The Innovator Platform: Business-Driven Software Engineering

The Aptero Solutions - Business-Driven Software Engineering Suite - powered by MID Innovator, is an integrated platform for the business engineering community, requirements analysts, IT teams and data architects to realize comprehensive IT projects quickly and efficiently.

  • Full support of open industry standards (BPMN, UML, MDA\MDD, SysML, SoaML, etc.)
  • Flexible customization using DSLs and user profiles
  • Central model server for the support of distributed teams
  • Open architecture and Java/.NET APIs

Business Driven-IT

Supporting three roles; Business Analysts, Software Architects and Database Architects, in one 'state of the art' interface;

  • Innovator for Business Analysts - Model business processes, requirements, task flows, business objects and use cases, through the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN 2.0) and Unified Modeling Language (UML 2.3).  
  • Innovator for Database Architects - Highly-flexible data modeling with the Information Management Metamodel (IMM), Entity-Relationship Model (ERM) and Structured Entity-Relationship Model (SERM).

New to Innovator 11 R4

  • Office Integration - Create, update and maintain requirements within Innovator models, entirely from Microsoft Word.
  • Innovator for Software Architects
  • Managing Modifications - Change Sets
  • Process Animation
  • Color and form options
  • Model validation
  • "Smart Icons" for showing additional information about model elements
  • Container versions in the server
  • Integration of model comparisons and merge tools in the Innovator GUI
  • Context-sensitive online help
  • Extension of user management system: Model administration
  • Extended rights system: Filtering of contents depending on access rights
  • Improved performance and usability