added to the default schema and the DEMO project. A $OOFFICE Command Directive has also been added which can be used to view/edit OpenOffice frames.
    
    Cradle-GATE (Gateway)
14. This is a new module as of Cradle-6.3. It provides a traceability management interface between Cradle and a wide variety of third party tools. The Cradle Gateway allows data in these sources to be cross referenced to any items in a Cradle Database, and, in effect, allows Cradle data to be linked into any number of data sources held in any number of files or databases for these other tools.
    
    Cradle-WEBA (Web Access)
15. Annotations have now been removed from Web Access and replaced with a new discussions mechanism. This new mechanism allows comments to be added to items. The hierarchy of comments is called a discussion. This new mechanism allows users to propose changes to information, discuss these changes and reach a decision about each change. Please note that any existing annotations in a Cradle Database are now interpreted as individual discussions whose subject is a summary of the discussions content. The decision will be set to Open. A new Discussions tab has also been added to the Query dialog so you can search the database based on discussions.
    
    Cradle-WRK (WorkBench)
16. You can now print the top-level row numbers when publishing a table. There is also an equivalent command line option for c_table (-rownums).
17. When displaying a query in Document style the heading fonts also apply to any linked items in any nested views. This only applies when the identity (number, key or hierarchical attribute) appear in the first column of the view.
    
18. Annotations have now been removed from WorkBench and replaced with a new discussions mechanism. This new mechanism allows comments to be added to items. The hierarchy of comments is called a discussion. This new mechanism allows users to propose changes to information, discuss these changes and reach a decision about each change. Please note that any existing annotations in a Cradle Database are now interpreted as individual discussions whose subject is a summary of the discussions content. The decision will be set to Open. A new Discussions tab has also been added to the Query dialog so you can search the database based on discussions.
    
19. A new type of report has been added, Baseline Comparison. This lets you choose a named baseline and then produces a report showing what has changed in the baseline compared to previous baselines.
    
20. When a reference frame is displayed the identity that is stored inside the frame is displayed instead of .

For more information, visit www.threesl.com and download the release notes

Visit www.threesl.com today to download Cradle 6.3

Friday Round Up

We are very busy here at 3SL developing the next updates and features. For my part I am developing an online training module for the website that will allow people who attend training courses to access the training material online for a period of time after the course.

This is step one in developing a bespoke full CBT module for the www.threesl.com website.

Friday round up

Friday again and the news this week is that we have had a very successful release of Cradle-6.2 this week.

The news of which is being picked up around the world and it is meeting with the approval of evaluators.

We have several companies renewing their maintenance agreements with us again and who have been happy users of Cradle for more than 10 years.

In upcoming news, a new feature to be added to the website soon is the online Cradle Computer Based Training Courses. In addition to this there will be a new Official Cradle Certification test which can be taken online and comprises a multiple choice section and a set of exercises to be completed and an export file produced which we analyse.

Email us for more information on becoming an Officially Certified Cradle Engineer.