Introduction
Welcome
Welcome to the Sidekick Help file! Here you will find useful information on how to install, configure, and use Sidekick to review and collaborate on GENESYS MBSE model content.
For the most up-to-date version, please reference: http://sidekick-help.vitechcorp.com
What is Sidekick?
Sidekick is a powerful web-based collaboration and review companion to GENESYS, Vitech’s flagship full-featured model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tool.
In traditional MBSE environments, accessing and understanding model data has often been limited to systems engineers. This creates barriers for broader project stakeholders who need to engage with the model but lack the tools, access, or training to do so. These barriers include:
Native data access barriers: Viewing model data typically requires a license, user account, and project permissions—each involving IT overhead and licensing costs. This typically limits access to a small group of trained users.
Model Complexity barriers: MBSE models can be vast and intricate, making it difficult for anyone outside the core modeling team to locate and interpret relevant information.
Terminology, iconology, and jargon barriers: MBSE uses domain-specific terminology, diagramming standards like SysML, and iconography that can be confusing to non-systems engineers.
Limitations to data export quality: Reports generated from models may be of unknown provenance, version, or quality, reducing trust and usability.
Sidekick was designed to not only eliminate these barriers but enhance understandability of MBSE data.
Sidekick empowers all stakeholders to access, review, collaborate, and make decisions real-time on information contained within a GENESYS MBSE model - all in an intuitive format and user interface that does not require any special training, knowledge of systems engineering, or understanding of SysML jargon.
The goal of Sidekick is to democratize access to MBSE data for everyone, regardless of background or domain expertise and to do so in a way that is understandable because at the end of the day, it is humans that must make informed project decisions, and those decisions can only be properly informed if there is a consistent understanding of the latest relevant information.