Nicola & Synon Obsydian
My experience with Obsydian
Obsydian = COOL:Plex = Advantage Plex = All Fusion Plex
Synon/2E = COOL:2E = Advantage 2E = All Fusion 2E
Case Tools for Application Development
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Hi, I am
Nicola Zordan. www.NicolaZordan.com
I am a consultant with over 15 years experience in the IT industry
and I worked with Obsydian since it was first released in 1995
as a mentor, speaker and project leader.
In 1997 I moved to the USA to work wit Axis to start up and
leade the Obsydian team.
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I worked for 2 years, with a Synon tool, Synon/2E,
in a big project at Marzotto Italy, the tool is a CASE tool for the IBM AS/400 platform,
and I was Database administrator for the downsizing from a IBM mainframe.
In 1995 for an elapsed of 2 years, I worked for Synon Italy
and since the beginning I was involved with Obsydian,
that was the reason why I
went to Synon.
In Synon Italy, I followed all the activities on Obsydian since
the beginning like:
- Training courses for clients (Base, Advanced, ...)
- Project leading
- Public Presentations
- Private presentation (Pre sale activities)
- Project tuning specifically for Obsydian
- I am a Certified COOL:Plex developer (17 April 1999)
So while I was at Synon Italy I manged the new tool and followed
the client, build and teach
on courses on the tool and on the Object Engineering methodology
that Synon adopted.
In 1997 I got the opportunity with Axis
to move and work in the USA, in San Francisco.
So now I am here at the Midrange Division
driving and managing Obsydian projects for
Axis Consulting International
that ia a cosulting company.
I am enjoiing the States and having a good international experience,
that was what I wanted.
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Projects

These are some projects I worked in:
With Synon CASE tools (Obsydian & Synon/2E)
- Clothings production systems
- Accounting
- Taxes, providing data to government
- Machinery maintenance control
- Public services billing
- Guest check in/out
- Car import export
- Wine production system
- Health insurance systems
- Tax Payment
- Electronic Data Transfer
- Scheduling, Calendars
- Financial
- Insurance
Without case tools
- Leasing billings
- Bankrupt creditors liquidation
- CAD - CAM
- Automatic distribution systems
- Process control systems
- Production planning systems
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I have presented Obsydian in:
- Managing Projects with Obsydian, Sterling World Wide Customer Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, 19-21 April 1999
- Obsydian a CASE development tool, University of Udine department of Computer Science, Italy, March 1998
- Obsydian presentation tour, Florence, 23 December 1996
- Obsydian: Multiplatform Object Oriented CASE, SMAU exibition, Milan, 22 November 1996
- The future of Obsydian, Synon Italian user conference, Milan, 14 November 1997
- Obsydian presentation tour, Bologne, 10 October 1996
- Obsydian presentation tour, Florence, 9 October 1996
- Obsydian presentation tour, 8 October 1996
- ... many others before, and demos to industries
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Obsydian
Obsydian is an Integrated
Object Oriented CASE tool by Synon
that allow developing client/server application for multiplatform.
It allow to define the structure of the database (that is a relational
database) and use the object orientation to define the logic of the
application.
It allow to define all the application independently from the
deploy platform.
Actually the platforms available are:
- MS Windows 16 bit
- MS Windows 32 bit
- IBM AS/400 client/server or standalone (green screens)
- MS Windows NT
- Unix HP-Ux database Oracle as server
- Java, alpha test
Any mix of these platform can be used to generate
a distributed application and even a distrinuted database.
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ObsydiaNik
list of Obsydian and Synon/2E users on the Net
and Obsydian and Synon/2E Knowledge Quiz
FAQ, and more ...

http://ObsydiaNik.Zordan.net
http://www.mclink.it/personal/MC2074/Synon
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