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. The company also provided advisory and consultancy services, products, and training within the field of object-oriented systems' development. Formed in 1986 by

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, Taskon's expertise was in the area of analysis, design, and implementation of component-based systems. As one of the

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, Taskon helped with the standardization of the

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(UML). The company's flagship product was

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, a software package for the analysis and design of Object-Oriented systems, with support for the role-modeling concept. In addition to providing support for the modeling of complex systems in a highly productive way — encouraging systematic use of object patterns, the product conformed to the UML standard the company helped develop.

Numerica-Taskon

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students, including Gunnar Nordseth and Tor Ivar Byrkjeland. The company's expertise included the development of

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software applications, as well as UML modeling. It was one of the few preferred partners of Rational Rose in Norway. Numerica encountered Taskon during a project for

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, a Norwegian bank. The companies discovered the complementary nature of their technologies, and shortly afterward, they formed ''Numerica-Taskon'' (1999). The following were among the clientele of the new entity: * ABB Group * Veritas *

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* Norges Bank * Norsk Hydro * Postens Godssenter *

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In 2000, a

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company named ''OptoSof AB'' acquired Numerica-Taskon, WinHlp (1993), Mogul Media (1994) and Grape (1997). The result of this merger was Mogul.

Numerica-Taskon

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