Logic Works Inc. was a software company created by CEO Benjamin C. Cohen based in
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was established on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township, both of whi ...
. Their flagship product was an
IDEF1X
Integration DEFinition for information modeling (IDEF1X) is a data modeling language for the development of semantic data models. IDEF1X is used to produce a graphical information model which represents the structure and semantics of informati ...
modeling and database design tool
called ER''win''
(ERwin) whose name is formed from an initialism of ER for Entity Relationship and "win", short for windows. The company also produced BP''win'' (for business process modeling using
IDEF0
IDEF0, a compound acronym ("Icam DEFinition for Function Modeling", where ICAM is an acronym for "Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing"), is a function modeling methodology for describing manufacturing functions, which offers a functional model ...
), ModelMart and TestBytes.
The company went public in October 1995 with an
IPO of 3.2 million shares at $11, and was traded on the
NASDAQ
The Nasdaq Stock Market () (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Stock Market) is an American stock exchange based in New York City. It is the most active stock trading venue in the US by volume, and ranked second ...
under the symbol LGWX until its eventual sale.
In 1998, Logic Works was acquired by
Platinum Technology for $174.8 million in stock, which was in turn acquired by
Computer Associates
CA Technologies, formerly known as CA, Inc. and Computer Associates International, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in New York City. It is primarily known for its business-to-business (B2B) software with a product p ...
the next year.
In 2016, erwin, Inc. was launched as an independent company.
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See also
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Platinum Technology
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AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler
erwin Data Modeler (stylized as erwin but formerly as ERwin) is computer software for data modeling. Originally developed by Logic Works, erwin has since been acquired by a series of companies, before being spun-off by the private equity firm Par ...
erwin, Inc.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States
Software companies established in 1988
Companies disestablished in 1998
Companies based in New Jersey