The Smartfacts Platform

Owned by Christoph Bergner
Last updated: Feb 22, 2023
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Core Use Cases

Most of the companies using Smartfacts use it a traceability platform across the whole “V” aiming to link engineering artifacts like requirements, test cases, architecture artifacts, source code and other pieces of information that might also be maintained in proprietary authoring tools. Nevertheless, there is more than traceability:

  • Easy access to engineering artifacts
    Everybody should be able to access model-based content easily and in a consistent way, independent of the tool that was used to author the information.

  • Effective collaboration

    Smartfacts users should be able to communicate effectively in the context of model-based content by adding comments to diagrams, chatting about a model, adding documentation pages or carrying out reviews.

  • OSLC based traceability management

    Smartfacts comprises mechanisms to build links cross tool and cross domain to maintain traceability and provides powerful analysis mechanisms to generate the basis for better decisions.

  • Analysis
    Analyze model-based data or traceability across tools, domains and platforms.

Tools supported by Smartfacts

  • Modeling Tools

    • Cameo Systems Modeler, Dassault Systèmes

    • Enterprise Architect, Sparx Systems

    • Innovator, MID

    • Magic Cyber Systems Engineer, Dassault Systèmes

    • MagicDraw, Dassault Systèmes

    • Matlab Simulink, The Mathworks

    • PREEvision, Vector*

    • Rhapsody, IBM

  • Requirements Management Tools

    • Codebeamer, PTC

    • DOORS Next, IBM

    • DOORS Classic, IBM*

    • Jama Connect, Jama Software

    • Jira, Atlassian

  • Test Case Management Tools

    • Codebeamer, PTC

    • Jama Connect, Jama Software

    • ELM Engineering Test Management, IBM

  • Source Code Management

    • Eclipse

    • GIT / GIThub

    • Visual Studio Code

  • Collaboration Tools

    • AsciiDoc

    • Confluence, Atlassian

    • ELM Engineering Workflow Management, IBM

    • Jira, Atlassian

    • Sharepoint, Microsoft

  • Propietary Tools
    MID offers the genOSLC programming framework. genOSLC is a framework that encapsulates all relevant OSLC mechanisms and supports to make any authoring tool OSLC compatible with very little effort at minimal technical risk.

* = available by Q2 / 2023