ODASE is a powerful platform that helps building agile and bug-free software.

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The Engine of the Digital Transformation
Zero Defects and Agile Software for the Digital Enterprise

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Why – Issues with Software
The hardest part of the software task is arriving
at a complete and consistent specification, and
much of the essence of building a program
is in fact the debugging of the specification
Fred Brooks (The Mythical Man-Month), No Silver Bullet

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How – Ontology-Centric Software
• Hundreds of definitions, not millions of LOC
• Executable specifications: testable, explainable
• 100% of Business Logic, zero defects
• W3C standards
Business ontology
Business and IT cleanly separated
Business and IT share a common language
Bugs don't enter, don't propagate :
• Business API generated automatically
• IT uses a definition of the Business
• IT writes 20 x less code to complete the software
• IT focuses on the quality of the implementation
IT programs
BusDev DevOps

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Benefits
Ontology
Lowest cost for change
Deeper understanding
Defects identifies very early
Programs
Hard to change
Defects identifies too late

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What – MCit ODASEODASE®®
ODASEODASE (Ontology Driven Architecture and Services Engineering) = MCit tools and platform
Business Ontology defining 100% of the Business Logic
• OWL for concepts, properties, axioms, instances
• RDF for data represented universally as triples (subject, predicate, object)
• Business Rules in extended SWRL (Semantic Web Rule Language)
• Declarative Workflows expressed in OWL and SWRL
ODASE WorkbenchODASE Workbench = Model checker (test, explanations, verification)
ODASE HedwigODASE Hedwig = Code generators for Java, C# (and future languages)
ODASE PlatformODASE Platform = All-in-One (reasoners, stores, workflow engines...)
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Customer's Statement
Lessons Learned
 Productivity, quality and flexibility radically enhanced
– Bug free: eliminate the errors at the source
– Incredibly agile
– Power of explainability and auditability
 Focused on the Business and only the Business
– Business – IT alignment
– Business and IT staff fully supportive
 Radically simplify our IT estate with low cost investments
– Pure business model
– Much less code

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Summary
 Separate the application complexity from the program itself
 Eliminate the errors at the source
– Today, much of the effort goes into testing and the repair of bugs
– Productivity, quality and flexibility radically enhanced
 Iterative extraction and refinement of the application requirements
– The client usually does not know upfront what he wants
– The client almost never thought of the problem in the details necessary for specification
 API automatically generated so that the ontology drives the application
– The Business Logic is something “real” – the ontology – expressed using standards
– Hand-written code is added to complete the implementation