RDD Products

RDD-100 Family                   1.8 mb
RDD.COM Family             675 kb

Our technology combines our leading-edge object-oriented software, our application-specific consulting teams and our proven process for working with the complexity of systems, with our openness to partnering with others to help create the best solutions for our customers. Our sophisticated and mature RDD.COM® enables collaborating teams to harness the power of modern information technology so that they can plan and re-engineer their processes, and make changes that improve their efficiency and lower costs. Using this modern technology, teams can manage information throughout the lifecycle, from user needs identification to implementation through the operations phase. .

Holagent's RDD.COM product family provides rigorous management and change control that allows agile collaborating teams control of the risk associates with "requirements creep" or degradation of user needs throughout the lifecycle. This insures that teams can provide solutions that are timely, cost effective, and optimize the expectations of all stakeholders.

Framework For More Efficient Design

For more than a decade, RDD-100 technology has been proven to be effective in streamlining system design processes. In the past, the primary users of the this technology were the aerospace, defense, and telecommunications industries.

Today, all industries recognize the need to manage user expectations and control requirement changes. The need to develop new systems or upgrade and modify legacy systems to meet evolving user requirements is common to all of our customers. Today RDD.COM plays a central role in helping teams meet their business objectives and mission needs. RDD.COM can be used for complex hardware and information systems design and re-engineering. It also provides collaborating teams with the ability to engineer and manage requirements with integrated static and dynamic behavior models. RDD.COM's integrated and internally consistent set of data allows a team to quickly and rigorously specify system capabilities and represent them by concise and precise language that accurately reflects the operational characteristics desired by the user.

back

Using RDD.COM throughout the lifecycle, a team can capture, record, and report progress on the development of the requirements. The status of the requirements, assumptions, analyses, issues, decisions, and risk assessments associated with a requirement can be ascertained.

To "engineer requirements" teams need to be able to understand the user's needs, and the effect and impact of subtle changes on the operational system. In order to understand these impacts and make rational, risk-reducing decisions, a team needs to model the behavior and manage the requirement changes as well as the control the equipment configuration throughout the entire lifecycle. The active integration with behavior models and the discrete event simulation capabilities enable a collaborating team to perform early technical defect analysis. Early detection and resolution of logical and performance errors can help a team reduce risk, avoid the high cost of late detection and removal of defects.

RDD.COM provides engineers with a repository in which data and model baselines can be stored, accessed, and compared throughout the lifecycle. Using these baselines, users can:

• Capture source requirements
• Elicit requirements and use models to clarify expectations
• Establish feasibility of alternatives based on resource and cost constraints
• Rigorously define and engineer requirements
• Analyze effects of system failures
• Define and design the behavior of system interfaces
• Refine behavior into discrete processes allocate behavior to architectural alternatives
• Compare and contrast model and data baselines throughout the entire lifecycle
• Re-use sets of engineering data and models
• Refine engineering design with increasing levels of detail
• Support process-specific engineering environment through an open Public API

back

more