Information Engineering Facility
The IEF (Information Engineering Facility) was the first name of a full lifecycle computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tool, which has now gone through three different owners (Texas Instruments, Sterling Software and CA) and several different names (IEF, Composer by IEF, Composer, COOL:Gen, Advantage Gen, AllFusion Gen and, in 2007, CA Gen).
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