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Cradle from 3SL, the complete Model Based Systems Engineering Toolsuite, specialising in requirements management, requirements capture, model based systems engineering and for systems engineering software, support and consultancy, the logical choice: Cradle from 3SL.

January 2010 [Cradle 6.1]

Cradle Roadmap

3SL is pleased to advise that we have released the second issue of the Cradle Roadmap that is available for download from the Customer area in our website.

Cradle supports the full systems development lifecycle in one integrated product. This unique coverage means that there are four aspects to Cradle’s evolution:

  • Improved coverage, delivering support to parts of the lifecycle not fully addressed in earlier releases
  • Functionality, to deliver more features in a part of the lifecycle where Cradle already has support
  • Architecture and interoperability, to support new operating platforms or new or improved tool data/control integration with other tools and environments
  • Usability, to make the existing features even easier to use

3SL is committed to evolve Cradle in all of these respects and in doing so to communicate our future plans for Cradle as clearly as we can.

We understand that organisations have large and complex IT architectures and need to plan the evolution of their IT infrastructure very carefully. In particular:

  • Changes in the host IT platform can render applications inoperable
  • Application upgrades can force changes to the IT platform for which the organisation is not yet ready
  • Application upgrades need to be carefully planned and a migration plan developed
  • IT resources are generally scarce and all IT activities need to be prioritised
  • If IT has been out-sourced or run as a cost or profit centre, application upgrades can be a project cost and have to be justified

3SL responds to these challenges with:

  • Fixed release dates
  • Advanced notices of release contents

This is the second issue of the Cradle Roadmap, we will update it quarterly.