• Load information from external sources
• Manage needs, user stories, requirements and a product backlog
• Analyse the user needs, optionally with models (MBSE)
• Define the design constraints
• Define the architecture, optionally with models
• Create the design, optionally with models
• Define and track tests, issues and defects at all levels
• Manage user acceptance and system validation
• Conduct traceability and coverage analyses across all information in the entire lifecycle or any part of it
• Publish documentation with user-defined layouts and templates
• Manage work breakdown structures and user task lists, record actual progress, and link bi-directionally to project planning tools
• Reuse and share information between projects

2.Load Information

      You load information into the database by parsing documents, loading spreadsheets, importing from files or other tools, and entering data manually.

3.Create New Items, Queries or Views

      You work with the information, creating new items in each agile sprint or development phase. You can define queries to find information and views to present it as lists, tables, documents or trees. You can add your own commands into these views to help you work more efficiently.

4.Generate Data, Cross References, Hierarchies  

      You create and manipulate cross references between items by drag-and-drop and through hierarchy diagrams and matrices.

5.Analyse and Control Your Data

      You use Cradles tools to analyse the content of information for quality and consistency (both text and models). You analyse the traceability and coverage of information using tables, matrices, and graphical hierarchy diagrams.

6.Publish

      Publish information from your user-defined reports, or as documents defined by templates that have your organisation's standard layouts and formatting. You can track every item in the database into every word of these documents, ensuring that when the database changes, you re-issue the correct project documentation.

All Cradle products are:

• Multi-lingual, both for their UIs and the information that you can store in them
• Fully supported on Windows and Linux with complete interoperability between these platforms
• Open and extensible
• Integrated with Microsoft Office and a range of other common desktop tools
• Robust and secure, having received independent security accreditation compliant with CESG information assurance standards