From concept to creation
Noteworthy news articles about Structured Software Systems Limited (3SL) , Cradle, or related customer / industry stories.
INCOSE host the premier conference of systems engineering and related disciplines in Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA). If you would like to find out more about Cradle come and say “Hello” or “Guten Morgen / Guten Tag” to us at booth 20.
This year’s conference is at the Mercure Hotel, Stephanstraße, Berlin.
Follow INCOSE @incose_org on Twitter or talk about it with #emeasec
SaaS not SaaS, a rather confusing statement when you look at the use of acronyms. We can assure you that Cradle Software As A Service is what we mean. However, we’ve had a bit of fun looking at some of the other meanings.
Shared or dedicated servers and not the lifesaving work of South Australian Ambulance Service.
SaaS not South Australian Ambulance Service
The full Cradle experience and not the promotion of science in agriculture offered by the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists
Cradle SaaS from Barrow but not to be confused with the historic Barrow-in-Furness product – Marsh’s Sass
There’s a Cradle SaaS collection suitable for you, but if you’ve got a yawny #FridayFeeling, then maybe you need to look at the work of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service instead.
Whilst today Jan 30th 2019 we’ve seen the first heavy snow flakes in Barrow, we can assure you there snow time like the present to get Cradle Software as a Service not Snow and a Shovel
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Our Requirements Management and Systems Engineering software is available in a number of S a a S flavours. For information of the subscription products see Subscriptions on the Products menu.
Today is National Poetry Day 2018 (#NationalPoetryDay) and 3SL have entered a poetry competition! Our poem below…
Think you can write a flash poem of up to 20 words? Why not enter yourself!
You could win a £100 personalised National Book Token featuring your poem.
This is available for download from the 3SL website. This has some handy new features and fixes. Which are in place to improve your overall Cradle experience .
Cradle-7.4.1 is the latest patch release for Cradle-7.4, so is completely compatible with your 7.4 security code. Users with 7.4 do not need a new code and can download and install without charge. Users on older versions of Cradle, with maintenance, can move to this version at any time by requesting a new code from 3SL support.
Some of the new features in this release are:
Details on the new symbols are below;
Fixes:
To download the latest release please visit our website at www.threesl.com and login. Once you have logged in navigate to the Resources section to download this release.
Full details of the fixes in this release are in the Cradle help.
It’s Roald Dahl Day today 13/9/2018. A day to celebrate one of the best story tellers and writers of modern times with around 250 million books sold worldwide.
Stories tell a tale, something we can envisage and understand. They usually have a beginning introducing us to the situation, the main body describing the tale and an ending. (Whether a cliff hanger or tidy conclusion)
In business we often describe a process as a story. Sometimes formally (BPMN), or sometimes as a descriptive user story. This tells how the item, customer, (character or actor) interacts with their surroundings.
Often, as in the case with Dahl, the stories are further enhanced by pictures (often Blake) which bring the situation to life. Diagrams can be used to model your user stories and processes to encapsulate the current focus in that chapter of the system.
Whether you’re dreaming of revenge as George sought, cunfuddled as a Twit. If you are wishing you could jump into a chocolate stream with Charlie, or being spooked by the macabre story of ‘skin’, remember stories are good for all. Children, adults (including business managers and engineers) all benefit from a story, whether for relaxation, or to help explain the complex. Go find a copy of a Roald Dahl and keep reading.
We’re all excited here in Barrow-in-Furness as the Tour of Britain bike race starts here today.
We’ve got a great view from 3SL towers and will add a couple of pictures throughout the day.
Look for the TV/social media coverage. If you spot a 3SL logo in Barrow-in-Furness, follow us and send a tweet to @threesl with #Cradle and #TourofBritain telling us where the 3SL logo is physically displayed and win an SE Pro worth £399* (first 50 correct tweets).
* Price valid as 07/09/2018.
Continue reading “Tour of Britain 2018 – Cradle Competition Day”
3SL are would like to announce our latest product. The Cradle Subscriptions option is a SaaS (Software as a Service) product that that provides access to 3SL’s requirements management and systems engineering tool Cradle using remote servers. There will be no need to install software on your own company systems.
Cradle Enterprise offers huge flexibility in terms of the modules you can choose to licence and how many of each concurrent user you’ll need. This provides ultimate flexibility. In order to provide a hosted service and keep administration simple, Cradle ‘SaaS’ will be offered in four ‘flavours’ similar to the versions available as single user products. We offer the most popular licences in collection at a set ratio depending on the number of users.
So whether you are collating requirements, designing a system model, running a dashboard or publishing a document, there’s a SaaS collection form you.
| Cradle Licences Collection | Enterprise-RM Basic | Enterprise-RM Pro | Enterprise-SE Basic | Enterprise-SE Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Functions | Requirements elicitation and processing. | Requirements elicitation and processing with project management functions and publishing | Requirements and System modelling. | Requirements and System modelling, project management functions and publishing |
For smaller projects, at a really keen price, you can pick a shared server hosted by 3SL with a shared database backend. This is ideal to get you up and running or to give you an easy way to test the benefits of an enterprise level system. This would be a great way of quickly scaling from a single user system to an enterprise arrangement as more people onboard to you project.
For larger corporate users wanting a little more control and no shared resource, Cradle is available on a cloud server. There will be a dedicated CDS (Cradle Database Server) just for your projects. This will provide you with the full power of an enterprise system without you needing your own IT hardware or managers.
Cradle SaaS can be packaged into simple fixed term durations. These will be available from one month to sixty months. This will allow customers to budget and ensure cover for a whole host of projects. You’ll be free to finish or renew as your project needs at the end of a term.
02/10/2018 – Release of SaaS
Celebrating Yorkshire Day on 1st August 2018
Eyup! Today, at 3SL in Cumbria, we are celebrating another great UK county, our neighbours in Yorkshire.
What better way to celebrate, than with a great cup of Yorkshire tea? We all know engineers from builders to space scientists alike need a good brew to function!
From concept to creation, you can see there are steps to follow when making a good cup of tea, just as there are steps involved for anything we create. From the initial requirements to the final product it’s always best to follow a method, ensure traceability and record the details. The result will be a good quality product with repeatability, easy change management and success all round. “Cheers”
So, if you’re thinking of fugglin with a shortcut in your next project, don’t be a claht’ead, use a bit of gumption and choose the right tools and methods for the job. Cradle just makes it easier!
View the Citrix Ready Marketplace for details of Cradle and its compatibility on Citrix systems. Our page is accessible here citrixready.citrix.com/structured-software-systems-ltd/cradle.html
The latest version of Cradle listed is 7.4.
The UK government Digital Market Place Cloud Software applications offer a wide range of software aimed at fulfilment of central and regional government contracts, government agencies’ work and local authority use. This ranges from accounting to transport, healthcare to sales. We are pleased to announce that Cradle is available as SaaS through G-Cloud 11 for agile and phase-based projects under the Information and communications technology (ICT) services.
We are offering a range of packaged SaaS services that include Cradle licences, a pre-defined schema and intensive support from 3SL for both unclassified (IL0) and OFFICIAL (certified IL3) deployments:
Prices start from as little as £20 per user per month. Including Email, webchat and phone support and full documentation included. Optional onsite support and training available. This can be supplied on Windows® or Linux®.
A wide range of user customisation is available including:
For details, see here:
For a short summary of Cradle, see our video here: We’re sure you’ll find our services useful to completing successful projects. We look forward to working with you!