NORMA (software modeling tool)

NORMA (Natural ORM Architect for Visual Studio) is a conceptual modeling tool that implements the <a href="/facts/Object-role_modeling/eUsGGWKF">object-role modeling</a> (ORM) method.
The NORMA tool is named after Dr.Terry Halpin's wife Norma Halpin (Terry Halpin, 11am, March 4, 2019)
NORMA is a free and open source plug-in to Microsoft <a href="/facts/Visual_Studio/omNe6Lej">Visual Studio 2005</a>, <a href="/facts/Visual_Studio/omNe6Lej">Visual Studio 2008</a>, <a href="/facts/Visual_Studio/omNe6Lej">Visual Studio 2010</a>, <a href="/facts/Visual_Studio/omNe6Lej">Visual Studio 2012</a>, <a href="/facts/Visual_Studio/omNe6Lej">Visual Studio 2013</a>, <a href="/facts/Visual_Studio_2015/omNe6Lej">Visual Studio 2015</a>, <a href="/facts/Visual_Studio_2017/omNe6Lej">Visual Studio 2017</a> and <a href="/facts/Visual_Studio_2019/omNe6Lej">Visual Studio 2019</a>. 
NORMA supports ORM2 (second generation ORM), and can map object-role models to implementation targets, such as <a href="/facts/Database_management_systems/VYcpkevb">database engines</a>, object-oriented code, and XML schema.
Dr. <a href="/facts/Terry_Halpin/mKz1ow2L">Terry Halpin</a>'s 2008 book, Information Modeling and Relational Databases: From Conceptual Analysis to Logical Design "...explains the ORM2 notation, as supported by the NORMA (Neumont ORM Architect) tool..." (page 10), and "(...)At the time of writing, the NORMA tool provides the most complete support for the ORM2 notation discussed in this book." (Preface, xxv).
He also states: "A modeling method as good as ORM deserves a good CASE tool. Since the early 1990s, talented staff at ServerWare, Asymetrix Corporation, InfoModelers Incorporated,
Visio Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Neumont University worked to develop state of the art CASE tools to support the specific ORM method discussed in this book." (Preface, xxvi)

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