Federal Government Overview
Enabling the Federal Government to Perform at its Best
Government agencies spend millions of dollars each year building, integrating and developing software applications that help run this nation. Unfortunately, the vast majority of software projects fail because of a lack of clarity—about roles, responsibilities, and requirements—and an inability to track what is taking place within the different steps of the application lifecycle. This situation is exacerbated by the dynamic nature of government and ongoing change requests.
Nowhere is the challenge to deliver what is possible more profound than inside the federal government. The 2004 Chaos Report published by the Standish Group categorizes approximately 1 in 3 software projects a success. The report also shows that approximately 70 percent of software projects failed to deliver what originally was intended without going over budget, missing the deadline, or sacrificing quality.
Borland provides a customer-centric approach to transforming software delivery into a managed business process called Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Federal customers need the flexibility to define, manage and measure their software delivery processes based on their own existing investments in tools and deployment platforms. With increased pressure on performance, accountability, and budgets, the need for Open ALM has never been greater.
Living in an Age of Federal Scorecards & Standards
As agencies attempt to align business requirements, information, technology infrastructure, and major applications to maximize results, there is a growing list of standards and guidelines to which they must adhere, including:
- Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)- Beginning in January 2006, agencies must set up 17 security controls on all major applications and general support systems. These controls are intended to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. The more important an application or system is to an agency's mission, the stronger the controls must be. Borland's solutions have the tools necessary to document application certification and accreditation required under FISMA.
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Section 508 American's with Disabilities Act-
All Federal agencies are required to make electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. Borland products are 508 certified including Borland Caliber, Borland StarTeam, Borland Together, and they enable compliance tracking of the applications for which they are employed to build.
Accessibility documents by product
- CaliberRM™ (pdf)
- SilkCentral® Test Manager™ (pdf)
- SilkPerformer® (pdf)
- SilkTest® (pdf)
- StarTeam® (pdf)
- Together® Architect (pdf)
- Together® Developer and Together® Designer .NET (pdf)
- Together® Developer and Together® Designer for Eclipse (pdf)
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 300s- Capital investments in information technology must be justified as part of the statutory requirements for Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) by linking the mission, performance objectives, and enterprise architecture of the organization with capital investment objectives. Borland's solutions materially help to make this process efficient and understandable.
- Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA)- The CCA includes Enterprise Architecture standards and provides that government IT be operated as an efficient and profitable business. Acquisition, planning and management of technology must be treated as a "capital investment" with an overall plan for the enterprise. Borland's solutions ensure these requirements are met in a way that improves, not hinders, IT performance for the mission.
Borland technology enables government agencies to improve their processes and efficiencies, by helping to bridge the gap between IT planning and agency organizational performance, thereby minimizing risk, promoting security, ensuring accessibility, and enabling collaboration.
GSA Resellers
Borland works with Spectrum Systems to supply our products and solutions to the federal government through the General Services Administration/Federal Supply Service (GSA/FSS) Schedule.
Spectrum Systems (GS-35F-5192G)
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