Oracle UK Ltd has introduced Oracle CASE for SSADM Structured Systems Analysis and Design Methodology, an application development tool based on the UK government standard for software engineering. The product is designed around Cheltenham, Gloucestershire-based Select Software Tools Ltd’s SSADM Professional software, and supports the nine most common SSADM information-gathering techniques. These include a central respository, which stores designs and applications; design and analysis techniques including effect correspondence diagrams, function definitions and input-output structures; and method checking rules such as diagram editors and error and warning signals. Oracle CASE for SSADM is part of the Redwood Shores, California relational database company’s Co-operative Development Environment that was launched in February, and is designed to enable users to create or make existing applications compliant with the standard. The software is available immediately, but no prices have been given for it.
