Borland is a leading vendor of Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions that provide the flexibility to manage, measure and improve the software delivery process. Borland offers solutions focusing on processes, such as project and portfolio management, requirements definition and management, lifecycle quality management, model driven development, and software change management.

The company’s products include Borland Tempo software, which includes capabilities for various aspects of project and portfolio management; Borland CaliberRM that manages the evolution of software requirements, as well as the relationship between requirements and documentation, tests, models, and code; Borland Caliber DefineIT, which supports various areas of software requirements definition; and Borland SilkCentral Test Manager, an automated software testing management tool.

Borland’s products also include Borland SilkPerformer, a solution for automated software load, stress, and performance testing in an open and accessible model; Borland SilkTest, a solution for automated functional and regression testing; Borland Gauntlet, a continuous build and test automation product; Borland Together, a family of role-based modeling products; Borland StarTeam, a platform for coordinating and managing the software delivery process; and IDE products that include Delphi, C++Builder, and C#Builder.

The company also offers application middleware that include VisiBroker, a common object request broker architecture; CORBA, a solution for distributed object computing and embedded devices; and Borland Enterprise Server/AppServer Edition, a J2EE 1.3 compliant application server. In addition, it offers process consulting, technology implementation, and education services.

Borland markets its products and services through direct sales force, system integrators, and third-party resellers. Borland Software Corporation was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Borland Key Strengths

• Borland’s vision for open application lifecycle management (ALM) recognizes customers’ need to define, manage and measure their software delivery processes based on their own unique needs. For Borland “Open” implies flexibility and customer choice.
• The value of Borland’s ALM tools lies in their ability to automate key processes in software delivery. Open ALM supports the customer’s established processes, whether waterfall, Agile, RUP or custom.
• Borland’s Open ALM solution enables customers to use any combination of lifecycle tools – commercial and open-source – that they choose, while providing visibility and traceability of assets and activities across them and the phases they support. Their existing investments in tools and practices should be easily incorporated into an overall solution, regardless of vendor origin.
• Borland’s products are developed with the understanding that the majority of enterprises have a degree of technology heterogeneity. The company’s Open ALM supports organizations deploying applications to a broad range of platforms.
• Businesses can’t improve what they can’t measure. Borland’s Open ALM solution works to automate third-party data collection to drive cross-process software delivery metrics and measurement.