Large-Scale Model Development—The Team Approach

Application Modeling and Design is a key to cost-effective implementation. Repeatable modeling success —that is, higher quality and productivity—depends upon the ability to share results and actively promote standards.

Development managers face tremendous challenges when trying to coordinate shared resources manually. As models become larger, the need increases for multiple team members to update the same model at the same time. Moreover, as the team grows, the overhead required for manual coordination can escalate beyond reasonable control. The lack of an automated process means that:

• Revisions get lost.
• Individuals duplicate each other’s work.
• Consensus across a modeling team becomes difficult to obtain.
• Compliance with organizational standards turns into an afterthought.

A Real-World Solution

AllFusion Model Manager is the first multi-user modeling environment with real-world features, making coordinated, large-scale modeling possible. AllFusion Model Manager enables collaboration among project managers and standards administrators by providing services such as conflict resolution, versioning, security and standardization for multi-user modeling and reuse.

Easy to set up, AllFusion Model Manager is platform- and network- independent, and sits on your choice of popular relational databases. The administrative overhead of AllFusion Model Manager is proportional to the number and activity level of its users, and is fairly low; especially considering the value it brings to an organization.