Tag: SaaS

Software as a Service (SaaS). One of the methods that can be used to deploy Cradle

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3SL Cradle Cloud Services

Our Cradle “cloud” services (SaaS – Software as a Service) provide access to 3SL’s Requirements Management and Systems Engineering tool – Cradle using remote servers. This means there is no need to install the software on your company systems.

Cradle SaaS
Cradle Cloud Service

They are also a cost effective way to get up and running with Cradle.

3SL offers a choice of Cradle-Enterprise systems delivered as Cradle cloud services from a choice of servers, in a range of fixed term subscriptions, each accessed by your choice of concurrent users.

The Cradle service provides Cradle directly to the users from a remote environment managed by 3SL:

  • In a matter of days from order
  • With no software installations
  • Needing no, or little, work from your IT

What is the Cradle Service?

The Cradle service:

  • Is a self-contained set of Cradle and third party software tools
  • Is integrated with your filesystems and printers
  • Is secure and resilient
  • Needs no administration by your organisation
  • If you wish, is linked to your corporate email
  • If you wish, is run on servers exclusive to you

The Cradle service delivers the latest version of Cradle, and related applications directly to user’s desktops. Cradle and the other tools appear in windows like any other application that a user runs locally. But Cradle, and your databases, all run on remote servers inside the Cradle service.

You can have any number of databases. They, and the data inside them, are private to you. 3SL will manage the service so you can be assured that it is always available.

You can choose a lower cost shared service or a dedicated service. In the shared service, you share servers at 3SL in the UK with other subscribers, keeping privacy of your data and databases. In a dedicated service, 3SL creates a virtual private cloud (VPC) of servers using a third party hosting provider that are exclusive to you and located in any geographic area that you choose.

All databases are backed up automatically with a 3 hour RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and an 8 hour RPO ( Recovery Point Objective). Backups are held for 8 months.

Cradle Subscriptions

The Cradle system types available as a subscription are:

  • Cradle Enterprise-RM Basic – requirements management including the ability to generate metrics and dashboards
  • Cradle Enterprise-RM Pro – requirements management including the ability to generate metrics, dashboards and produce quality documentation
  • Cradle Enterprise-SE Basic – systems engineering including systems modelling and the ability to generate metrics and dashboards
  • Cradle Enterprise-SE Pro – systems engineering including system modelling and the ability to generate metrics, dashboards and produce quality documentation

The Cradle subscriptions can be packaged into simple fixed term durations ranging from one month to sixty months. This allows you to budget and ensure cover for a whole host of proejcts. You will be free to finish or renew as your project needs at the end of the term.

Cradle SaaS in a Nutshell

  • Choose from a range of Cradle Enterprise systems to provide the capabilities you need
  • Choose a shared or dedicated host environment
  • Specify the number of users that you need to have access to the environment
  • Specify how long you want the service for
  • Work in any number of databases
  • Upload and download data and results easily from your local IT systems
  • Print directly to your local devices if needed
  • On-boarding service to help you get started
  • Off-boarding service to preserve your work before your subscription ends
  • Add extra terms and change who can access the service at any time

For pricing of the Cradle subscriptions please visit our website.

 

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SaaS not SaaS

Software As A Service (SaaS)

SaaS not SaaS, a rather confusing statement when you look at the use of acronyms. We can assure you that Cradle Software As A Service is what we mean. However, we’ve had a bit of fun looking at some of the other meanings.

Software as a Service (Saas) not Southend Amateur Angling Society
SaaS not Southend Amateur Angling Society

 

Shared or dedicated servers and not the lifesaving work of South Australian Ambulance Service.Software As A Service not South Australian Ambulance Service

SaaS not South Australian Ambulance Service

The full Cradle experience and not the promotion of science in agriculture offered by the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists

Software as a Service (Saas) and not Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists
SaaS not Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists

 

Cradle SaaS from Barrow but not to be confused with the historic Barrow-in-Furness product – Marsh’s Sass

Software as a Service not Marsh's Sass
SaaS not Marsh’s Sass

There’s a Cradle SaaS collection suitable for you, but if you’ve got a yawny #FridayFeeling, then maybe you need to look at the work of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service instead.

