January 2017

We'll be touring St. Louis (USA) during week 7 and 8. If you are interested in hearing from us, or want us to drop in with your company, please feel free to contact us. We'll be glad to give demonstrations, provide hands-on workshops, or simply talk software development or IT trends. We love our product, are proud of our customer centric approach, and are always on the lookout to have others benefit with us through cooperation.

..looking forward to the trip in just three weeks and hope to meet you there.

January 2017

For the TDWI Europe, we'll repeat our presentation "FCO-IM - Data Modeling by Example", as with the Data Modeling Zone 2016 in Berlin. In addition to talking about Fact Based Modeling, we'll also touch the subject of Data Vault and a possible transformation from CaseTalk. For more information please visit: TWDI Europe.

January 2017

CaseTalk Modeler 8.17 contains fourteen fixes and tweaks to enhance the user experience. If you have a copy you are eligable for a free update. Simply login to the website and download the appropriate edition. Changes affected various areas, such as:

• Exporting
• Diagramming
• Project Management

Read more on our Modeler changelog and the changes for the Manager 4.2.

December 2016

CaseTalk Modeler 8.16 contains a few enhancements and fixes:

• Portable App installations on a readonly fileshare supported;
• Import/merge support for diagrams added;
• Various diagram improvements which cleanup the presentations.

Read more on our full changelog.

November 2016

CaseTalk Modeler 8.15 continued it's support for model construction:

• Change Role PlayedBy more easily from the Diagram;
• Derive datatype from Label Type Property Dialog;
• Wizard to split Fact Type with one UC on N-1 Roles and more than 2 roles;
• Automatic administration of altered expressions during model constructing.

Read more about the new construction functions, or visit our full changelog documenting more tweaks and fixes. An update to the Viewer and Manager was made to support this new Modeler fileformats.

Oktober 2016

CaseTalk Modeler 8.14 continues to add new features. This is the short list of seven new additions:

• For resource monitoring users, we print the used memory in the statusbar.
• The export of the repository to XLS Spreadsheet is added.
• Export of your Custom Attributes is included now.
• Brand new support for Denodo Data Virtualization scripts.
• Extend your information model with custom annotation types.
• Easily transform a Rolefix to ObjectType (reverse function of the "Reduce Object Type").
• Quickly construct Label Types for future use in your model.

Read more about the new construction functions, or visit our full changelog documenting eight more tweaks and eight minor and major fixes.

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September 2016

CaseTalk Viewer v2.7 has improved it's support for documentation. It uses the annotation block to express the business meaning of the columns in the table, and also accompanies this with an example population.

The CaseTalk Modeler v8.13 now provides session support. When modeling during sprints in an agile project or scrum team, you incrementally adjust of expand your information model. Every time you now start a new session, you may specify the defaults for your custom attributes to keep track of this specific session scope. AND additionally you may now for the first time ever, reorder the roles in the expressions by opening up the expression edit dialog and drag the object types to the destination you desire. (watch demo)

This is how the Viewer can present table documentation according to the users specifications and verbalizations, including the examples as entered in the Modeler: