Smart Development Environment 4.4 Released

October 20, 2008

Visual Paradigm International Limited announced today the release of Smart Development Environment 4.4 (SDE 4.4).

SDE 4.4 introduces a number of new features and enhancements, which include:

• Design Patterns support
• Import Visio drawings into Visual Paradigm
• Element based revision history
• Nested lanes support in BPD
• Conceptual, logical and physical ERD support
• Define PK and FK relationship naming pattern
• Select target diagram when first synchronized between class diagram and ERD
• Unique and Index support for entities
• Visualize related model element

Enhancements to SDE 4.4 include:

• Increased speed in open project
• Performance tune up on teamwork operation
• Reduced resource consumption for publishing project

Pricing and Availability

SDE 4.4 is now available through the Visual Paradigm online shop (visual-paradigm.com/shop/) and through Visual Paradigm authorized resellers (visual-paradigm.com/shop/authorizedresellers.jsp). SDE is available under both single-seat (developer-based) and floating licenses. Single-seat license are available from US $99 for Modeler Edition to US $1399 for Enterprise Edition. Alternatively, these licenses can be purchased with a one-year software maintenance contract for prices starting from US $118.5 up to US $1678.5. A floating license is available from US $128.5 to US $1818.5, or US $154.0 to US $2182.0 including a one-year software maintenance contract. Both minor and major version upgrades are covered by the maintenance contract.

Smart Development Environment

SDE offers seamless integration of UML modeling tool with all leading IDEs (Visual Studio®, Eclipse, Borland JBuilder®, NetBeans/Sun™ ONE, IntelliJ IDEA™, Oracle JDeveloper, BEA WebLogic Workshop™). SDE embeds itself into IDE to provide a unified modeling and development environment. SDE product home page is available at visual-paradigm.com/product/sde/.

Visual Paradigm International Limited

Visual Paradigm International Limited is a leading provider of software solutions that enable organizations to develop quality applications faster, better and cheaper. Visual Paradigm is dedicated to the continuing delivery of softwares, services, and partnerships to help customers to accurately transform systems requirement into quality software solutions, with minimum risk and maximum ROI. All Visual Paradigm products are designed and developed to remove complexity, improve productivity, and compress your software development time frames.