The yardstick everyone measures against. “Atlantic” tied Rational’s modeling tools to Eclipse 3.0 and to the rest of the IBM tool chain. Rose (now Rose XDE) remains the de facto standard modeler.

Artisan
Leads by bringing UML and SysML to real-time embedded systems.

Borland
Re-emphasizes modeling, brings UML to Microsoft’s Team System.

Embarcadero
Product breadth maintains position at the forefront of data modeling.

I-Logix
Model-driven development focus of embedded development arena.

Magic
Business process and workflow designer eases integration troubles.

Popkin
Models entire enterprise architecture, not merely software projects.

Select Business Solutions
Drives UML specification, MDA from a component perspective.

Telelogic
Rounds out round-trip engineering among models, C++, Java code.

Versant
Maps server business objects, relational databases with UML.

 

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