Cicero XM Studio
A Shared Design and Development Experience
Cicero XM Studio is a visual development environment that comes with all three Cicero XM Products. It is used to integrate, design, automate and present information across applications. Cicero XM Studio allows business analysts and IT to make changes to end user scripts, call flows, and composite screens without risk to underlying applications or business logic. Cicero XM Studio features include the following:
Visual Studio Plug-in
Cicero XM Studio uses the familiar Microsoft Visual Studio development environment.
United Data Model™ Designer
The United Data Model (UDM) is a unique abstraction layer that isolates the source(s) of data from the use of that data in scripting, reporting, form composition, workflows and other interaction components. Using the UDM Designer, IT can easily identify data elements from any other enterprise application or data source and make them available to both IT and business users to define user workflow, integrate applications, and create composite applications, toolbars, scripts, and more.
Visual Application Interrogation
Using Cicero XM Studio, integrators interrogate or examine the interface exposed by an application and to selectively access specific information at a meta-level without requiring a deep knowledge of that application's internal implementation. Once the integrator has selected the information of interest, Cicero XM Studio translates the integration specifications into application Data Providers that can be used in a project with other Data Providers including Web Services and data sources.
Visual Decision Support / Scripting Designer
Built for Business Analysts, Cicero XM Studio includes an easy-to-use script designer that functions similar to Microsoft Word. Users simply type or paste their content in the Designer, add UDM fields and logic for decision support.
Composite Application Designer
Using the drag and drop features of the Composite Application Designer, create new composite applications, dashboards, toolbars, pop-ups and other visual features using elements from the UDM.
Workflow Designer
Define call flow/workflow and automate manual tasks across applications using UDM data elements.
The Cicero XM Studio design and build environment is both flexible and intuitive. Using the designers in Cicero XM Studio you can easily:
- Separate the design and build responsibilities.
- Target the correct implementation skill set.
- Enable team development.
- Control and provide a rapid turnaround for operations.
- Control and ensure the security of enterprise integrations points for IT.
- Support Model View Controller (MVC) architecture.
- Enable offsite development.
Once you have defined your project requirements, you can begin using the Cicero XM Studio Designers to:
- Interrogate legacy applications to create Data Providers.
- Design a United Data Model (UDM).
- Develop domain specific language activities in .NET.
- Build call/work flows using Activities and Rules with the UDM.
- Develop Scripts with dynamic content and workflow control.
- Layout composite screens and toolbars using content from the UDM and mash-up content.
- Design Reports and dashboards using interaction data.