Software as a Service (Saas) not the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service
SaaS not Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service

Whilst today Jan 30th 2019 we’ve seen the first heavy snow flakes in Barrow, we can assure you there snow time like the present to get Cradle Software as a Service not Snow and a Shovel

Software as a ServieNOT Snow and a Shovel
SaaS NOT Snow and a Shovel

Mini Poll

Please answer our Mini Poll, whether you prefer the:

  • ownership, control and flexibility of software purchase,
  • simplified, outsourced benefits of a managed service.

Cradle

Our Requirements Management and Systems Engineering software is available in a number of S a a S flavours. For information of the subscription products see Subscriptions on the Products menu.

UPDATED: April 2020 – Image tags
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September 2018 Newsletter

Budget Thoughts

based on image from Pexels.com, costs are both project and capital / infastructure based
Budget Thoughts

As we head towards Q4, both businesses and governments will be looking at their costs to date and their costs for next year. As we mentioned in last September’s newsletter, one way of controlling your project costs is to use Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) with costings associated with each element. Those costs are for the actual implementation of the elements of the project, materials or labour. However, every business has base running costs associated staff, buildings, machines and software.

Running Costs

How do you plan your yearly costs? What does your jurisdiction count as capital investment and what as running costs? Need a fixed price for a fixed period of your project? Do you have an IT department that is more wrapped up in red tape than a red billiard ball in a tin of red paint within a red (reusable of course) red carrier bag? Don’t like the installation cost of keeping up to date with the latest versions of software.

If the answer is ‘yes’ to any of the above, then SaaS could be the way to go.  3SL is hard at work putting our hosted software service provision together. Watch out for further announcements.

Mini Poll

Please answer our Mini Poll, whether you prefer the:

  • ownership, control and flexibility of software purchase,
  • simplified, outsourced benefits of a managed service.

Cradle Latest Version

The latest version 7.4.0.2 has all the latest 7.4 patches. If you’ve not downloaded and installed it, please consider doing so to ensure you have the best Cradle experience. Anyone with a 7.4 licence code is entitled to this update.

Fixes include;

  • An issue setting names for requirements and notes in the Item Properties dialog.
  • A glitch showing some RTF frames.
  • Exact match query not returning all versions.
  • An issue with historic blank alerts, and item ownership changes.
  • Opening parent diagram or deleting symbol could hang.
  • Document Publisher failed when checking for existing processes.
  • Web Access bug with LOGIN_UI_SHOW parameter.
  • Improvement in queries on RTF frames now supporting <null> and !<null> searches.
  • Better detection for Microsoft® Office 365 during installation.

Charity

User 3SL30 for a £30 discount see https://www.threesl.com/blog/birthday-voucher-30/ ‎
Discount code

We have a special “Secret (not!) Birthday Discount” offer of £30 off single user prices and licences.

However, those buying Cradle Enterprise licences can choose to donate £30 per licence bought to a charity of their choice. Ts&Cs apply

Social Media

Twitter

tweet by B1M regarding hyperloop
Hyper Loop

We love keeping an eye on what’s new in the field of engineering. The prospect of an airline speed train caught our eye.
The vacuum in here is neither hand-held, vortex, bagged nor available at any supermarket / electrical retailer! However it will be required to shift vast quantities of air.

illustration of the use of pictures within modelling environemtn in MBSE Cradle tool
Cat in Cradle

And on a lighter note we mused at International Cat Day placing a cat in the #Cradle as an illustration in the use of images in diagrams as part of the MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) representation of a system.

 

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Cradle SaaS

3SL Introduce ‘Cradle Subscriptions’ .

3SL are would like to announce our latest product. The Cradle Subscriptions option is a SaaS (Software as a Service) product that that provides access to 3SL’s requirements management and systems engineering tool Cradle using remote servers. There will be no need to install software on your own company systems.

Cradle Software As A Service
Cradle SaaS

Configurations

Cradle Enterprise offers huge flexibility in terms of the modules you can choose to licence and how many of each concurrent user you’ll need. This provides ultimate flexibility. In order to provide a hosted service and keep administration simple, Cradle ‘SaaS’ will be offered in four ‘flavours’ similar to the versions available as single user products. We offer the most popular licences in collection at a set ratio depending on the number of users.

