Founded in 1983, Borland is the leading vendor of Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions - open to customers’ processes, tools and platforms - providing the flexibility to manage, measure and improve the software delivery process.

In 2006, Borland’s executive team made the decision to transition its globally distributed development organization to Agile as part of an effort to reduce development costs, boost efficiency and quality, and introduce more operational oversight. Today, more than 60 percent of Borland’s development teams are Agile. Through this transformation, Borland has increased the productivity and morale of its teams, forged deeper relationships with its most valuable customers, and has become a more adaptive, responsive and predictable delivery organization.

Like most organizations undertaking a large-scale Agile shift, Borland faced a major process renovation while still needing to execute on an aggressive product roadmap. As Borland began to scale its Agile efforts across an organization with more than 350 developers in five geographic locations, teams needed a better way to collaborate, share information and mange their work. At the same time, management needed visibility in order to establish a baseline for performance and be able to measure the progress and benefits of the transition to Agile.

Borland answered this need by developing and implementing a set of products that support enterprises in managing, executing and measuring the transition to more effective software delivery processes – including Agile. The result was Borland® Management Solutions (BMS): three products and a set of service packages that help software delivery organizations align development efforts with business priorities, improve overall organizational performance and gain confidence in their ability to consistently deliver quality results.

“Borland continues to make progress and achieve milestones in our transformation to an innovative, profitable leader in the ALM sector,” said Tod Nielsen, president and CEO of Borland. “We are encouraged by early customer feedback that our newly released Borland Management Solutions can help solve their most challenging problems.”

Borland Key Strengths

• The Borland® StarTeam® defect tracking solution is a fully integrated, cost-effective software change and configuration management tool, designed for both centralized and geographically distributed software development environments. With Borland StarTeam, small-to-medium sized businesses and enterprises get a complete range of software change and configuration management capabilities in one integrated platform that supports development teams of all sizes.
• Borland has received broad recognition for technology excellence. The company prides itself in its willingness to fight for customer choice, serving the interest of its customers first, not the platform or service agendas promoted by many IT vendors. Borland remains committed to extending integrations between tools – Borland and third-party and open source – to automate, support and improve the software delivery process.
• Borland offers solutions that are platform-agnostic, so customers can freely choose between Microsoft® .NET Framework, J2EE, Eclipse, and major Java™ application environments. Partnerships with top technology and services companies, as well as systems integrators such as Accenture, EDS and CapGemini, underscore the company’s commitment to Open Application Lifecycle Management and helping customers transform software delivery into a managed business process.
• Borland’s Agile Transformation solution platform was named one of 2008’s Top IT Projects by InfoWorld Magazine. The award recognizes Borland’s Agile Transformation as an IT project that exemplifies intelligent, creative use of technology to meet business and technical objectives.