MacA&D, MacTranslator ready for Mactels
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 14, 2006 at 6:30pm
Excel Software has released Universal Binary editions of MacA&D and MacTranslator for system and software modeling.
Company reps say that MacA&D OSX 2.1 runs three times as fast as version 2.0 on Apple’s new Intel based machines by eliminating the need for Rosetta emulation. MacTranslator OSX 1.1 runs about five times as fast on Mactels.
MacA&D is a tool for system modeling and simulation, requirements management, structured analysis and design, object-oriented modeling with UML and data modeling of information systems. It has diagram editors for process, data, class, state, object, structure and task models. Each model shows a different view of the software system integrated through a global data dictionary. C++, Java, Delphi, Objective-C and SQL code can be generated from model and dictionary data. Dynamic systems can be modeled, parameterized, simulated and then presented with live charts, graphs and tables. An integrated report generator offers standard reports plus scriptable custom reports. The Site License edition adds multi-user team dictionary and requirements.
MacTranslator scans source code to extract design information to a text file. That text is imported into the MacA&D modeling tool to automatically generate UML class models, structure charts and rich data models. A set of graphic models showing program organization can be generated from unfamiliar code with minimal human effort, according to the folks at Excel. Supported languages include many dialects of C, Pascal, Basic, Fortran, C++, Java, Object Pascal, Delphi, Objective-C and SQL.
MacA&D OSX 2.1 works with Mac OS X 10.1 or later. A single user license is US$495 for the standard edition or $1,995 for the developer edition. MacTranslator OSX 1.1 is $495. See the company’s web site for upgrade or site license pricing and online ordering.
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