Both toolsets were developed by the Research and Competence Group Data Architectures & Metadata Management of the HAN University of Applied Sciences in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
The method has proven its value, and is still actively used in multiple large-scale corporate environments.
Branches covered vary from retail, logistics (KLM,[1] ProRail[2]), banking, insurance to medical companies (Erasmus MC[3]).
There are two main reasons why FCO-IM claims to be "fully communication-oriented".
[5] From investigating the UoD, facts can be expressed in natural language using concrete examples.