OMG:
As the shepherd to UML, the industry consortium continued to advance the practice of modeling; its merger with BPMI.org now brings it into modeling of business processes.

Borland:
All Together now… Borland’s modeling tool and the Core Architect piece of its software delivery optimization platform provide as complete a design portfolio as you’ll find.

Embarcadero:
Its vision is easy to “describe”—enterprise architecture is most effective when organizations can map out data standards and then trace their efforts.

IBM Rational:
The bloom isn’t yet off the industry-leading Rose, as new UML-based patterns for writing messaging into apps enhances modeling framework.

Microsoft:
Even though it couldn’t deliver on its modeling tool in 2005, talk of domain-specific languages helped push new way to think about modeling and code generation.

Telelogic:
Addition of high-end modeling suite for really big projects to its UML tools gives company coverage of a broad space in the software and systems design markets.

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