Business Process Analysis   |   Structured Analysis and Design   |   UML and Software Engineering   |   Database Modelling  

Today academic institutions must place more and more emphasis on the employability of their students. As such, Aptero Solutions is keen to ensure that students of software engineering disciplines are of immediate value to commercial organizations once they graduate.

With strong relationships with universities and colleges throughout Europe and North America, Aptero Solutions together with it's partners MID and Mendix, provide invaluable experience of commercially available tools. All our tools are available as part of an Academic Site License for educational use.

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MID Innovator Enterprise Edition - Academic Site License

You get everything from business process modeling, object-oriented and structured software analysis, object-oriented design, code generation and data modeling - in one integrated platform. 

It's a comprehensive analysis and design environment that supports the needs of tomorrows Business Analysts, Software Architects and Database Architects.

Innovator Function

Structured Analysis and Design

Data Flow Diagram

Aptero recognize the importance of teaching traditional software development concepts and approaches, such as SSADM and Yourdon. As part MIDs integrated modeling platform, Innovator Function is the flexible tool for function-oriented modeling with structured analysis and structured design. Structured development is still an efficient approach to technical applications in the embedded system, as well as when implementing object orientation.

Innovator Function provides standard methods for structured modeling and offers you the security of a perfected and proven tool. Existing structures and applications can be integrated in the model. This makes further development and maintenance easier.

In addition, Innovator Function offers a seamless connection to business process and data modeling, as well as the possibility of integration in object-oriented development.

Use Case Diagram

Class and Composite Structure

Innovator for Software Architects

UML, Component and Service Based Development

Innovator for Software Architects is the flexible tool for object-oriented modeling with UML 2.  It provides you with a profile for the UML 2 standard Object Management Group (OMG) , with the ability to adapt this to your specific environment.

Highlights

• Object-oriented modeling with UML 2.3
• Server-sided profiles for customizing and extending UML 2
• Flexible code / text generation from models which can be customized to suit your requirements
• Integration with business process and requirements modeling from Innovator for Business Analysts
• Integration of Innovator Data data models via the OO-ER mapper

...see the Innovator for Software Architects product page

Innovator for Business Analysts

Business Process Modelling
Notation (BPMN 2.0)

Business Process Analysis and Design

Innovator for Business Analysts combines modeling languages from various standards into one role-specific tool; business analysts can use it with both BPMN 2.0 and UML for specifying business processes and requirements for IT applications and SOA.

Highlights

• Business process modeling with BPMN 2.0
• Requirements analysis with textual requirements and mask flow diagrams
• Modeling use cases with UML integrated with BPMN
• Business object models with UML integrated with BPMN
• Mapping models to Innovator object models for service development and application development

...see the Innovator for Business Analysts product page

Innovator for Database Architects

Mapping from the Conceptual
Schema to the
Database Schema

Logical and Physical Database Modelling

A highly flexible environment for all your data modeling activities, along with Information Management Meta-model (IMM), Entity-Relationship Modeling (ERM) and Structured Entity-Relationship Modeling (SERM).

Highlights

• Conceptual data modeling with entity relationship models
• (ERM) design of database schemas with IDEF1X diagrams
• Reverse engineering of database schemas via JDBC
• Customizable SQL/DDL generation
• Support of IBM DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Informix, etc.

...see the Innovator for Database Architects product page

Mendix - Academic Site License

Mendix: Web Application Development

Mendix provides a glimpse into the future of application development for web-based business portals and cloud applications. Based on pioneering research into Model Driven Application Delivery, Mendix uses visual models to capture business requirements, then translates them automatically into working business applications. Zero code needed.

...see the Mendix product page