Borland Application Lifecycle Management Solutions

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 ALM 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.

Borland Defect Tracking 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.

Borland QA Testing Key Strengths

• Borland SilkCentral Test Manager is a powerful all-inclusive software test management tool that builds quality and productivity into your testing process, speeding the delivery of successful software projects while minimizing the risks of application failures. The Borland solution consolidates all of the critical software testing phases within a single, scalable, Web-based testing system, enabling your local and distributed software development teams to share experiences, resources and critical information.
• Borland SilkCentral Test Manager integrates with other Borland tools and technologies, as well as third-party application lifecycle management tools, ensuring that software testing becomes a well-managed process that spans your entire software development life cycle (SDLC) and aligns your business and development priorities.
• SilkCentral Test Manager promotes collaboration among quality assurance, development and line-of business managers; improves quality by providing clear visibility into the testing process; and creates new efficiencies that shorten release cycles and raise the bar for software quality.
• If (and when) you want to leverage expanded capabilities of enterprise software configuration management systems, SilkCentral is tightly integrated with Borland StarTeam as well as other popular defect-tracking systems.
• Year after year, Borland receives 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’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.