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CaseTalk is a conceptual modeling tool that implements the method FCO-IM (Fully Communication Oriented Information modeling Homepage of FCO-IM). It uses natural language in the form of fact expressions with concrete examples to build a conceptual information model. This conceptual model can then be transformed into various technological notations, such as scripts for database creation. These expressions can be considered as business assertions.

E.g.: The fact "John Doe lives in New York." is an example for "City of residence". These expressions form the conceptual information model from which databases (and other technology artifacts) may be created.

The early research prototype 'FCO-IM CASE Tool' was developed at 'HAN University' in the Netherlands in the 90's and beyond Publications. The professional maintenance and support was handed over to a small company called BCP Software in 2001 and made it available under the name CaseTalk. CaseTalk is the only maintained and supported CASE tool that supports FCO-IM. Alternative methods of Fact Oriented Modeling are CogNIAM and ORM which come with their own tools such as DocTool and NORMA by Terry Halpin.

CaseTalk in Publications

• Dutch educational tutorial
• From CaseTalk to a database in SQLite studio
• Constraints in CaseTalk
• Research Publication by Marleen de Mul about Managing Quality in Health Care: Involving Patient Care Information Systems and Healthcare Professionals in Quality Monitoring and Improvement
• Book expouning strucure and method of FCO-IM referencing CaseTalk for excellent implementation.
• Rosedata Stone by Steve Hoberman
• Fact Oriented Modeling with FCO-IM
• The MetaData Frame in Action (2) by Peter Alons
• FCO-IM (nl) FCO-IM is als standaard ingevoerd bij onder meer Origin BMS/Amsterdam en Sandia National Laboratories in de USA en wordt inmiddels breed onderwezen in het hoger onderwijs. De methode uit dit boek wordt ondersteund door het CASE-tool CaseTalk
• Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering
• Simulation Conceptual Modeling By Jeffrey Strickland
• Information Quality, talking about it helps (nl) by Peter Alons and Rob Arntz
• Training in FOM using CaseTalk
• Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies by Giurca, Adrian
• Information Modeling and Relational Databases by [[Terry_Halpin | Terry Halpin], Tony Morgan
• | Advances in FCO-IM (1) Research paper referencing CaseTalk
• | Advances in FCO-IM (2) Research paper referencing CaseTalk
• | FCO-IM (1) FCO-IM Tutorial using CaseTalk.
• | Educational Presentation on FCO-IM using CaseTalk as implementation tool. It explains the advantages of FCO-IM over e.g. ERM.

Books

• Book expounding structure and method of FCO-IM referencing to use CaseTalk. The Dutch software company BCP Software brings their FCO-IM tool CaseTalk in three editions: a Book Edition (free) an Educational Edition (free for university students and lecturers all over the world) and a Professional Edition
• Rosedata Stone by Steve Hoberman. CaseTalk is the most popular tool that supports FCO-IM. ... Once the BTM is complete in CaseTalk, it can generate different types of databse structures such as spreadsheets, relational, XML and JSON.
• Fact Oriented Modeling with FCO-IM . CaseTalk Modeler is an excellent modeling tool that implements almost everything in this book.
• Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering Various software tools support different flavours of the fact-oriented approach. ... The FCO-IM version is supported by the commercial tool CaseTalk.
• Simulation Conceptual Modeling By Jeffrey Strickland. Various software tools exist to enter ORM schemas and generate relational databse schemas. These include Microsoft Visio for Enterprise Architects, ... CaseTalk .. and NORMA.
• Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies by Giurca, Adrian. Many commercial and academic tools that support ORM solutions are available, including the ORM solution within Microsoft's Visio for Enterprise Architects, NORMA, CaseTalk, ..
• Information Modeling and Relational Databases by [[Terry_Halpin | Terry Halpin], Tony Morgan. The FCO-IM version is supported by the commercial tool CaseTalk ...

The founders of FCO-IM wrote a Dutch book explaining the method.

• Guido Bakema, Jan Pieter Zwart, Harm van der Lek Volledig Communicatie-georiënteerde Informatie-modellering (isbn 90-267-2316-4)
• An English edtion has been made available as a free e-Book. It is available for downloads from FCO-IM and CaseTalk or the ORM Foundation ORM Foundation.

A more revised book has been published in 2015. "This book offers a complete basic course in Fully Communication Oriented Information Modeling (FCO-IM), a Fact Oriented Modeling (FOM) data modeling technique. ... The book also illustrates how data models in other techniques can be derived from an elementary FCO-IM model. ... The powerful software tool CaseTalk supports everything covered here." (back cover).

• Jan Pieter Zwart, Marco Engelbart, Stijn Hoppenbrouwers Fact Oriented Modeling with FCO-IM - Capturing business semantics in data models with fully communication oriented information modeling (isbn 978-1-63462-086-4)

Educational

• Fact Oriented Modeling Training "FOM as a method is described completely in the book Fully Communication Oriented Information Modeling, and further elucidated in the accompanying book with exercises and cases. The method is fully supported in conformity with the theory by CaseTalk, the FOM Casetool of BCP Software. FOM is cornerstone of the Information Management Frame. This Frame is described in the book About Facts and Things."
• FCO-IM Tutorial (1) "Now, you can do it manually or you can use a tool like CaseTalk. ... Below, I have used CaseTalk to identify ... "
• Fact-Oriented Modeling in ERM and FCO-IM "Better FOM technique: FCO-IM and CaseTalk", (slides 54..61)

Dutch pages

• Dutch tutorial
• From CaseTalk to a database in SQLite studio
• Constraints in CaseTalk "This document describes how you add constraints in a Casetalk Diagram in the correct way."

Research

• Research Publication by Marleen de Mul about | Managing Quality in Health Care: Involving Patient Care Information Systems and Healthcare Professionals in Quality Monitoring and Improvement "Expression tree in CaseTalk for the fact type Real-time measurement with result", "Multidimensional modeling with tools such as CaseTalk and Oracle Designer, was necessary considering the magnitude and complexity of the DWH."
• Advances in FCO-IM (1) "Therefore, an FCO-IM modeling tool such as CaseTalk cannot be a trivial ‘drag and drop’ drawing tool: it is a sophisticated interface upon the FCO-IM metadata repository ..."
• Advances in FCO-IM (2) "BCP Software: CaseTalk, FCO-IM modeling tool"

Magazines

• The MetaData Frame in Action (2) by Peter Alons
• FCO-IM (nl) FCO-IM is als standaard ingevoerd bij onder meer Origin BMS/Amsterdam en Sandia National Laboratories in de USA en wordt inmiddels breed onderwezen in het hoger onderwijs. De methode uit dit boek wordt ondersteund door het CASE-tool CaseTalk
• Information Quality, talking about it helps (nl) by Peter Alons and Rob Arntz