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News Release from: Artisan Software Tools
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 January 2006
Helicopter maker adopts UML development
tool
Helicopter maker AgustaWestland has selected Artisan Studio as its corporate standard UML tool for software and systems development.
AgustaWestland, a leading worldwide group excelling in the design and manufacture of advanced technology helicopters for both civil and military applications, with major operations in Italy, the UK and USA, has selected Artisan Studio as its corporate standard UML tool for software and systems development AgustaWestland companies worldwide will benefit from this corporate decision
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We are very impressed with Artisan Studio's feature-set", said Dr Ferdinando Battini, who is responsible for software practice at AgustaWestland.
"We looked thoroughly at tools from several vendors but were immediately struck by Artisan Studio's ease of use and Ada code reversing capabilities".
"We have had distinct problems in the past reversing code that was written without a model".
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"The reverser in Artisan Studio is the best we have evaluated".
"We are also extremely pleased with the automatic code synchroniser, which enables us to keep our UML models and Ada source code synchronised all the time".
AgustaWestland is part of Finmeccanica, one of the largest investors in R and D in Italy, the UK and the USA, spending over 12% of its revenues.
Investing in research has enabled Finmeccanica to accumulate substantial technological knowhow, especially in the aerospace and defence sectors.
As a result of this and its highly focused strategy of international positioning and development, Finmeccanica plays key roles in every main programme and project in the strategic aerospace and defence sector, contributing its own exclusive design, development and production competence.
Jeremy Goulding, President and CEO of Artisan commented: "We are extremely pleased that Artisan Studio was selected by AgustaWestland as the systems and software engineering modelling tool of choice".
"Artisan Studio's scalability and multi-user repository combined with its open architecture and extensibility enables project development teams to be easily integrated regardless of their size or location".
"AgustaWestland has successfully exploited the extensibility capabilities of Artisan Studio to create its own add-in tools as well as to customise our code generators to meet specific project requirements and further enhance productivity".
"This flexibility is essential for organisations as process and project requirements inevitably change in response to business, technology and customer demands".
Increasing internationalisation is a key feature of the AgustaWestland's business strategy.
It succeeds in some of the world's most difficult markets, defeating formidable competitors.
The US Coast Guard uses AgustaWestland A109 Power helicopters and has chosen the AB139 for its Deepwater programme.
Phoenix Police Air Support Unit selected the new high performance single engine A119 Koala helicopter, just a few months after the delivery of their first multi-role twin engine A109 Power helicopter.
The US President will soon fly in the US-101 helicopter variant developed specifically for the American market in a joint venture with Lockheed Martin.
"We are very proud that AgustaWestland chose Artisan Italy as a partner and Artisan Studio as the UML system and software corporate tool of choice", concluded Carmelo Tommasi, Managing Director of Artisan Software Tools SRL.
"Agusta in Italy and Westland in UK were the first Finmeccanica companies to adopt Artisan Studio".
"We are also extremely pleased that this decision will soon be extended to the Finmeccanica corporate level and all the Finmeccanica companies worldwide will be using Artisan Studio to design mission-critical systems and software".
"AgustaWestland and other Finmeccanica companies are an important part of the avionics and defence electronics backbone in Europe and this corporate agreement will confirm Artisan's leadership in this strategic industry sector".
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