The acclaimed Cradle-6.4 is a complete Requirements Management and Systems Engineering tool.

Cradle is a fully
customisable, extensible package that can assist you in maximising control, efficiency, traceability, security, usability
and durability of your projects to help you to deliver your projects to a successful outcome to budget and on time.

Feel the satisfaction of knowing that from the initial requirements capture and the registration of the very first source
document through all your definable stages of the project through analysis, design, testing, implementation, post
implementation development and support through to final disposal, Cradle delivers consistently, efficiently and
effectively.

When you buy Cradle, comprising the Workbench, Project Manager, Document Loader, Document Publisher, Web
Access and Microsoft toolsuite tools, you are buying a successful outcome. You are buying saved time, saved
money, you are buying a proven tool, you are buying proven delivery and proven results. Imagine bringing your
projects to a successful conclusion, to time and to budget. How much could that be worth to your reputation, your
career, your bonus?

Whether your business is related to space exploration, automotive engineering, shipbuilding, strategic defence
systems, rail, aero-systems or any other large scale Systems Engineering, Cradle delivers, from concept to creation.

El aclamado cuna-6.4 es una completa herramienta de administración de requisitos y de ingeniería de sistemas.

Cuna es un paquete completamente personalizable, extensible que puede ayudarle a maximizar control, eficiencia,
trazabilidad, seguridad, usabilidad y durabilidad de sus proyectos para ayudarle en sus proyectos a un resultado
exitoso al presupuesto y a tiempo.

Sentir la satisfacción de saber que, desde la captura de requisitos iniciales y el registro del primer documento de
origen en todas sus etapas definibles del proyecto a través de análisis, diseño, pruebas, implementación, registrar
desarrollo de aplicación y el apoyo a través de a disposición final Cuna ofrece constantemente, con eficiencia y
eficacia.

Cuando usted compra cuna, integrado por la mesa de trabajo, jefe de proyecto, cargador de documento, documento
Publisher, acceso Web y herramientas de toolsuite de Microsoft, están comprando un resultado exitoso. Usted está
comprando ahorrado tiempo, ahorrado dinero, va a comprar una herramienta probada, que está comprando entrega
comprobada y resultados probados. Imaginar que sus proyectos con éxito, a tiempo y presupuesto. ¿Cuánto podría
valer a su reputación, su carrera, su bono?

Si su empresa está relacionada con la exploración espacial, ingeniería automotriz, construcción naval, sistemas de
defensa estratégica, ferrocarril, aero-sistemas o cualquier otra gran escala de ingeniería de sistemas, cuna ofrece,
desde el concepto a la creación.
Overview:

Cradle comprises several interfaces or modules. These include:

Cradle Project Manager

Feel the confidence which comes from knowing that your projects are managed properly and the data is
safe.

Project Manager may be used as the entry point to Cradle tools and projects. Project Manager allows a
project hierarchy to be defined for each Cradle system that has some or all of the projects defined in the
project register of that system, grouped into any tree structure that is meaningful to end users. This is
where you create, delete, start and stop Cradle projects.

Cradle Document Loader

Relish the simplicity of pointing Document Loader at your source documents and sit back and watch as it
effortlessly reads your data into Cradle and have that data categorised, numbered as individual items of a
user defined type and securely registered and positioned ready for full traceability.
Document Loader is a Requirements Capture tool and forms part of the Cradle Toolsuite for Microsoft
Office®. Document Loader offers a complete solution for capturing information held in Microsoft Word
documents into your Cradle Project Database (PDB).

A typical source document may contain requirements, project-specific items or specifications grouped as
paragraph hierarchies. Document Loader reads or parses each paragraph and creates a hierarchy of items in
the database. Cross references are created between levels in this structure. Body text, figures and tables
are captured into frames of these items.

Cradle WorkBench

You can enjoy the convenience of accessing all the information you need in one tool in one interface in one
location. Be assured that this gives you maximum control over your project.
WorkBench is suitable for a wide variety of types of user, and can be used for a wide variety of tasks within
Requirements Management and Systems Engineering processes.

WorkBench is a customisable tool which can be used for both browsing and manipulating Cradle Databases.
WorkBench is fully integrated with all desktop tools, including Word, to view any type of data in database
items’ frames. Audio, video, figures, documents and tables embedded in database items can be accessed
from WorkBench forms or table cells, launching applications as necessary.

WorkBench allows tailored views of the Cradle Database to be created for different groups of project
engineers and external stakeholders. It is for groups who benefit from a tailored environment. It can provide
a view of just what they want to see and how they want to see it.

WorkBench can become a portal into all project data, showing the project as one or more tables whose cells
link to any type of data.

