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Workshop Kadviser allows the development of business applications based on knowledge.

It is a tool KBE (Knowledge Based Engineering) for assistance in the design (CAD) of products manufactured. The business applications are then designed using the know-how and best practices of the company and not the reverse.

The computer becomes a means to an end for improved engineering, seek solutions and ensure quality.

Features intrinsic Kadviser

Kadviser the following features:

• Structuring data object,
• Specific languages for easy maintenance (CDL for data structures, RDL for business rules, GDL for the geometrical construction, ...),
• Declarative languages to specify needs and constraints (ease of modification)
• Domains of values to assist the user in his capture and avoid unnecessary iterations,
• Logical rules and mathematical equations,
• Reasoning reversible logic and mathematical relationships to provide the opportunity to explore different scenarios at any time of conception,
  
• Independence of applications towards the operating system for file-based texts
• Remote access to a business application stored on a server (Intranet) or a website (internet) for centralized management and deployment easier

Key features of the Workshop Kadviser Professional Edition

The workshop Kadviser provides a graphical integrated development of business applications with:

• Text editor with syntax color of application files, line number, drag and drop search words
• Graphic editor to construct GUI with graphic elements such as a video player or web browser integrated to achieve dialogs rich and interactive modification of windows and menus of the application,
• Wizard of applications allowing the automatic generation of business applications from simple business rules,
• Navigation tree and search engine in the structure of the application,
• Debugger applications with activation trace of reasoning,
• Console commands for direct control of the system of reasoning and linkages,
• Configuration Manager development environment and application interface (layout, Themes and Skin)
• the generation of the runtime and application format "Package" (KVP: Kadviser application package) to the only operating a business application and its knowledge base,
• collaborative management of a business application developments with contributing experts located at remote sites (system based on technology Subversion SVN)
• the development of plugins C + + with Microsoft Visual Studio and the SDK (Software Development Kit) Kadviser,
• the course of business constraints graph of the knowledge base of an application and access to relevant rules (MODELVIEW)
  
• The addition of dynamic business rules and deactivations allowing test during a session the influence of business constraints

Main features of applications based on Kadviser Professional Edition

Kadviser brings to applications, in addition to its own features, the following components:

• Playing a business application format KVS (backup archive)
• Reading a business application runtime and KVP format (runtime package)
• Export business application in a format archive (KVS: Backup Kadviser application) for exchange and modify without restriction of knowledge bases between users and experts
• Dynamic generation of interfaces Human-Machine and diagrams also configured with graphic elements such as a video player and an integrated Web browser , ,
• Generating Word documents such as quotations with schema integration parameterized
• Exchange of data and triggering macros in Microsoft Excel and triggering macros
• Querying and backup database elements of the company,
• A control interface for business processes
• Sending and retrieving parameters in the modeler Catia V5 from Dassault Systems for the update models parameterized (license Geometric Coupling)
• Triggering macro Catscript Catia v5 (License Geometric Coupling)
• Retrieving coordinates of a point in Catia V5 from Dassault Systèmes (License Geometric Coupling)
• Generations of native 3D models from the modeler of 3DShop Xpert C4W (License Geometric Coupling)
• Generating 3D models OpenCascade with backup format STEP
• Loading plugins Kadviser made by API in C + + (Application Programming Interface) and to develop treatments for a very thorough procedural business application
• Possibility of further integration of a business application within an existing system through ActiveX Kadviser

The Advanced Progamming

The workshop Kadviser offers different programming interfaces for more advanced developments in:

• TCL / TK: Language well known for its simplicity of design interfaces of dynamic human / machine complex equivalent of Visual Basic, but being multi-platform
• C + +: For the integration of computer codes, interoperability with third-party tools or the development of specific therapies.

The use of fixed license

Workshop Kadviser licensed fixed can install and use Kadviser on one station.

Technical requirements

This product Kadviser runs:

• Microsoft Windows 98 ,
• Microsoft Windows 2000 ,
• Microsoft Windows XP, 
• Microsoft Windows Vista,
• Microsoft Windows 7
  

The coupling of desktop interfaces with Kadviser:

• Microsoft Office 97 ,
• Microsoft Office 2000 ,
• Microsoft Office XP ,
• Microsoft Office 2003 , 
• Microsoft Office 2007

The lineup of "plugins" C + + for Kadviser requires (in which case only) the compiler Microsoft Visual Studio C + + version 6 minimum.