New Modeling Tools Narrow The Developer-Business User Gap; Borland and Compuware upgrade the software-modeling capabilities of their Java toolsets.

InformationWeek, June, 2005

As software modeling becomes more sophisticated, the gap between the software business users want and the code that gets delivered is getting narrower. Borland Software Corp.'s Together 2006 modeling tools have been upgraded to include the ability to model business processes. The Together toolset supports Business Process Modeling Notation, a standard graphical means of expressing business processes.

By using BPMN, a business analyst can model a business process and the model may be carried forward into the system design and software model of the application, says Marc Brown, ...