Arthur Young (IES) Ltd now offers an entire computer-aided software engineering toolkit to automate systems development. In addition to an updated version of the analysis workstation, IEW/AWS, component of its Information Engineering Workbench, the London-based arm of the $2,000m-a-year firm of management consultants and accountants also has a planning workstation, IEW/PWS, and design workstation, IEW/DWS. […]
Arthur Young (IES) Ltd now offers an entire computer-aided software engineering toolkit to automate systems development. In addition to an updated version of the analysis workstation, IEW/AWS, component of its Information Engineering Workbench, the London-based arm of the $2,000m-a-year firm of management consultants and accountants also has a planning workstation, IEW/PWS, and design workstation, IEW/DWS. All three share an encyclopedia so an information strategy planner can carry data forward to the analysis and design phases when he has finished working on a previously recorded study. At the analysis stage Arthur Young says its latest toolkit provides enhanced text manipulation facilities as well as the ability to describe physical characteristics of data and to access the planning and design areas. Following further refinement the information moves on to the design workstation where the encyclopedia calls on its different design diagramming techniques. With the presentation diagrammer screens and reports can be set out using a mouse while structure charts deal with the interaction of modules and the sequence they appear in. Using these and other diagramming techniques the planner can build up a finished picture of the system he wants to create. The planning, analysis and design workstations that comprise the Information Engineering Workbench run on an MS-DOS machine with 640Kb and like to use the 4Mb expanded memory facility. Information Engineering Method, Yourdon, LSDM, CACI, SADM, Modus and Method 1 methodologies can be used. IEW was developed by Arthur Young in conjunction with KnowledgeWare Inc. A single copy of a workstation costs UKP5,450 going down to UKP32,500 per copy for multiple orders.
