Borland Opens Enterprise Quality Center to Deliver and Showcase Benefits of Open ALM Solutions and Best Practices
New facility demonstrates comprehensive approach to lifecycle quality management
Singapore, Asia Pacific - Mär 21, 2007 : Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL, www.borland.com), the global leader in Open application lifecycle management (ALM), today formally opened an Enterprise Quality Center (EQC) in Singapore as part of an ongoing commitment to deliver high-quality, enterprise-ready software applications to customers worldwide. Beyond ensuring high product quality, Borland will make the EQC available for customers as a software Center of Excellence.
"The consequences of poor software quality are well known, yet quality is still often treated as an afterthought - something addressed late in the development lifecycle," said Rick Jackson, chief marketing officer for Borland Software. "With the creation of the EQC, Borland is showcasing how quality is a shared responsibility across teams and throughout the software delivery lifecycle. By inviting customers to see how we're utilizing our own Open ALM solutions, we're helping them experience first-hand the real-world benefits of a broad set of integrated ALM technologies and a comprehensive approach to software quality."
The EQC will serve as a global center of R&D and support all quality assurance activities across the company's globally distributed development organizations. The facility will emphasize innovation and collaboration - helping to break down barriers between geographically dispersed business, development and QA teams, and utilize Borland's Lifecycle Quality Management solution, with integrations across the company's broad portfolio of Open ALM technologies, to enable a comprehensive and proactive approach to software quality assurance.
The facility will also represent an active "proof of concept" for Borland's Open ALM approach, supporting quality testing practices across multiple platforms, tools and processes. This will allow Borland, its customers and its partners to demo and cost-effectively pilot and evaluate ALM technologies, product integrations and implementations.
Center of ExcellenceThe EQC will serve as Borland's software quality Center of Excellence, elevating software quality testing to a focused and uniform process across organizations. The facility will provide an infrastructure for incorporating quality into the software application lifecycle from the very beginning. It will also help to drive continuous process improvements throughout the software delivery lifecycle and promote the adoption of products and best practices that automate and simplify testing functions.
The facility is designed to prepare all Borland products for "enterprise readiness" by providing quality assurance testing in the areas of regression, performance, scalability, integration, standards compliance, security and usability. The development and ongoing operations of the EQC are led by Krithika Swaminathan, senior director of Engineering Services for Borland.
Investment in Asia PacificSingapore is a key global market for Borland. It was selected as the site for the EQC because of Borland's existing IT infrastructure, high-quality talent pool and proximity to other key global markets, such as Japan, China, India and Australia. Borland's key customers and partners in Asia include Visa, Hexaware, Deutsche Bank, Nanyang Polytechnic, China Mobile, NEC, National Computer Systems and Singapore Computer Systems (SCS).
SCS, a leading IT service provider, is a customer and reseller of Borland's Open ALM solutions. According to Jeremy Ong, vice president, Commercial Sector for SCS, "Borland's EQC enables our shared customers to see Open ALM technologies in action and learn best practices for managing and delivering the real-time visibility and control necessary to help ensure the success of software projects."
About BorlandFounded in 1983, Borland (NASDAQ: BORL) 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. To learn more about maximizing the business value of software, visit http://www.borland.com.
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