Borland Unveils the Newest Versions of StarTeam® and CaliberRM™, Providing Customers with a Single Source of Truth for Managing Activities and Assets in the Application Lifecycle
Usability Enhancements and Extended Integrations bring Enterprise-Class SCM and Requirements Definition and Management to Heterogeneous Environments
Cupertino, Calif. - Nov 13, 2006 : Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL, www.borland.com) today announced the newest versions of Borland StarTeam® and Borland CaliberRM™ to help customers support, automate and improve their software change management and requirements definition and management processes. The new product versions include a number of enhancements designed to improve usability, extend support for a wide range of platforms and development tools, and improve traceability from business needs to development assets throughout the application lifecycle.
StarTeam, Borland's software change and configuration management offering, and CaliberRM, Borland's enterprise requirements management offering, are core product components within the company's Change Management and Requirements Definition & Management solutions. When combined with Borland's process best practices, StarTeam and CaliberRM can help to automate and coordinate the requirements, resources, activities and digital assets that continuously change in the software delivery process.
"Communicating and managing change is one of the biggest challenges that software organizations face as they seek to deliver higher levels of value and be more responsive to the business," said Marc Brown, senior director of product marketing for Borland. "Our goal is to empower customers to respond more rapidly to changing business demands no matter where their teams are located or how many platforms or applications they're managing. The new enhancements we've made to StarTeam and CaliberRM directly reflect this goal."
The new features within StarTeam and CaliberRM are designed so customers can more effectively view, share, understand and act upon the volumes of requirements and change-related information involved in enterprise application delivery. StarTeam acts as a single source of truth for managing change throughout the application lifecycle by providing a repository for managing development assets, activities and the links between them. CaliberRM is designed to facilitate collaboration, impact analysis, and communication in the specification and management of changing requirements.
"Having a single central repository for consolidating and managing application lifecycle assets and activities is a first step for end-to-end change management solutions," said Melinda Ballou, Program Director, Application Life-Cycle Management Software, IDC. "By integrating core ALM functions such as requirements management and software configuration management users can begin to achieve a coherent, cohesive approach to the application lifecycle to help yield a more responsive, business-focused IT organization."
New functionality in the most recent versions of StarTeam and CaliberRM include:
- Seamless integration of IDE clients into a single "work" environment– In StarTeam 2006, Borland has enhanced integrations with the leading IDEs (Eclipse, Visual Studio, Delphi® and JBuilder®) in an effort to provide a single experience for all users, regardless of their development tool choice. CaliberRM 2006 supports similar integration extensions, providing a consistent view of requirements for users working in different environments.. These integrations allow developers to view detailed requirements in CaliberRM, as well as manage development tasks and digital assets in the StarTeam repository from within their daily work environment.
- Better change management through Compare/Merge enhancements– StarTeam 2006 now includes advanced visual compare/merge functionality that enables team members to view and coordinate work done on different branches of development. It provides the capability for users to compare intersecting files and folders, an essential ability for large and/or distributed teams. These enhancements allow users to perform comparison and merges in a "staging" environment, where the changed application can be built and tested before committing the changes in a single action. This supports the growing use of branch-based development by allowing merges to be done in an intuitive fashion, which reduces the learning curve and the time to productivity for team members.
- Requirements filtering to cut through volumes of change information– CaliberRM includes several improvements to its requirements traceability features to help customers view, analyze and understand the impact of changes in order to make more intelligent decisions faster. CaliberRM's traceability matrix enables users to use a wide variety of criteria (including priority, status, user-defined attributes, owner, creation and modification dates) to determine the impact analysis scope.
- Platform extensions– StarTeam 2006 has added server support for Linux and renewed support for Solaris™. Borland has long supported customers using almost any client platform, bringing world-class ALM products to customers with heterogeneous environments (Windows®, Solaris, Linux).
"Borland StarTeam gives us a solidly architected version control and change management solution," said Scott Green, manager of Engineering Services at Quest Software. "With our old change management system, very little work was being reported on consistently by teams. Now anyone, anytime can produce real-time metrics for their use. Whether it be a vice president, a development manager, or a QA manager, now we can conduct analysis on everything happening from all points of view."
AvailabilityStarTeam 2006 and CaliberRM 2006 are expected to be generally available next month. For more information on StarTeam, visit: http://www.borland.com/us/products/starteam/index.html. For more information on CaliberRM, visit: http://www.borland.com/us/products/caliber/index.html.
About BorlandFounded in 1983, Borland (NASDAQ: BORL) is a global leader in application lifecycle management (ALM), providing solutions that make software delivery a more manageable, efficient and predictable business process. Borland provides the software, services and training that enable companies to achieve Software Delivery Optimization and maximize the business value of software. To learn more about delivering quality software, on time and within budget, visit http://www.borland.com.
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