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Managing Requirements Authoring for Complex Application Development Using the Microsoft Office System

Software development projects can be bolstered by more effective requirements gathering and authoring. With today’s distributed development teams often located in different time zones, communication and collaboration can be a challenge in the requirement-definition process. Leveraging XML as the backbone for data integration, solutions for requirements authoring using the Microsoft Office System can enable development teams to more easily author and edit requirements documents for complex projects.


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These featured partners have solutions based on the Microsoft Office System that are deployed at customer locations. Case studies of their solutions are available through the Solution Showcase.

SOFTAGON CORPORATION: Requirements Authoring Solution by Softagon
Softagon, working with the Microsoft Office System and Visual Studio 2005 Team System, provides a robust, familiar, and dependable set of tools that can help your organization to create an efficient, flexible, and cost-effective approach to managing complex, global, and time-constrained application requirements authoring processes.

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6D Technologies Incorporated: 6D Project Catalyst

Project Catalyst is the first easy to use comprehensive web enabled Methodology product suite built inside Microsoft Project EPM. Your organization can create and publish your own methodologies from within Project. Or Jump start using our methods: SDLCs, Project Management or Six Sigma.

   

Catalyst Professional is built inside Project Pro and has facilities for authoring and customizing best practices, generating project plans from your Pross Asset Library - built on top of Enterprise Templates. Manage Documents stored in Windows SharePoint Services from Project/Catalyst Pro. 

 

Catalyst Web Access/PWA allows views of methodology and Process Asset Library.

6D Technologies Incorporated: 6D IT Solutions Framework - SDLC Methodologies

6D IT Solutions Framework is a comprehensive set of development methodology paths.  6D IT Solutions Framework includes many SDLC paths including: Standard Development (Waterfall), Object Oriented, RAD, Component based development, Purchase Package, Legacy Systems Enhancement, Maintenance, and more.


6D IT Solutions Framework also has specific methodologies for deploying Microsoft Project EPM and all the supporting technologies such as Project Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Terminal Servers, etc.

 

6D Project Catalyst makes these lifecycles available on-line and provides a comprehensive environment where project staff can track all their work including assigned task descriptions, roles and responsibilities, standards and policies, document examples including templates, and project deliverables.

OTB Solutions Group LLC: Knowledge Driven Solution Accelerator

Create scalable, secure and extensible Office Business Applications in record time.  

Harness the power of the MOSS platform to deliver the next generation of knowledge-driven applications in a simple and practical manner.

 The OTB Knowledge-Driven Solution Accelerator (KDSA) complements and extends MOSS 2007 with the tools and components needed to rapidly create composite applications on MOSS with little or no custom code. 

 Teams can use KDSA with Agile methods to deliver solutions in half the time and one quarter the cost of custom development approaches.

 

Cimmetry Systems: AutoVue

AutoVue 19.1 for SharePoint enhances Microsoft SharePoint collaboration capabilities by adding powerful and user-friendly visualization, markup, digital mockup and real-time collaboration features for hundreds of native document formats including 2D/3D CAD, EDA, image and Office.

With AutoVue for SharePoint, the purchase of additional viewing tools or expensive software applications with steep learning-curves is unnecessary. Project collaboration is facilitated since a broader audience, regardless of the applications installed or the users’ technical skills can instantly and remotely access and review any document type supported by AutoVue directly from their SharePoint environment.

AutoVue leverages SharePoint’s version control, search and browse capability for easier project collaboration. All markups and annotations are saved as distinct AutoVue overlays directly into SharePoint, providing a single point of access for team design review.

Lincolnshire: Livelink ECM - Regulated Documents
Livelink - ECM Regulated Documents is a complete solution that enables organizations to manage and control key documents throughout their entire lifecycle.  By providing a consistent process for managing documents, Regulated Documents ensures compliance with various regulations, including the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA's) 21 CFR Part 11.
OPEN TEXT CORP: Open Text Content Lifecycle Management Services for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server

With Open Text CLM Services for SharePoint, companies can develop comprehensive compliance solutions, governing electronic enterprise content, such as email, file systems, SAP® and other record generating environments to ensure litigation readiness and support discovery processes.

 

Open Text CLM Services for SharePoint is well-suited to customers who are voracious users of SharePoint but are becoming concerned about both the costs and risks associated with increasing SharePoint usage. It addresses the principal concerns of both the IT and legal departments by capturing high-value, high-risk content from SharePoint into a centralized records management system and storage environment – Open Text Enterprise Library. This consolidated archive enables organizations to be certain record policies are being applied uniformly across all enterprise content, and that a single search activity can retrieve all relevant content, reducing the risks and costs associated with discovery orders and regulatory audits.

 

Open Text CLM Services for SharePoint is the base product of a complete suite of Open Text products and solutions for SharePoint.

Content Technologies ApS: DITA Exchange is an end-to-end, single-source-publishing and collaboration solution for building modular technical documentation in small, medium and large companies – based on SharePoint 2007 Server
 

Organizations are rapidly adopting the XML-based open standard DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) for creating modular content that can be reused and shared both internally and between businesses. The standard is used for:

 

 

Technical documentation

Quality system and regulatory compliance documentation

Operating procedures and user guides

Training materials

Online help and customer service documentation

 

FEATURES/FUNCTIONS

  • InfoPath form-based topic creation and editing
  • Browser based publication assembly (web part)
  • Built-in XML-based document converters
  • DITA e-learning to get started fast
  • Publish to Word (Open XML), HTML, PDF, Online help and DITA XML
CeeJay Software: CeeJay Connect Office Edition
CeeJay Connect is our groupware and collaboration service which allows users to access and share their
  • email
  • calendar
  • contacts
  • public folders
  • tasks
  • journals
  • notes
  • files and documents
AGS International Inc: e-IT Share Product

e-IT is a suite of integrated tools that supports enterprise business process leveraging Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007. e-IT provides an Out-of-the-Box Applications for Key Business Processes with Specific Solutions for specific customer needs. It covers Collaborative data management cross departments and partners/suppliers, enabling people to work efficiently in a real or virtual team. The Core e-IT applications addresses key company Product Business Intelligence issues and pains. Product could be any company work; either manufactured parts, service or process. e-IT  is built on top of an open SOA architecture to federate with enterprise applications (such PLM, ERP, CAD/CAE,CRM, etc.) and benefits from Secured data access by predefined company specific roles and audit trails thanks to Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007

 

Credera: "Communications, Collaboration, Portals, and Search Solutions"

Credera is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Microsoft Development Advisory Council member delivering top quality solutions to companies across many industries. Credera offers very rich Collaboration, Content Management, Portals, and Search Solutions to help you run a more efficient and profitable business. Credera's unique, high quality consulting approach helps assure that your solution will be implemented correctly and will be open and extensible to adapt with your business. Our solutions also result in decreased maintenance cost allowing IT to focus on supporting the business.

 

Our expertise spans the Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Groove, customizations to standard office products like Word and Excel, SharePoint BI technologies, and many of the other Microsoft Platform products.

 

Please contact us for a free consultation and estimate.

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