Tuesday, 18. April 2006
Borland Adds Requirements Definition and Management Solution
Borland has unveiled a new solution that the company claims will help organizations improve their processes for defining and managing software requirements. Borland's new Requirements Definition and Management solution packages customized process improvement and training services with new products to facilitate the elicitation, analysis, specification, validation and management of requirements.
As part of this new solution, Borland also introduced Caliber DefineIT, a new requirements definition product that is aimed at letting analysts visually specify functional requirements, execute graphical storyboards, model use cases and scenarios, and automatically generate the necessary test cases for validating quality within the software lifecycle. These capabilities are intended to help close the communications gap between business and IT, enabling customers to get requirements right from the very beginning.
"No single factor is responsible for more wasted effort, rework, or failed projects than inadequate requirements," stated Carl Zetie of Forrester Research in a January 2006 research report. "For many companies, improving the communication of requirements between IT and business managers-both gathering the requirements from the business and confirming understanding to the business-is the single improvement with the biggest measurable impact."
The Borland Requirements Definition and Management solution will be available in early May.
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