So whether you are collating requirements, designing a system model, running a dashboard or publishing a document, there’s a SaaS collection form you.

Cradle Licences CollectionEnterprise-RM BasicEnterprise-RM ProEnterprise-SE BasicEnterprise-SE Pro
FunctionsRequirements elicitation and processing.Requirements elicitation and processing with project management functions and publishingRequirements and System modelling.Requirements and System modelling,
project management functions and publishing

Shared or Dedicated

For smaller projects, at a really keen price, you can pick a shared server hosted by 3SL with a shared database backend. This is ideal to get you up and running or to give you an easy way to test the benefits of an enterprise level system. This would be a great way of quickly scaling from a single user system to an enterprise arrangement as more people onboard to you project.

For larger corporate users wanting a little more control and no shared resource, Cradle is available on a cloud server. There will be a dedicated CDS (Cradle Database Server) just for your projects. This will provide you with the full power of an enterprise system without you needing your own IT hardware or managers.

Terms

Cradle SaaS can be packaged into simple fixed term durations. These will be available from one month to sixty months. This will allow customers to budget and ensure cover for a whole host of projects. You’ll be free to finish or renew as your project needs at the end of a term.

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02/10/2018 – Release of SaaS

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Cradle Available as Packaged SaaS through G-Cloud 11

G-Cloud 11

The UK government Digital Market Place Cloud Software applications offer a wide range of software aimed at fulfilment of central and regional government contracts,  government agencies’ work and local authority use. This ranges from accounting to transport, healthcare to sales. We are pleased to announce that Cradle is available as SaaS through G-Cloud 11 for agile and phase-based projects under the Information and communications technology (ICT) services.

Services

We are offering a range of packaged SaaS services that include Cradle licences, a pre-defined schema and intensive support from 3SL for both unclassified (IL0) and OFFICIAL (certified IL3) deployments:

  • 3SL Cradle Business Analysis (unclassified) and Official IL3 (classified)
  • 3SL Cradle Agile Collaboration (unclassified) and Official IL3 (classified)
  • 3SL Cradle Systems Engineering (unclassified) and Official IL3 (classified)
  • 3SL Cradle Requirements Management (unclassified) and Official IL3 (classified)
  • 3SL Cradle Application Lifecycle Management (unclassified) and Official IL3  (classified)
  • 3SL Cradle Business Process Modelling (unclassified) and Official IL3  (classified)
  • 3SL Cradle Agile Software Development (unclassified) and Official IL3  (classified)
  • 3SL Cradle Agile Software Management (unclassified) and Official IL3 (classified)
  • 3SL Cradle Application Lifecycle Development (unclassified) and Official IL3 (classified)

Prices start from as little as  £20 per user per month. Including Email, webchat and phone support and full documentation included. Optional onsite support and training available.  This can be supplied on Windows® or Linux®.

Customisation

A wide range of user customisation is available including:

  • Items’ (attributes, links and  properties)
  • Display of chosen data and layout through queries, views, forms,
  • Processing data to give graphs, reports, documents, metrics, KPIs/dashboards, process
  • CM (Configuration Management) system  workflows
  • UI (User Interface)  layout and content
  • Authentication and access control

Details

For details, see here:

screen shot of 3SL g cloud services
G Cloud

For a short summary of Cradle, see our video here: We’re sure you’ll find our services useful to completing successful projects. We look forward to working with you!

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Cradle Now Available as SaaS via G-Cloud 8!

We are pleased to announce that Cradle is now available as SaaS through G-Cloud 8 for agile and phase-based projects.

We are offering a range of packaged #SaaS services that include #Cradle licences, a pre-defined schema and intensive support from #3SL for both unclassified (IL0) and OFFICIAL (certified IL3) deployments:

– Agile Collaboration
– Agile Software Development
– Agile Software Management
– Application Lifecycle Development
– Application Lifecycle Management
– Business Analysis
– Business Process Modelling
– Requirements Management
– Systems Engineering

Prices start at £20 per user per month.

For details, see here:

https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/search?q=3sl&lot=saas

and as a short link here:

http://ow.ly/X4Dd302Ohbe

and for a short summary of Cradle, see our video here: https://youtu.be/bgiQQ0N8bV4

We hope that you will find our services interesting! We look forward to working with you!