Welcome to the November 2022 newsletter from 3SL!
This newsletter contains a mixture of news and technical information about us, and our requirements management and systems engineering tool “Cradle”. We would especially like to welcome everyone who has purchased Cradle in the past month and those who are currently evaluating Cradle for their projects and processes.
We hope that 3SL and Cradle can deliver real and measurable benefits that help you to improve the information flow within, the quality and timeliness of, and the traceability, compliance and governance for, all of your current and future projects.
If you have any problems in your use of Cradle, please do not hesitate to contact 3SL Support here.
Artemis I
Cradle has been an integral part of the Constellation and Artemis programmes for many years, being central to the toolchains in both government and in industry.
We would like to extend our congratulations to NASA’s Exploration Systems Development mission directorate for the successful launch of Artemis I.
Follow the progress of the Artemis I mission through NASA.
32-Bit vs 64-Bit
For our next major release – Cradle-8.0 – we propose to remove support for:
- 32-bit Windows
- 32-bit Microsoft Office
- 32-bit Linux
We would like to know if this would have adverse effects for any of our current customers and any potential customers. If you believe that removing 32-bit support from Cradle would affect you or your company, then please send your views and opinions to 3SL Support here.
Cradle-8.0 will not be released until mid 2023 at the earliest.
New User Training Course
We have a new training course available: Cradle User Course. This course is ideal for:
- Anyone who is new to Cradle and needs an overview
- Anyone who is joining a team that has been using Cradle for some time
- Anyone who has not used Cradle for some time and needs to update their skills
For further details, please see here.
New Configuration Management Training Course
We have a new training course available: Configuration and Change Management. This course is ideal for anyone:
- Who needs to apply specific workflows to the information in your Cradle databases, or
- Who needs to introduce formal reviews and approvals into a Cradle-based project, or
- Who needs to understand and use Cradle’s baseline mechanism, or
- Who needs to apply configuration management, configuration control and formal change to a Cradle project
The course includes:
- Discussions in Cradle
- Change histories in Cradle
- Configuration Management in Cradle, including baselines, workflows, simple reviews, team reviews, formal change, audit trail and how to advance information to the next stage within their lifecycle
For further details, please see here.
G-Cloud 13
The UK government provides the G-Cloud procurement framework for its departments and agencies. G-Cloud 13 is the latest instance of that framework, agreement number RM1557.13, and is available between 9th November 2022 and 8th November 2023.
G-Cloud used to be delivered through the Digital Marketplace. In its latest form, G-Cloud is being delivered through the Public Procurement Gateway (PPG) managed by the Crown Commercial Services (CCS). You can find G-Cloud 13 in the PPG here.
3SL is pleased to announce that we have been accepted into G-Cloud 13,
and that Cradle is available as a variety of SaaS services through Lot 2 in this framework, and a range of training and consultancy services are available through Lot 3.
Cradle SaaS Services
A wide range of SaaS services are available through G-Cloud 13 Lot 2. For a summary of this Lot, please see here.
Each service includes Cradle licences, a user-configurable schema, and a comprehensive support package. The SaaS can be delivered for both UNCLASSIFIED (IL0) and OFFICIAL (certified IL3) deployments. The services are:
- Agile Collaboration
- Agile Software Development
- Agile Software Management
- Application Lifecycle Development
- Application Lifecycle Management
- Business Analysis
- Business Process Modelling
- Defect Tracking
- Enterprise Architecture
- Integrated Risk Management
- Integrated Test Management
- Lifecycle Management
- MBE Model Based Engineering
- MBSE Model Based Software Engineering
- MBSE Model Based Systems Engineering
- Requirements and Testing
- Requirements Engineering
- Requirements Management
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Compliance
- Risk Management
- SysML Modelling
- Systems Engineering
- Test Execution
- Test Management
- Test Planning
- UML Modelling
The PPG infrastructure is still in development. CCS have advised that direct links to individual services in the G-Cloud Lots will be available at the end of this year. 3SL will post an update when such links become available.
In the meantime, please contact 3SL here to discuss acquiring a Cradle SaaS through G-Cloud.
Cradle Training/Consultancy
A range of configurable services are available to support a Cradle deployment through G-Cloud 13 Lot 3. For a summary of this Lot, please see here.
These services are:
- Consultancy
- Administration Training
- Fundamentals Training
- Advanced Lifecycle Training
The PPG infrastructure is still in development. CCS have advised that direct links to individual services in the G-Cloud Lots will be available at the end of this year. 3SL will post an update when such links become available.
In the meantime, please contact 3SL here to discuss Cradle training and consultancy services through G-Cloud.
Social Media
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Thank You
3SL would also like to thank all of our customers, evaluators and potential customers who have found the time to send feedback on our services, such as evaluations, training courses, Cradle support and so on.
We understand how busy you are.
Your responses are essentialto help us both monitor and seek to improve the services we provide to you.
Thank you!