Cradle Spellchecker

Professional appearance in your data and the documents produced there from, unspoield by spelling errors*.
The Spellchecker can be launched as a standalone application or can be started from WorkBench.
However started, Spellchecker checks the spelling of a collection of items. The items to be checked are
those found by running a query, either the current query (when it is started from WorkBench) or a query
chosen by the user (when started standalone). These items are shown in the Spellchecker UI, where you
can select or de-select items to further refine which items are checked.

*unspoield is deliberate and proves the value of this tool.

Cradle Plug-ins

Cradle provides plug-in modules for Microsoft Word and Excel. These are loaded when Cradle is installed on
PCs that have Word or Excel 2003, 2007 or XP already installed on them:
The plug-ins provide facilities to capture data from documents and spreadsheets into items in the database.
You can capture:

 All selected paragraphs into a single item

 Each selected paragraph into a separate item
 Each table row into a separate item
 Each spreadsheet row into a separate item

Cradle Web Access

You can enjoy the flexibility of being able to access and interact with your Cradle data from anywhere on
earth via a secure web front-end.
Web Access (Cradle WEB-A module) allows users access to Cradle Databases by directing their web
browsers to a Cradle Web Server (CWS). This allows the user to gain access from anywhere on the LAN,
WAN or across the Internet. Such users do not need any Cradle software installed and there is no
installation of a Cradle-specific web browser plug-in required.

The tool provided to web users is really the contents of web pages displayed in their browsers. These pages
are created by the CWS from:

 A set of HTML templates, at least one for each type of item in the database

 A set of page designs supplied with the CWS

 The items in your database

The CWS dynamically creates a web interface containing data drawn from the user’s project database. The
web interface provides facilities that allow web users to interact with this database information, to query it,
view or edit it, and navigate from it. Exactly what facilities are provided to the user are determined solely by
the contents of the HTML templates used to define the form and content of this web interface.

The user has full control of the contents of these HTML templates, e.g.:

 What the web interface looks like

 What facilities it provides

 How these facilities are accessed

Cradle Document Publisher

Cradle offers an approach to automated report writing and document generation, capturing data from the
Cradle Systems Engineering technical database without the design and layout of cumbersome publication
templates, graphical editors or the writing of complex scripting languages. This approach is called the
Document Publisher.
The Cradle Document Publisher allows you to use Microsoft Word® to construct arbitrarily large and complex
documents from datasets in a Cradle Project Database (PDB). Word documents or reports are user-defined
through Word documents constructed with tags or bookmarks that are keyed to access database information
and define the layout/format of the information in the output document. These documents are regular doc
files but are referred to as templates.

Documents can contain embedded text, tables and diagrams. Cross referenced information at any level of
complexity can be accessed and reported in the output document. Filtering of data is provided to access
information relative to specific conditions when publishing and to control the level or type of data published.

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Cradle Dashboard

Cradle-6.4 provides a new Cradle counter module licence which has been included in the Cradle-6.4 release,
Cradle-DASH. A Cradle-DASH licence is used when a dashboard-related UI control is opened in any Cradle
component (e.g. the Dashboard sidebar). It is released when the UI control is closed.

It is common for managers to manage by exception. That is managers devote their time to solving problems
or ensuring that resources are deployed to solve problems. As such, the primary need for information is to
know whether all aspects of a project are progressing well, whether there are aspects of the project which
are of concern, and whether there are serious problems to be addressed.

It is common to use the term Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the aspects of the projects that are
being monitored. Examples of KPIs are:

 Undisputed requirements: where a value of zero is good.

 Completion of software requirements: where a value of zero is good (expressed as the number of
requirements that do not have a status of complete)
 Unlinked architecture components: where a value of zero is good
 Completion of software modules: where 100% is good (expressed as the total of level of effort
values for all software modules)

This allows managers to manage by exception, so that they can quickly assess the state of the project
through the colours shown for the KPIs. If everything is green, they can move on to the next phase or
project. Areas that are red should be investigated. Investigation only requires a click of a mouse on the
coloured box to open that KPI and see what caused it to be red.

The Dashboard feature is available and is the default view in the sidebar:

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Cradle Gateway

Cradle Gateway is a requirements traceability solution that links your development and verification
documents with formal requirements stored in documents and databases.

Cradle Gateway allows you to configure which specification and working documents to process, the type of
traceability information to obtain from each type of document, and the traceability relationship between
these documents. Cradle Gateway performs the coverage and impact analysis, graphically displays
relationships between documents and generates reports. Cradle Gateway improves the impact analysis
throughout a project lifecycle and the quality by managing requirements traceability.
Cradle Gateway includes the following features:

 Manage project documents and graphically create traceability relationships between documents
 Customize types for importing various types of data from third party products
 Use graphical, coverage analysis, and impact analysis views to visualize and analyze traceability
relationships between documents
 Create filters to customize analysis and displays
 Capture and compare project snapshots to determine changes in requirements and coverage
 Generate reports using default and custom templates