The basic idea that initiated the effort for the development of Modo was to create a modeling tool, which is able to model a real life system, its elements and the relations between them.

Modo focuses on the system to be modeled, as it exists. The technological boundaries and constraints, which are only obstacles of the computer systems, are neglected during the modeling process. The model then can be converted to the required technologies. This conversion can be designed to catalyze any software development process, reducing the cycle time of development/maintenance and increasing the quality of the software.

Moreover, Modo is aimed to be a contribution for the ongoing studies for the Semantic Web, which is considered to be the next era of online information delivery (Berners-Lee et al., 2001). Modo models represent entities of real life systems and the relations between them. Thus the system is modeled at the semantic level, and more importantly this model is completely machine-readable. With the help of this property, Modo can act as a common definition language at semantic level and help different systems (online/offline) to be integrated.

All those properties of the language led us to show the effort to develop Modo.