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.

PRESS RELEASE

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Mark Walker

3SL
1.256.971.9500
mark.walker@threesl.com

3SL® Inc. Releases Cradle®-6.2 Requirements Management and Systems Engineering Software

New Version Supports XML and RIF 1.1a; Adding Document Import Functions and New Licensing Options

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., March 2nd 2010 – 3SL, a developer of innovative systems engineering products, today announced the release of Cradle-6.2. Cradle-6.2 implements the first of many planned steps to ensure interoperability, supporting both current and up and coming data formats. The newly added support for XML and RIF 1.1a highlights this commitment. XML allows for consistent and predictable mapping of data between Cradle and other data sources, while RIF 1.1a builds on the XML functionality, extending Cradle data schema to match the Requirements Interchange Format heavily used in European auto manufacturing.

Cradle software has long supported the import and publication of data from Microsoft® Word documents, breaking down large documents into individual, workable requirements within Cradle projects and publishing reports such as formal specification documents. Cradle-6.2 allows for the import of documents in segments versus the previous method of ingesting the entire document at once. This allows for sections of a document to be imported at a time when the data is relevant and as different item types without having to manually assign each change in item type across what is in many cases a multi-hundred page document. This support in Cradle-6.2 dramatically increases the efficiency and accuracy of data imports for a project.

3SL historically offered only a cost effective method of licensing based on concurrent users; permitting a larger collection of users to access the software throughout the day and across projects. Taking cues from customers, 3SL has added a named user licensing option which offers less expensive licenses tied to a particular user. The combination of concurrent and named user licenses presents 3SL customers with one of the most flexible and cost effective solutions for requirement management and systems engineering tool suites.

About 3SL
3SL is an acclaimed developer of leading-edge systems engineering processes and products. Most notably Cradle software, an evolutionary approach to formulating and executing a systems engineering environment. 3SL is headquartered in Huntsville, AL. For more information, visit www.threesl.com.

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3SL is proud to announce the official release of Cradle-6.2

All the staff at 3SL and 3SL inc. and our global distributors and partners are proud to announce the official release of Cradle-6.2

New Version Supports XML and RIF 1.1a; Adding Document Import Functions and New Licensing Options

This release, 'Cradle-6.2' is a major release of the Cradle environment. It provides many enhancements and bug fixes.

Cradle-6.2 can be run in any mixture of Windows® and UNIX/Linux® environments:

• PCs and servers running Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 2003 and 2008 servers
• Workstations and servers running UNIX:
• HP-UX® 11 or later for PA-RISC processor
• AIX® version 5.1 or later for the PowerPC processor
• Solaris® version 2.8 or later for the Sparc processor
• Any Linux with a version 2.4 or later kernel, such as RedHat Enterprise 3, SuSE 10 etc.
  

Any part of Cradle can run on any platform. You can mix platforms. You can move data from UNIX to Windows and vice versa without restriction simply by copying it; the format of all Cradle data, including Project Databases (PDBs), are identical on UNIX and Windows systems.

A total of 55 new enhancements are provided by the Cradle-6.2 release. They are listed in the release notes for this release and include:

• PDM enhancements to the Configuration Management System
• Improvements to the Project Setup interface
• Improvements to Frame Types
• Improvements to HID (Hierarchy Diagram) generation
• Improvements to printing
• Improvements to licensing with the addition of named user licensing
• Improvements to integrity checking
• Improvements to Document Loader's importing capabilities with the addition of the ability to import .docx files
• Improvements to the Document Loader capability allowing multiple captures
  
• Improvements to the support for XML import/export.
• Improvements to the Cradle SYS (Systems Modelling) display modes
• Improvements to the display allowing auto panning in diagrams when selecting, pasting or resising diagrams
• Improvement in the ability to convert Structure Charts to Data Flow Diagrams.
• Improvements in the Cradle Perf (Performance Modelling) module
• Improvements to the Document Generation module
  
• Improvements to the in the Document Publisher tool that allows save templates and publish documents in the .docx format
  
• Improvements in the WEBA Web Access module allowing the support of Frame Picklists
• Improvements in the Custom UI for WEBA
• Numerous improvements in the WorkBench tool

And much much more besides.

Cradle-6.2 is a major improvement in the ability to manage and control your requirements management and systems engineering projects.

Ask for an evaluation of Cradle-6.2 or book a Webinar.