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Rational Rose is an object-oriented Unified Modeling Language (UML) software design tool intended for visual modeling and component construction of enterprise-level software applications. In much the same way a theatrical director blocks out a play, a software designer uses Rational Rose to visually create (model) the framework for an application by blocking out classes with [...]

Cognos is one of the world’s largest makers of business intelligence software, enabling users to extract corporate data, analyze it, and then assemble reports. Cognos offers dozens of products, but it may be best known for its PowerPlay online analytical processing (OLAP) tool, its Impromptu report and query language, and its Axiant client/server development system. [...]