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• President and Founder of SPEC
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C4ISR and DoDAF
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Professionals Certificate
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Agenda
• Do you use MS Office for systems engineering?
• What are its limitations for systems engineering?
• How does Innoslate replace MS Office for systems
engineering work?
• What else can Innoslate do that MS Office can’t?
• How do Innoslate and MS Office work together?
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Do you use Microsoft Office for
systems engineering?
• The simple answer is yes. We frequently use
this set of publication tools to develop
documents, create presentations, and make
complex calculations.
• Why do you use it? Because it’s likely a set of
tools available to you. It may be the only set of
tools available to you.
• So, what is Microsoft Office missing?
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What are its limitations for systems engineering?
• Each MS Office tool was designed to support the publication process
• Word to create the documents
• PowerPoint to create graphics (diagrams/models)
• Excel to make calculations
• Project to manage the program tasks
• In systems engineering we do all these things too, but we also do much more. We…
• Analyze and derive new requirements and maintain traceability.
• Conduct functional analysis to understand the processes & derive more functional
requirements.
• Conduct simulations to derive performance requirements.
• Conduct risk analyses.
• Note: It’s not that you can’t do many of these things in MS Office; it’s that it takes so much
longer when you don’t have a fully functional SE tool and becomes much more difficult to
verify and validate in the design phase.
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How does Innoslate replace Microsoft
Office for systems engineering work?
• Most of us have been using Office for many years and young
professionals have grown up with it.
• When we designed Innoslate, we wanted to provide some of
the functionality of MS Office but be able to export to Office
for publication.
• Innoslate views that provide Office-like functionality.
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Documents View vs. MS Word
• Innoslate’s
Documents View
enables the user to
create and manage
many different
document types
using built-in and
custom templates.
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Documents View vs. MS Word
• In each document
type, the user can
create Statements and
Requirements that
contain text/graphical
information.
• It also provides for
reuse, traceability,
requirements quality
analysis, baselining, …
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Documents View vs. MS Word
• You can even
autogenerate key
diagrams to
enhance
understanding of
the document
content.
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Diagrams View vs. MS PowerPoint
• Innoslate’s Diagrams View
enables the user to create
and manage many
different diagram types.
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Diagrams View vs. MS PowerPoint
• Innoslate’s Diagrams View
enables the user to create
and manage many different
diagram types.
• Innoslate follows rules that
enable the auto-generation
of other diagram types from
data provided in a diagram.
• Many diagrams come with
rule checkers and other
diagnostics.
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Diagrams View vs. MS PowerPoint
• Innoslate follows rules
that enable the auto-
generation of other
diagram types from data
provided in a diagram.
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Database View vs. MS Excel
• Roll-up available
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Project Management View vs. MS Project
• The PM View provides an
overview of the project
Calendar and key boards.
• Kanban Boards are
included.
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Project Management View vs. MS Project
• Gantt charts can be created
with dependencies.
• Simulators provide dynamic
analysis capabilities.
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What else can Innoslate do that MS Office can’t?
• Discrete Event and Monte Carlo simulation of complex dynamic
models that include cost, schedule, and performance factors
• Test Center with Test Suites that contain Test Cases with status
roll-ups
• Branching and forking
• Redaction
• Compilations View provides means to view any entity type in a
document-like form
• Direct integrations with GitHub (round-trip), MATLAB, and STK
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How do Innoslate and MS Office work together?
• MS Office features not contained in Innoslate
• Innoslate exports to MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Project.
• Use MS Office to create the “pretty” publications you need.
• Store the results as Artifacts in Innoslate. You can use the same
Artifact that contains the Innoslate entities to store the “final”
product.
• Innoslate also provides a “round-trip” with MS Excel.
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Bottom-line: Innoslate is the systems engineer’s office tool!

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