About PHENOM Portal

Not Just another Modeling Tool

The Skayl team has been practicing this form of data modeling since 2011...before Skayl even existed. Our team worked together on a project developing the modeling technology as well as an initial model. After one particular model update cycle, a couple of million dollars worth of work was lost. A minor change in the model resulted in the need to reproduce a lot of work. To make matters worse, this could have been avoided with some specialized tooling. Thus the idea of PHENOM was born. At that moment, we committed to make sure this amount of loss would not occur again.

Skayl did not aspire to be a tool vendor. We developed the tool we needed to data model and decided to share it with others. PHENOM has continued to grow as our customer needs change.

The Initial Release of PHENOM

The original PHENOM release was based on the idea of "one domain specific data model per server." Skayl envisioned hosting many different DSDMs for different purposes. One server would exist for the Aerospace and Defense community. Another server would exist for medical technology, etc. It wasn't long before users wanted to upload their own models and import their own content. Thus the tool (and our vision for us) started to evolve.

Release Cycle

We’re constantly working to improve and extend PHENOM, both the software and the underlying data models and content. We are always making little tweaks to make things simpler for you, but of course, we have major new feature additions planned as well.

Your Dashboard will list the most recent updates made, and we’ll send out emails when there is major update available. Of course, if you use the Skayl-hosted version of PHENOM, the updates will automatically appear the next time you login. If you are an enterprise user, your IT department will periodically update your PHENOM instance to the latest version.