SML is an important step to drive significant, cross-platform business modeling improvements for IT professionals and their business platforms.
SML provides an industry-agreed foundation for model-based management. SML allows developers to build modeling information for applications, devices and services that can be used during all stages of applications or service lifecycle including configuration, problem, change and release management.
As a common modeling language, SML simplifies IT management in multi-vendor environments. This provides a way for information to be shared across diverse tools and applications. It reduces both the cost and complexity associated with delivering the levels of service and responsiveness businesses need from IT today.
The SML-tooling plug-in provide an editor for an SML-IF document. The tool also provided the ability to import SML-IF document into a project and export SML model units to an SML-IF document. The SML-IF packages the collection of SML documents to be interchanges as a single XML document. All SML-IF documents conform to the XML Schema defined in by the SML-IF specification.