SteelTrace announces Rational Rose integration for its Catalyze product

One of the leading requirements capture tool, Catalyze now integrates seamlessly with Rational Rose, thus filling the gap between Visual modelling tools and Requirements Management tools

http://www.steeltrace.com/images/logo.jpg" border="0" align=left>Dublin, Ireland-based SteelTrace Ltd (http://www.steeltrace.com/">www.steeltrace.com) yesterday announced integration of its flagship Catalyze use-case-driven requirements and process-capture software with Rational Rose, Rational Software Corp's market leading unified modeling language (UML) tool.

According to the company, this means that Catalyze projects can now be opened within Rational Rose and vice versa. This allows users with little or no UML experience to model and capture use cases in Catalyze. Once the requirements are captured, the technical team can open the Catalyze file within Rational Rose. Use cases appear in UML use-case diagrams and each use-case flow is depicted in a UML activity diagram, ensuring that the business logic is carried over into the world of UML.

Rational gave the thumbs-up to the integration. "Less technical users can use Catalyze to easily capture business and system requirements in a use-case driven way," said Bill Taylor, director of developer marketing at Rational. "This integration provides an easy way for less technical users to communicate business requirements to developers designing complex systems with Rational Rose."

http://www.steeltrace.com/images/mkt_cat_drives_all.gif" width="222" height="158" align=left> SteelTrace's CTO Fergal McGovern said that Rational's proposed acquisition by IBM Corp is seen by SteelTrace as "nothing but opportunity". He said the company is hopeful that it can forge an even tighter partnership with IBM than it has enjoyed with Rational. He also said the company is currently beta testing a new version of Catalyze aimed at business process requirements capture, viewing and management. This integration of Catalyze with Rational Rose becomes even more pertinent in the Indian context because of the large developer base in India.

SteelTrace is a privately held company with UK-based netdecisions Ltd (http://www.netdecisions.com/">www.netdecisions.com) its majority stakeholder. Its Catalyze Solo and Catalyze Collaborate tools are said to help business process engineers, project managers, business analysts, and systems analysts capture, view and manage customer requirements and system specifications. The company, which was founded in February 2001, said it hopes to break even by the end of 2003.

netdecisions, is a global company specialising in delivering business-focused technology solutions, enabling companies to unlock their agility using an integrated approach. netdecisions has software development centres running out of Mumbai and Vizag in India.

You can also http://www.steeltrace.com/download_evaluate.asp">download a trial version of Catalyze 2.3.