Smart Development Environment 5.1 Released

September 21, 2009

Visual Paradigm International Limited announced today the release of Smart Development Environment 5.1 (SDE 5.1).

SDE 5.1 introduces a number of new features, which includes:

• Matrix
• Analysis Diagram
• Use case flow of events editor
• Use cases and actors grid
• Voice documentation
• Glossary grid
• Report template designer
• Test case editor
• Web application screen mock up
• Support mirror model element from dependent project

Enhancements to SDE 5.1 includes:

• Customizable use case rank
• Combine multiple communication diagram message to single arrow head
• Support BPMN 2.0 notations
• Transit pool/lane to actor while transit business process task to use case
• Automatic sweep process after insert task
• Identify business process elements using textual analysis
• Support remove columns in generate database schema update script
• Synchronize multiple class diagrams and entity relationship diagrams
• Support collapse node in mind mapping diagram
• Reference other project model elements
• Allow show attributes as associations or attributes
• Support more options in find model element dialog box
• Java code round-trip engineering with multiple source path

Pricing and Availability

SDE 5.1 is now available through the Visual Paradigm online shop (visual-paradigm.com/shop/) and Visual Paradigm resellers (visual-paradigm.com/shop/authorizedresellers.jsp) beginning today. SDE is available in both single seat (developer based) license and floating license. 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, 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 continually developing and delivering software, services and partnerships to help customers accurately transform their system requirements into high-quality software solutions, all with minimum risk and maximum return on investment. All Visual Paradigm products are designed and developed to remove complexity, improve productivity and compress customers' software development time frames.