How do you manage the growing complexity of software development? Is your software development organization as responsive to your business needs as it could be? Borland Core SDP enables your IT organization to transform software development into a managed business process, maximizing and accelerating both team and individual contributions. A customizable, process- and role-centric software delivery platform, Borland Core SDP offers greater control of and visibility into the software development process. The result is greater efficiencies and predictability over the software you deliver.
Maximize the Business Value of Software Over the years, the strategic importance of software has risen exponentially. As a result, the number of people, processes, and technologies involved in software development projects has increased, leading to more IT complexity and potential roadblocks to success. Statistics show that approximately one-third of all projects are canceled, three-quarters are completed late, and more than half fail to meet original requirements. For all teams, working together effectively on common ground is challenging. With more stakeholders involved often around the globe the communication gaps occur not only along business, technical, and operations lines, but also around the sharing of tasks by job function. Software Delivery Optimization is about aligning the people, processes, and technology required to maximize the business value of your software transforming your software development from an art form into a managed business process. Whether you already have processes in place or are just getting started, only you know the daily tradeoffs you are making to deliver software on time, within budget, with all of the features at acceptable quality. Borland provides software and services that enable you to structure software development as a managed business process, so that you can make software delivery trade-offs with greater efficiency and predictability. Software Delivery Optimization allows your enterprise to maximize business opportunities, directing requirements and priorities downstream using a unique process- and role-centric approach. By converging management and software delivery processes, your development team can increase its overall success rate across projects, and your operations team can more effectively transition software services to end users.
We have been working closely with Borland on improving quality in our development processes at Iberia. Borland was the only vendor able to offer us a state-of-the-art complete application lifecycle management solution, that we could integrate with our existing systems, and that also did not lock us in to any technology or platform. Borland was the only vendor who could demonstrate an efficient solution, based on open standards, that met all of our requirements in our software quality program. Luis Mariano Casado, Methodology Director, Iberia Airlines
Introducing Borland Core SDP for Software Delivery Optimization A platform for application lifecycle management, Borland Core SDP allows your IT organization to manage software development as a business process. By delivering a customizable, process-centric software development environment that maximizes team and individual contributions across specialized roles, you achieve greater visibility and control, leading to greater efficiencies and predictability. No matter what type of development is required build, customize, modernize, or integrate Borland Core SDP optimizes your software development organization s ability to manage the perennial constraints of delivering quality software within schedule, scope, and budget amid constant change. Process-Centric Are you continually striving to get your software development organization to build on its experience and improve its results based on past successes and failures? Are you beginning or engaged in a process improvement program, such as CMMI or Six Sigma? If so, you already understand the value of putting processes in place to learn from the past in order to charge more confidently into the future. Whether you have existing processes in place or are just starting to develop them, Borland understands that your competitive advantage is in your key, proprietary processes and your ability to continue to author, adapt, and adopt new processes. Borland Core SDP provides a process-centric approach to development with rules-based engines across individual development roles that drive process discipline and improvement across all types of development projects and development organizations whether you have distributed, offshore, outsourced, or remote teams. Role-Centric Does your development organization effectively communicate across job functions? If not, why? Could it be that individual roles in your software development organization lack the specialized tools to support their job function and to extend their visibility to other parts of the software lifecycle? Borland Core SDP provides an optimized environment by software development process, job function, and cross-role (business and technical) interaction to bring individual and team productivity to a new level. With Borland Core SDP, specific software development tasks and roles are not relegated to points in time across a project, but rather each role has visibility into the entire process and control over the steps he or she manages or influences. To drive software portfolio value and improve IT productivity, a great change needs to occur in tools and development process. IT groups need the same types of facilities that they have produced for the business systems, such as software delivery optimization, that bridge the gaps between management, software development, and operations teams. This transformation will do for software development what ERP did to the process of manufacturing. Thomas Murphy Vice President, Meta Group
A Closer Look: Borland Core SDP Foundation At the foundation of Borland Core SDP is a central repository, accessible to all roles in your software development organization. This comprehensive management platform optimizes information flow across the development lifecycle, allowing team members to effectively interface around common tasks and activities. Borland Core SDP manages and secures software assets and deliverables across a distributed environment, so that inputs from across the globe can be effectively consolidated and coordinated to meet business expectations, quality benchmarks, compliance mandates (e.g. HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II), and process maturity levels (e.g. Six Sigma, ISO 9000 and CMMI). Borland Core SDP provides the following capabilities: Project Management: Easily viewed reports, graphs, dashboards, and other analytical data provide insight into resource allocation, change requests, potential defects, and task management. With enhanced access to information, managers can better track project status, gather metrics, and perform accurate impact analysis. Access to real-time and historical data enables more accurate project forecasts to manage scope, resources, and time-to-market. Requirements Management: Complete, integrated environment for managing requirements from definition to design to implementation. Multiuser capabilities built around Internet-based communication ensure a centralized, global view of requirements at any given time. Automatic change request notification keeps team members informed of updates, improving responsiveness. Asset Management: Manage and protect critical software assets in a central repository with full version and access control, enabling access, sharing, and reuse across the organization. Change Management: Define change requests by type such as defect, enhancement, or suggestion and individually version and manage them for tracking to resolution. Easily verify that requested changes have been made and responsible parties notified, so teams remain responsive and agile. Task Management: Create and manage tasks including allowing individuals to easily create work records of actual time spent per task that can be synchronized with Microsoft Project to verify that projects are progressing on schedule. Software Configuration Management: Simplify build and release management processes. Builds can be easily produced with the correct components, while enabling parallel development tracks.
