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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Corner

Feature Story

Borland in the News

Customer Spotlight

Events

Resources

 

Executive Corner

Dear Valued Customer,

In my experiences over the years, I’ve seen the typical IT organization spends millions procuring best-of-breed software development tools designed to increase the predictability and success rate of software delivery projects. However, I’m sure most of you can attest to the fact that delivering software that lives up to its initial promise is still rarely achieved. Project cancellations and failures have become ubiquitous. Cost overruns, schedule slippages,
low quality and poor reliability have become disturbing
norms in the software industry.

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The Current State Of Software Quality

By Frank J. Fanzilli Jr.
Optimize
March 2007, Issue 65

Poor quality is at the root of much of what's wrong with software today, and Frank J. Fanzilli Jr., says we need to switch to a breakthrough, holistic, cross-life-cycle approach to software quality.

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Borland In the News   Customer Spotlight

Performance Testing Improves Sigma-Aldrich's Web Site Quality

ALM Inches a Step Closer to Application Security

Borland Spins New Silk

Borland Opens Enterprise Quality Center to Deliver and Showcase Benefits of Open ALM Solutions and Best Practices

Borland Extends Lifecycle Quality Management Solution with New Innovations Across Silk™ Product Line

More Borland In the News

 

Sigma-Aldrich

Learn how Sigma-Aldrich leveraged the Borland Lifecycle Quality Management solution to improve overall website reliability and performance and eliminate bottlenecks and errors in pre-production:

“Our site is highly dynamic. The flexibility provided by Borland SilkPerformer helps us efficiently and accurately test our catalog and order management applications for potential performance bottlenecks or outages in pre-deployment, which ensures we consistently deliver the highest levels of quality to our customers.”

- Rich Porter
Website Administrator at Sigma-Aldrich

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Interested in having your Borland implementation showcased in the Customer Spotlight?
Email: customers@borland.com

Events   Resources

Live Events & Webcasts

Webcast: Eliminating the Build Barrier to Continuous Integration and Test

Date:  Thursday, June 7, 2007, duration:  1 hour
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET

Register Today

Requirements Based Testing: Testing What Matters
Seminar in Los Angeles, CA

Date: Thursday, June 14, 2007
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Register Today

Performance Testing:
Don’t let Poor Quality Software Cost You
Seminar Series in Canada

Date: Wednesday, June 13 – Vancouver, BC
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Date: Thursday, June 14 – Calgary, AB
Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Register Today

On Demand Webcasts

Define before you Manage: Why Requirements Definition is a Critical First Step

In this webcast, Forrester Senior Analyst Carey Schwaber will explain how you can build agreement around requirements right from the start, so there are no uncertainties down the road.

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Borland Webcast on Project and Resource Management:  Attaining Visibility and Control

In this webcast, common problems, proven solutions, and recommended considerations for implementing a project and resource management solution will be covered.

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Lifecycle Quality Management

Development Intelligence: Business Intelligence for Software Development

Think you know where your projects stand?  In this Ovum white paper you’ll learn how to apply business intelligence best practices to software development.    With a Development Intelligence approach you can get real-time visibility into all your projects, so you can make decisions based on facts—not educated guesses.

Requirements Definition and Management

Successful Projects Begin with Well–Defined Requirements

Don’t just manage requirements—define them accurately upfront. Read how to capture the right requirements without relying on word docs or emails, reduce validation cycles using storyboarding and build test scenarios that actually map to the needs of end users.

Change Management

AQS, Inc. Customer Story

Learn how AQS, Inc. used Borland® StarTeam® to dramatically improve efficiency and achieve a 30% reduction in rebuilds.

Project and Portfolio Management

Succeeding at Major Information Technology Initiatives

Discover how Project and Portfolio Management lets you dramatically reduce the risks and increase the net benefits realized by major IT initiatives by approaching each as a portfolio of smaller self-justified projects around a common theme.


Podcasts & White Papers

ALM 2.0 era ushers application development into a managed business process

Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect
Date posted: May 1st 2007

“…new trends are unfolding in ALM, called ALM 2.0, to help organizations transform software development and deployment into a managed business process.”

Unlocking The Full Value Of Managed Software Delivery

Discover how Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is emerging as a promising approach to improving the software delivery process.  With Borland's Open ALM solutions, customers can now benefit from an optimized ALM platform, with the advantages of a fully connected, managed and measurable software delivery process.

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