Solutions

The Software Challenge

Are you facing these challenges because you do not have an accurate blueprint of your software system:

  • Do you find it difficult to respond to business requests because your lack of visibility of the software architecture keeps you from understanding the effort required to change the design?
  • Does your entire team, including suppliers, have the big picture view of your complex software application as you try to manage its development and meet critical deadlines?
  • Are you experiencing issues with the quality of your software because new problems arise as you attempt to address existing bugs or make changes?
  • Are you under pressure to keep track of frequent changes to your system to meet regulatory standards or quality initiatives (FDA, SEC, ISO, CMMI)
  • Are you unable to accommodate changes late in the release cycle because you cannot target the testing to the most affected parts of the application?

Architecture is critical to solving these problems, but there has been no effective framework to manage the software architecture. Current approaches are either too detailed or too difficult to maintain.

Introducing the Lattix Approach

New technology from Lattix now enables you to create an accurate blueprint of your software systems. Lattix has created a breakthrough approach that utilizes a Dependency Model to define, communicate, and control the intended architecture.

  • Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) provides a highly compact and scaleable representation of the entire system
  • Design Rules allow the formalization and enforcement of the interdependencies between subsystems, including external systems
  • Automatic extraction of dependencies allows the DSM to be created in minutes, while automated checking of Design Rules controls change effortlessly

Our approach can be applied at any point in the lifecycle of your projects: to proactively establish the architecture at the beginning, to coordinate change during ongoing development, and to facilitate testing and maintenance at the end of each release cycle.