A Closer Look: Role-Centric Solutions Borland Core SDP is a configurable process management infrastructure, offering individual perspectives from analysts to architects to developers to testers to meet the needs of and maximize the individual contribution of each specialized IT role. CORE::ANALYST IS AN INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT FOR COMPREHENSIVE REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT. Ensures all requirements are correctly captured from all stakeholders Provides a clear, accurate understanding of requirements across team members Manages change and clarifies the impact of change requests BORLAND CORE SDP CORE::ARCHITECT IS AN INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT FOR DESIGN AND MODELING. Ensures applications are designed to meet business requirements while still operating effectively within existing infrastructure Makes it easy for technical and nontechnical team members to understand and work with design concepts Future-proofs applications to keep pace with evolving technology and changing requirements CORE::DEVELOPER IS AN INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT. Enables full access to clearly defined requirements, enabling software engineers to meet business needs and conform to architectural guidelines Keeps projects progressing to schedule through automation of routine tasks and more efficient development Reduces the learning curve for new developers and technologies CORE::TESTER IS AN INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT FOR TESTING APPLICATIONS. Ensures applications meet end-user requirements and conform to quality standards for software delivery success Ensures applications are thoroughly tested against functional requirements Ensures conformance to coding standards Keeps track of defects to ensure critical issues are resolved before deployment CORE SDP FOUNDATION Optimizes information flow across the development lifecycle with an integrated management console Increases efficiencies with an interface of common tasks and activities across the team Protects software investments by ensuring that projects can be readily reproduced and that knowledge is not lost in the event of staff turnover Reduces administrative tasks so team members can focus on more productive activities
The Borland Core SDP Advantage With Borland Core SDP, Borland is delivering on its promise of Software Delivery Optimization by providing a platform and services to help you align your teams, technology, and processes toward successful project delivery, in a repeatable fashion. Borland Core SDP is designed to support large, distributed teams, as well as smaller, nimble organizations seeking a more process-oriented approach. Borland Core SDP is unique in its approach, delivering a platform for competitive advantage for your enterprise. Ease of Use: Borland Core SDP is optimized for the processes, perspectives, and needs of the expert roles within your development team. The high-performance and scalable platform is easy to use, reducing cultural adoption and training costs, and addressing the process and communications challenges associated with distributed development. Ease of Administration: Borland Core SDP includes a unified installer and requires minimal installation effort. In production, Borland Core SDP requires fewer administrators and fewer server resources to configure and run than competing solutions. Integrated Lifecycle: Borland Core SDP drives efficiency across the entire software development lifecycle. As a result, common tasks and activities for each role in the development organization are tightly integrated using best-in-class Borland tools. No Lock-in: Borland Core SDP is a standards-based environment, allowing your enterprise to continue to leverage existing platforms and services for higher return on your technology investments. Process Configurability: Customized processes are at the heart of your business competitive advantage. Borland Core SDP provides your organization with the ability to author and automate custom processes, as well as drive those process-based workflows on definition. In partnership with our customers, Borland is committed to helping IT organizations achieve increased control and visibility over their end-to-end software lifecycle, which ultimately will translate into increased predictability and IT efficiency.
The Borland ALM solution provides our team with increased control over the development process crucial in our enterprise with hundreds of development team members. The Borland solution delivers a truly integrated approach to development, enabling management of all our digital artifacts, including requirements. Steve Morling, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies
Partner with Borland for Success A global leader in platform-independent application lifecycle management solutions, Borland partners with customers to help them achieve increasing levels of Software Delivery Optimization. Borland has more than 1,400 employees worldwide and operations in more than 20 countries serving over 95 percent of global 2000 companies with best-in-class solutions. Award-Winning Software: Year after year, Borland receives broad industry recognition for its CaliberRM, Together, JBuilder, Optimizeit, and StarTeam solutions. With these products, as well as Borland Core SDP, we continue to fight for customer choice, eliminating the risk of technology lock-in. Value-Added Services: Leveraging more than 20 years of best practices and expertise, Borland offers education, consulting, implementation, and technical support services to our customers and partners worldwide. Strategic Partners: Borland is the only proven vendor truly supporting choice by offering solutions that are platform-agnostic, working in combination with strategic global and regional systems integrators. Borland is committed to enabling you to cost effectively transform your software delivery processes, with minimum risk and maximum ROI. To learn more about Borland Core SDP, please visit www.borland.com.
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